Tramadol can be dangerous as I found out once when I had a grand mal seizer at the grocery store about 2 years ago. I have found my dose that works best for me and I now get to enjoy 6 - 8 hours of feeling calm, motivated and anxiety free! To address your question weather or not you have food in your stomach, it will not effect your euphoria in any way other then how fast you feel something. I always eat first only because I have no appetite after taking them. Yes it might take an extra 30 minutes but if I don't I get so hungry when I come down that I can not stop eating. It is not really food in general that effects any orally taken drug it is the type of food. Fatty foods will constrict and slow down the digestive system in your stomach, but low fat items will have little effect on it. When I take them I do 200mg about every 15 minutes until I reach about 1000mg total. I also take 300 mg of Gabapentin with every 200mg of the Tramadol. For me this helps my euphoria a lot. I do not know why but it just does. I have taken the Tramadol alone and I do not get the same feeling at all. When I start to come down after the 6-8 hours I will be very tired and start the head bob which is where I am at right now. I started taking them at 10am today, hade my 1000mg of Tramadol and 1500mg of Gabapentin in me by 11:30am. I have spent the whole day motivated and free of stress. This is way more them most anyone should take so I would be careful with it because the full effect will not take place for up to 90 minutes, at least that is for me. when I seized it was because I just kept taking them thinking nothing was happening then when it did I felt great. I had taken over 2000mg and they just kept working and took my brain to far. Ended up in the ambulance. I told them exactly what I took which might have saved my life because they new how to treat that. Spent the night in intensive care and received the bills totaling over $6,000.
Sorry about my ramblings but this is my first real post/reply I have done and I am feeling very free from what I took today. I got out and did things I had put off for days and also just set at home in front of the TV with not a care in the world. It is 8:30pm know and I am getting tired and doing the head bob. I am also supposed to be taking Ritalin 20 mg 3 times daily. I of corse take it on my terms and always insufflate. I took three of them between 6 and 7 tonight to try and wake me up a little but it has done almost nothing. The Tramadol wins and I will now be getting ready for bed. I think I fell asleep a few time while typing this.
I have a script for 180 of the 50 mg per month but in the state I live in they do not classify it as controlled yet so they will refile it every 23 days. I also get 180 Norco's (10/325 Hydrocodone). I used to love them but I have to take at least 150 mg just to get a 60-90 minute effect. Also when your out the Norco has a nasty withdrawal but the Tramadol is not that bad. I just take the Gabapentin alone when out of the Trammy's and I have very little withdrawal. I also have an MS Contin script but everyone knows it is crap for anything but pain relief, it does work well for what is actually intended for though.
I am sorry again for the ramblings here but I have enjoyed myself. I reviewed the general rules for when posting and hope that I have kept within the requested guidelines for the site. I have been a spectator for years it is nice to be a full member of the team now!
To make a simple answer to your question, your stomach content has no effect on the euphoria except effecting the onset or how quickly it takes effect. Again I recommend eating a low fat meal first. This will have little effect on how long before it takes effect and it puts food in your system since you will most likely not eat much if at all while on them.
I hope you enjoy them most people think it is a worthless drug but it has become one of my favorites. When I started typing this there where no replies yet, I just did a refresh and see I must have been typing for a long time...Enjoy
