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SOMA or TRAMADOL need your opinions

kunmo

kunmo

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Ive been scripted Tramadol for a while now but ive heard SOMA is pretty good.... So please help with your opinions on the 2 drugs. Im pretty sure i can get switched whenever (on 300MG Tramadol and 900MG of gabapentin daily scripted)


Thanks in Advance.
 
Soma and tram should not be taken together for medical purposes.

Soma can be unpredictable in the fact that it can lower or raise seizure threshold.
So taking it with tramadol is not recommended.

Soma has pretty good analgesic properties, and gabapentin potentates it.

Tramadol is pretty unpredictable in it's analgesic properties. It either works or it doesn't. This can happen from one day to the next. It's a good choice if you want to be fully alert while killing pain, as it can cause quite a nice stimulation effect.
When I say it's unpredictable, I am referring to the opiate effects it gives.
Regardless of what people say, if you have too much opiate tolerance, you will get little to no opiate effects from tramadol in reasonable doses.

EDIT: Soma will definitely be more recreational.
With the Tramadol as you should know, it's really hard to beat it's tolerance once you do get tolerant to it, then you will take unsafe amounts at that rate.
 
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Soma will help with pain but if you take a few extra to get high you can really get loaded on them.Tramadol is a very weak painkiller in my opinion but soma is not even an opiate so It depends on how the drugs effect you..
 
It def stops my RLS but i really dont get an opiate feel.... However i do get pretty wired, if i keep taking them i can stay up for days. So will Soma give me a more desired opiate effect while stopping my RLS.....? I will take the gabapentin with either one but i was implying on switching from Tramadol to SOMA..... so in light of that..... Will SOMA give me a better opiate effect?
 
kunmo said:
It def stops my RLS but i really dont get an opiate feel.... However i do get pretty wired, if i keep taking them i can stay up for days. So will Soma give me a more desired opiate effect while stopping my RLS.....? I will take the gabapentin with either one but i was implying on switching from Tramadol to SOMA..... so in light of that..... Will SOMA give me a better opiate effect?
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Soma is not an opiate. It has a sedative Barbiturate like effect. It has very strong effects on the GABA modulation, more so a hypnotic than benzos.

You will have nice relief from you RLS, but I really think you should get a real RLS medication.
 
I know a few people (including myself) who are prescribed Soma and Tramadol. If you take them as prescribed everything should be groovy. Someone here said Somas can lower or raise the
seizure threshold. Is that like when they say "May cause sleepiness or insomnia" or "May cause
loss or increase of appetite"
 
I like the Trams dude, however, like everyone in here says, you have to take a pretty good dose of them to feel good. I still like em tho, I take about 600mg a day
 
tramadol32 said:
I like the Trams dude, however, like everyone in here says, you have to take a pretty good dose of them to feel good. I still like em tho, I take about 600mg a day
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Your risking a seizure taking 600mg daily. You shouldn't go above 400mg.

Soma has good analgesic effects but its not an opiate. It has barbiturate type effects as it is almost similar. Its sedating and a better option over Tramadol in my opinion. Tramadol keeps me up, a really undesirable stimulation, makes me uncomfortable. Even at 400mg I don't feel much analgesic effects. Its a weaker opiate.
 
I'm sure the OP has made his/her decision long ago judging by the posting date but it seems this thread is still somewhat alive so I will relate my experience.

Soma/Carisoprodol would be best for the OPs medical condition IMO, though not in high doses. FOR ME carisoprodol can cause lack of muscle control and shaking/tremors (sometimes severe and a bit disconcerting) AND it is unpredictable at what dose might occur. I have had this happen by taking only 700mg, yet other times I am have been able to take 1-2g with with very nice recreational effects (and no ill effects).

Tramadol works for me recreationally. However, this far along in my (ab)use I have to take ridiculously high doses. This is dangerous and I would NOT recommend this. However, if you do this anyway, as I do, take a long acting benzo with it - clonazepam or the like - to at least reduce seizure risk. Once again, merely taking a benzo with a high dose DOES NOT make this safe.

I have no knowledge of how Tramadol would help with RLS.
 
likeakite said:
I know a few people (including myself) who are prescribed Soma and Tramadol. If you take them as prescribed everything should be groovy. Someone here said Somas can lower or raise the
seizure threshold. Is that like when they say "May cause sleepiness or insomnia" or "May cause
loss or increase of appetite"
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same exact thing,only different! =D
 
^ :D I take lamotrigine which is approved to treat several different types of seizures. One of the possible side effects is that it "can induce a type of seizure known as a Myoclonic Jerk" and "in overdose, lamotrigine can cause uncontrolled seizures in most patients regardless of the reason they were prescribed the drug."

Slightly off topic but a good example of 'buyer beware'. Good to research as much as possible and not base decisions on a single sorce. Some drugs may produce a wide range of effects, apparently even polar opposites... I can personally attest to this :\
 
odd i should find this as i'm currently about to keel over into soma coma land because my tramadol script is out.

soma and tramadol have extremely different effects. on me, anyway. one puts me in to zone-out land, the other peps me up and gets my mind moving. (depending on dosage, of course. high doses of either eventually pose the risk of potential fiery death by dropping my smokes on flammable me.)

i'm kind of confused as to why you'd be prescribed either of these for RLS, though.
 
I have similar effects with soma and tram as tuna. i stopped using some (prob temporarily...) after not being able to walk and having muscle spasms for nearly an hour on a somewhat high dose... with tramadol. I don't want to violate any rules here but you should know that tramadol can be obtained very easily and not on the street or via legit doc... have I said too much?
 
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