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i just had a seizure from tramadol..

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mpgunner

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So I had acquired a bottle of tramadol. Now I new the risk of seizures in a high enough dosage. So I got on Wikipedia and it said that neurontin was an anti convulsant. So I took about 1,200mg of the gaba and then 500mg of tramadol. Well come to find out the gaba doesn't do crap. I learned that the hard way as I blacked while trying to make a sandwich. Luckily my sister was there whose a nurse aid and kept me from swallowing my tongue I guess. Several people arrived to try to wake me up and the paramedics drug me up and onto that bed thing. Well apparently while I was half out of it I claimed that I was trying to kill myself, which is just ridiculous, so I got sent to a va hospital for crazy veterans, which I am. And I just got released today. It was a nightmare. Since its happened I can't think straight my head feels so full and foggy. Idk what's happened to me. But I'm saying this to tell all you guys to never ever base anything off the internet including wiki. I almost died and I'm pretty sure my mind will never be the same. Please guys take extra caution. I hope you guys stay safe, we only have one life. It would suck to die of an overdose. And if any of u guys are religious I need your prayers. I'm terrified my mind is gonna be stuck like this!!
 
Welcome to the Tramadol & Tonic-Clonic seizure club! Hands down, one of, if now THE scariest and awful reaction to a drug I've ever had. Also, Soma (Carisoprodol) is pretty far up there on my list of "NEVER AGAIN."
 
Sorry you had this happen. I dislike Tramadol with a passion. My wife was on that crap for about 9 months and after a while her personality changed drastically. She started acting very overly aggressive, angry, and just plain crazy wanting to kill herself. I had to literally physically restrain her and stop her from taking the van and purposefully crashing it to kill herself. We almost got a divorce it got so bad. She experienced very gnarly withdrawals from it too in between doses. It seems that doctors tend to want to prescribe Tramadol over regular opiates but in my opinion the Tramadol can be much more dangerous than say Norco or Percocet. Maybe addiction potential is less but I think it's not worth the extra risks at least in my experience. Good luck in your recovery and again sorry you had to go through this.
 
Luckily you survived, otherwise you would have been added to the Bluelight Shrine for all we know, next time try some Benzodiazepines (IME Diazepam works best next to Clonazepam) since most of them are anti-convulsants IIRC. :)

Oj yeah never cross the 400 mg / day mark with Tramadol! It would be best to space out your doses like 3 x 150 mg or 2 x 200 mg, maybe that's the reason why I preferred the ER and SR (Extended Release and Sustained Release) pills over the IR (Instant Release) pills when I had little to no Opiate tolerance, ahhh the good old days... ;). No seriously I got Zaldiar (Belgian brand consisting of 37,5 mg Tramadol and 325 mg APAP) pills when I initially got into pain treatment for my back and 4 of those little fuckers with some Diazepam thrown into the mix or maybe 25 mg of Amitryptiline would have me nodding out for hours in front of my computer having to be woken up by my mother who was needless to say very scared of my nods LOL... :p

In the future, thread with caution but I'm sure you will since you've learned the hard way now, right? :)


--» Peace o/
 
Php. 4:7 and the peace of god, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds theough christ jesus.

jer. 29: for i know the thoughts that i think towards you, says the lord, thought of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.
 
This is the reason I think tramadol should be schedule II-I, I've been prescribed it a lot for my back problems and I usually take more than the maximum dosage. It is much more dangerous than other narcotics(Hydro, Oxy etc.) in that it is SO easy to od on the stuff. It's prescribed like candy too!
As for your mind? It may take a few days but it should subside. It sounds like residual effects from the drug. It's also an ssri which you are prolly coming down from. It's not fun but keep rested & hydrated you should be good to go soon.
 
Thank you all for your responses. Yes I will never take that garbage again. I'm also prescribed Prozac so its a wonder I didn't get that serotonin syndrome. But its very odd how everything played out. God was with me. As far as recovery goes I just don't know. I wish I could just not remember how good it felt to be high. Cause life feels so empty without opiates.
 
mpgunner said:
I wish I could just not remember how good it felt to be high. Cause life feels so empty without opiates.
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Well if you have to have opiates try something like Hydrocodone or Oxycodone. Far less dangerous than Tramadol, just harder to get. As JB3783 mentioned they prescribe Tramadol like candy yet shy away from the traditional opiates under the disillusion that Tramadol is a much better alternative.
 
Yes, here in eastern KY its ridiculous, u go into an er with a broken arm and they give u baby aspirin if ur lucky. Friggin DEA... I hate life without opiates and I'm expected to wait a month before entering the suboxone program. Wtf.. I hate the VA..
 
Op I'm terrible sorry you had to go through that I guess I am just one of the lucky ones as far as seizures go having done doses up to 600 mg of tramadol several times and never had a problem with it. I do believe this drug has a slight evil side to it if used incorrectly. Back in 10th grade I began stealing my mom's tramadol as she gets a rediculously large bottle of them with something like 500 pills inside. I began taking them daily and also began to sell them to kids in my highschool and made actually more money off them then I did almost any other drugs I sold.

After a month or so of daily tramadol use around the 400 mg range I began to get irratable at everyone and everything over the slightest things that wouldn't have ever bothered me before. I knew it was the tramadol effecting me and I quit my month or more long habit and was back to normal. Back then I wasn't really thinking of withdrawals but I didn't particularly notice anything harsh altho I probably did have them I just thought it was me big sick or something.

Anyways I still take it every now and then my gf takes them all the time as a sleep aid but they have the opposite effect on me. This seems to be the only pill I can take that will have me higher and higher as more time goes on until I sleep it off. But anyways be careful with these drugs people as OP stated!! I was young and dumb, learn from this.
 
Yeah Im still suffering from bad headaches after that happened. Now I'm getting admitted into a 21 day in-patient program through the VA. At least I will be getting put on suboxone though so it wont be that bad. I still can't believe though that they red flagged me for high risk suicide because of that incident. I do need professional help though, I hope this works cause I'm sick of the drug lifestyle. Its a nasty cycle that's hard to get out of.
 
I think you'll be okay, just give it some time. Remember, the mind heals at its own pace.
 
mpgunner said:
Yeah Im still suffering from bad headaches after that happened. Now I'm getting admitted into a 21 day in-patient program through the VA. At least I will be getting put on suboxone though so it wont be that bad. I still can't believe though that they red flagged me for high risk suicide because of that incident. I do need professional help though, I hope this works cause I'm sick of the drug lifestyle. Its a nasty cycle that's hard to get out of.
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All the best of luck to you. I hope this gives you the help that you need.
 
I has one in 2011, I genuinly didn't know where I was, or why the paramedics were there. Literally one second I'm chatting with husband, next minute in an ambulance. I took 800mg of tramadol that day. I still use it but not in those quantities. The stuff lowers your seizure threshold. Be careful out there folks!
 
I just got prescribed this stuff for fibromyalgia. I've only been on it for a few days, but already want to be switched to something else. I take Tramadol with clonazepam and I don't feel like I get near the seizure level. I really don't feel like this is a horrible medicine, I just feel like I have to be real careful with it.

OP,I feel for you. I will keep you in my prayers.
 
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