Tramadol dependant

[popeye.sailor]

Hi you all

I'm another fool caught by this "inocent non adictive drug"

I’m on 400mg Tramadol per day for serious back pain after an injury. After 10 months I want to get off this drug.

During the last month I tried to quit with no success. I went cold turkey and quit after 3 days, I will never go that route again. Then I tried to scale down from 400mg to 350mg. The withdrawal symptoms kicked in and I quit after 2 days.

I started searching the internet and the best I could find was Gabapentin and Clonidine.
My plan is to take these 2 drugs and start tapering down on Monday 14 Jan 13 at 25mg per week.
It will take 4 months to scale down to zero.

I have no experience of this. Only when I dropped it I learned about withdrawal and all this shit. I'm exremely depressed by just thinking how this drug is conrolling my life. I used to be in good health and had a positive personality. I'm not even 30% of myself now. I just want my life back again !

Any suggestions or advice is welcome.

 

[mardoux]

i'm sorry to hear you're going through this, i know how awful withdrawl is, although tramadol never did anything for me, but i've dealt with it with other drugs. do some research and hopefully someone has some insight for you . i just wanted to wish you luck and support.

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Welcome to Bluelight!

 

[spork]

Welcome to Bluelight popeye.

New Member Introductions is a forum where you can introduce yourself to the board rather than ask specific questions like this as there are many other forums that serve that purpose. I also see that you already posted this question in The Dark Side too and we generally don't cross-post to several forums on this board. There is lots of information that can be found on this topic in Other Drugs as well. With that said, I'm going to close this thread, but you're welcome to come back to NMI and post an intro thread if you wish. I wish you all the best.