tramadol... ridiculous withdrawals, why?

[captainballs]

About 4 months ago I went into an inpatient rehab program for opiates and xanax, mostly because for the first time in my nearly decade long addiction I was spending easily every penny I had and more on being constantly floaty and nice.

So I always kept a lot of trams, which during the busy cycle at work would just sit there as a rarely used backup due to the fact that I usually had enough money to buy real drugs. During tough times when business is slow, which this year was from January to May, I found that I simply had to revert to the opposite schedule: tramadol as the daily dose to keep from getting sick and real drugs only when I saved up enough to buy at a reasonable price. Throwing myself into a self-managed opiate roller coaster is what basically landed me in the hospital with very poor health.

So now, things have been looking a lot better financially because I only take 300 mg of tramadol per day and nothing else - not even weed or alcohol. Still: it is a retarded waste of money considering that trams don't give me a buzz. That money could be saved, spent on a ridiculous cable tv package, used to buy prostitutes, etc.

But whenever I try to quit or even lower my dose I am literally overwhelmed by dizziness and nausea. It's not that typical opiate withdrawal where everything is real intense and bright, it's more like my body not asking my permission but just telling me that I am going to be non-functional and weak for quite a while. It reminds me of SSRI withdrawals, to be honest - the overwhelming nausea and dizziness.

I honestly don't know how to quit, and this is coming from someone who has cold turkeyed xanax from a heavy habit (twice) and sweated out many toilet sessions thanks to the big bag od oc's suddenly being empty.

 

[bpayne]

Yes, I know exactly how you feel, I have withdrawn from tramadol several times, I was using it for over a year and got up to 20 (50 mg) pills a day, I am currently right now withdrawing from buprenorphine which I used to get off of the tramadol and quite frankly it's not quite as bad as the Tram withdrawals were. Tramadol is an SNRI and hits opiate receptors, and quite a few others. so when you withdraw from tram your withdrawing from serotonin, norepinephrine, mu opiate, acetycholine, and several other receptors it's quite literally, The biggest mess of physical dependance you can get into besides a full blown iv heroin addiction and I've even heard some of those people say Tram can be worse. it's bad man Very bad., I used Kratom and suboxone to get off of it, and then became addicted to the suboxone, which I am undergoing a monthlong withdrawal from now. Thinking back as bad as the tram withdrawal was I would've rather stuck on that as it was only a week or so, whereas now I'm fucked for a month or more, also Kratom and Codeine always helped me with my Tram WD, although it doesn't do much for the SNRI portion of it, part of my love affair with tram was the speedy SNRI effects it provided that gave way to a lovely subtle opiate feeling by the end of the night, this of course is coming from someone who started taking it with NO tolerance to anything pretty much, just today a doctor at the ER gave me TEN tramadols and they didn't help the pain much but the addict in me was still happy to get them, although the Nerve of that fucker giving me trams for 2 toothaches, Anyways it will get easier in about 2 weeks dude, use codeine and or Kratom if possible, and Valium can help. Some people get Brain Zaps when withdrawing from Tram, I didn't, but some do, try to stick it out man,
A lot of people don't get much from tram recreationally, It did a lot for me, but it was more like an I'm productive feeling that an actual High perse, but I loved it,
But the downside to it is real and serious, I've read so many horror stories where people say the withdrawal to this "WEAK" drug is worse than any of the harder opiates put together, and after experiencing it several times for myself, I sure as hell am scared to get back on it full time again dude.
Hope U feel better man
Peace
B

 

[captainballs]

Thanks. Man, that is horrible news. I thought about getting on subs but the whole reason I quit everything except for tramadol was to keep costs down.

 

[DeMiZe-420-]

try methadone man, u cant go wrong with the domes

 

[phatass]

you're feeling the combined effects of an anti-depressant and an opiate withdrawl...

 

[opytb]

Tramadol is the devil. I can take 100mg a day for a week and have a crazy withdrawl. It makes a lot of sense now, what the withdrawl feels like, after reading this thread.