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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards

Tramadol for long term

Yes, that may keep your urges in check, but what happens when you "accidentally" go on a binge and take 2-300mg at once a few days in a row and run out of pills with a week before you can call in for a refill? And of course if you only take it twice daily (as well as only been on it for 4 months; this is the amount of time I would expect it to take for physical dependence to set in) dependence isn't going to be much of an issue. For one, you're taking the minimum dose, AND you're not keeping a steady amount in your blood. Yes, tramadol has a long half-life, but it isn't THAT long. One other thing you need to think about though...even though it's not a strong opioid, you're still upping your opioid tolerance. What are you going to do when you get older and you need opioids for neck or back pain? Or what are you going to do when you're in a bad car wreck (because they don't give you strong enough shit anyway when you leave the ER)?

You're going to be shit out of luck because your tolerance is going to be fucked and the meds they give you aren't going to touch your needs. Don't fuck yourself by taking opioids for something other than pain on a regular-near regular basis. I might still once in a blue moon take something stronger and try to get "high" by doing so, but most of the time when I take something stronger that I get off the street, I'm taking it for pain. There once was a time when I used to use opioids SOLELY for the purpose to get "high," but it was MAYBE once every 3 or 4 months I'd go and get 4 or 5 vicodin and have them gone in a day. It was not 2 or 3 times per week though. So I'll say it again: Don't fuck yourself.
 
It really sucks when you have to be on them b/c you can't function without them. I have a dislocated shoulder and torn radial ligaments with my collarbone pushed out of place. I completely lost the use of my right arm. I herniated a disk in my neck as well, which is crushing a nerve complex that controls the feeling/movement in the right half of my body. Plus, the fall compressed my L5/L6.

I have fibromyalgia already, and was on tramadol for 3 years straight before I just got on it again recently. I'm prescribed 300mg per day, which helps GREATLY, much better than nothing at all, but the pain is excruciating and I should probably be on something stronger or at least something for breakthrough pain.

It's been 3 1/2 months of this torture, and I honestly could not live without tramadol. I literally considered suicide when I couldn't afford to go to a doctor and I had to go to these free clinics that told me to take fucking tylenol. I wanted to murder them, every free clinic I went to.

So here I am back on long-term tramadol for pain management, and it works like a miracle...but don't get me wrong; I am hooked as fuck.
 
The last bit even further establishes it's antidepressant action.

Tramadol is just like a quick acting effexor. Why?

1. It invigorates the users with a high yield for lifting moods. Structural relation is very high. They both have very high rates of nausea and insomnia causes.

2. (should have been number one) They are both SNRI's. Leading to rapid and worse depression on WD.

3. Both theoretically can be used for fibromyalgia. (Tramadol more-so)

4. Anti depressants are all psychologically addicting in the long term depressed user. (Especially these two.)

5. Both have a very bad history in causing seizures.


Some may fail to see the logic behind what I'm saying here.
There are too many similarities in saying that tramadol can't possibly be used as an anti-depressant.

The fairly weak opiate effects that are had with tramadol at the beginning of treatment will and do wean off, leaving the typical effexor effects.
The opiate action with tramadol can theoretically be of a anti-anxiety in nature. Replacing the use of benzos at the beginning of treatment with effexor.

I think being addicted to an antidepressant type med could have it's advantages.

Addiction will always be a risk. There is no doubt about that.

Concidering that psychiatry has it's pleathra of shitty meds that are half decent at best...

Why not add one more proven antidepressant/painkiller to the mix?
 
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