Misc Tramadol induced SS? Anyone with MDMA, SSRI, SNRI or other toxicities please help!

[hadini]

I hope it is alright to revive this thread for my question... I have tried to get answers in other sections and found none and the sheer amount of information on this forum is really motivating so I thought I would try here.

1. I had a reaction after a weekend involving 300mg tramadol (once a day for three days), 350 mg SOMA, 50mg Demerol (taken only on friday, 1st day), and a lot of marijuana... after the third day i took the 300mg trams and a 350 SOMA that were fine the first two days and everything went to hell. Got an intense electric feeling, dilated eyes, insane pressure behind the eyes, lsd like sensations and visual disturbances, shaking, confusion, numbness, basically blacked out (though the benzos i took to try and neuroprotect the craziness in my head may have been more responsible for the blackout). Came to later that night and went to the ER. What's weird is that I felt very 'off and awful' for a few days after, but it wasn't until the fourth day that my nightly weed bowl caused a recurrence of symptoms. insane heart rate, fully dilated eyes, sensory disturbances, confusion, thought i was going to die. For the next month I had insane anxiety and fear... it was another world and I am stunned I didn't fuck up my job.

Since then i cut out almost all drugs, and after a 5 or so weeks I felt mostly recovered and decided to take amoxicillin for a recurring sore throat i was having (in retrospect likely was due to weed withdrawal) and had an insane recurrence of symptoms. Seemed to have severely delayed my recovery. I am now two and a half months in and feel maybe 60% recovered. Anxiety is mostly gone unless I get brief symptoms. All that is left is insane drug sensitivity, occasional vision changes, and a nagging buzz in my head (sometimes accompanied by fatigue or restlessness). I mean crazy drug sensitivity, one hit of weed pushes me to the threshold of having an 'episode', and one stool softener dilated my eyes and drove me to take a benzo 8 hours later to fight off confusion, panic, and other symptoms. I have had severe sensitivity to everything but benzos (even friggin aspartame, zicam zinc losenges, ambien, claritin, stool softener, alcohol, caffeine). Does this sound like the long SS recoveries in this thread or something else?

2. Anyone who has encountered toxicity for SSRI, SNRI, Seratonergic drugs like MDMA or what have you... Can you please share your story, symptoms, and recovery timetable? How long did it take to be in the clear? I at times feel i am much better, but then have symptoms from a zinc tablet or a diet coke or something stupid; then i question whether ill ever recover, and if i'll have to live a life as the wordls biggest tee-totaler. I of course am never taking a re-uptake drug again... but I miss hitting up the bars with my friends and being able to drink a red bull without traveling off to some psychedelic hellscape.

3. To those in recovery... were you ever able to enjoy weed the way you used to (ie not worrying about intake causing symptoms). We're you able to drink, smoke, resume your old habits without symptoms? If so how long did it take? If not... how are you doing now?

Many thanks for your replies... I realize I am newbie on here but I am so worried about this stuff. From what i can tell Blers may know more about this than my doc, who insists that i just have an anxiety disorder (i have had anxiety all my life... this is chemical/biological and im sure of it).

 

[Connor the Alien]

Doesn't sound like SS really, I've had something similar to this and I've found it's a kind of prolonged anxiety attack. Tramadol can make you feel really weird I find, you can get quite bad derealiziation and feel quite 'off'. I was convinced I had SS after taking Tramadol the first time and spent the whole night waiting for my local doctors surgeon to open, but some months later I realized that what i had suffered was indeed a very horrible and prolonged anxiety attack.

 

[Treefa]

Don't fucking take Demerol with tramadol, and definetley don't take both of them with soma. You know you can google drug interactions right??? It's kind of common fucking sense..

They are both shitty, if your going to abuse opioids, abuse real opioids that don't fuck with serotonin and all that bullshit.

I only once had a scary experience with tram which I combined with about 2mg of suboxone.
I was just shivering but i'm pretty sure it was something of a panic attack, after I took .25 Xanax and smoked a joint, and covered up with a blanket I was all better..cold perhaps.

I didn't see in your post what benzos you took??
SOMA is NOT a benzo, and I believe it decreases the seizure threshold.


Kid stay away from the pharms and shit, in the long run weed is really the way to go...Then again I've never had "weed withdrawal" lol this could be deadly!

Weed has always been my go-to drug even with a mild opiate dependence etc. And nothing has ruined it for me...Except the fact that it's expensive than it should be, and Hannah Montanna promotes the shit to kids on t.v. and shit. Other than that weed is like my stone(no pun) or rock. Always there to save even the worst day, and my friend I do mean even the worst day.


So op, lay off the dirty pharms for a while (I say dirty because of their action on other neurochemicals besides just binding to opioid receptors like MORPHINE which I consider a very clean drug.), watch a heartwarming movie, drink some beer, and smoke a bowl or 10. There are Safe, good drugs, and harmful, bad drugs. I like naturally safe(ish) ones.

Take it Sleazy, and i'm out!

-Treefa

 

[hadini]

Thanks for the reply. If you had read more closely you would have seen that I can't drink beer or smoke without having symptoms. That is sort of why I posted here.

And I will address your tone and say that weed withdrawal is a very real, albeit not life threatening thing. I know far too many stoners who want nothing more than to stop but can't make it more than a week or so. Symptoms can be subtle but they can eat away at your soul, given prolonged periods of use and genetic sensitivity to the withdrawal. Cigarettes and oxycodone were easier to quit than weed, for me.