Help with tramadol

[DavidStayzFadedd]

Hey i have a serious question about tramadol and oxycodone. ok i have a screw through my hip and femur bone so i have chronic pain. ive been on tons of diff. pain meds after my surgery. but then stopped for a bit. anyways i was prescribed 120 tramadol 50 mgs and told to take as needed for hip pain. taking three of them actually made me feel a bit high and itchy but didnt help with pain so next time we got my dr to prescribe oxycodone 5 mg pills. they gave me 40 a month at first. taking 2 -3 pills a day really helped my pain so sumtimes i would run out a little early. so my mom suggested to the doctor we go up on the amount of pils. the dr was being ivestigated by the dea and got mad at me and refused to right anymore oxy after i had been on it for 6 months. so i asked her for atleast sum tramadol and she gave me them.. the tramadol didnt work so good so i ussually had to take 4 - 8 and i always ran out early. but next time the dr upped my dose to 4 tramadols 50 mg each day. i started taking like 8 a day cuz that was what helped the pain. at first it made me high but it went away very fast after a few days of taking 8 a day.sumtimes it would make me throw up. anyways i continued taking 4-8 tramadols every day for 5 months. when i had no tramadol i would buy oxy off tha street, sumtimes tar to smoke, (rarely), and ussually i had a supply of 4 mg dilaudids which i took or snorted. when i didnt hav anything else sumtimes i took 10 mg methadone pills or went to the er to get a script for 30-50 percocet. it took about 6 percs to get me a little high. running out of tramadol and having nothing else was hell, it made me sick the tramadol has a very weird withdrawl. anyways on tha 5th month after they took away my oxy, i finally got to see a new dr. she gave me 90 of my old oxycodone 5 mgs. anyway in the past few days before i saw the dr i had been taking about 12 tramadols a day. now im off tramadol but i have to take 10 oxycodone 5 mg to even get the same effect as 12 tramadol? is that normal? does tramadol inccrease your opiate tolerance to oxycodone as well?

 

[rxking377]

I have finally decided to quit taking this as I can no longer afford to buy it or want to try to get doctors to write for it. I have gone from taking 12-14 pills 3 or 4 times a day at peak, down to 6 pills yesterday before I ran out and am cold turkey. I can't get any for another month unless I go find another doc and my wife and more importantly, me, are ready to be off of it. I am trying to minimize withdrawal. I had read a German abstract that said DXM was one of the things used for the worst withdrawal symptoms. I have some limited access to Ativan if I need it.

What I need to know is...does anyone have advice for this scenario: I still drink alchohol but only beer. I know enough not to mix too much beer and ativan for obvious reasons. Does DXM and ETOH not go together well even at small doses? (45-90 mg of DXM?)

Is there anything I can do about the withdrawal effects and what do you recommend. I am no expert on this and am asking for any and all opinions and help. I have been through alcohol withdrawal in a clinical setting 2 years ago, but don't drink anything approaching that anymore.

Thanks all.

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