Background
I've been using pain medications and muscle relaxers of all sorts for roughly two years for middle and low back injuries including both herniated and bulging discs, vertebral compression fractures, and facet joint problems. After trying things like codeine, darvocet, hydrocodone, NSAIDs, steroids, etc., and not getting much pain relief, my doctor prescribed oxycodone. I was referred to a pain clinic and my new doctor continued with the oxycodone and added some other medications. After a few months of adjusting meds and dosages, I ended up on 80-100mg oxycodone, 350mg carisoprodol q.i.d., and a rotating NSAID.
My pain doctor suddenly left my hospital/clinic last summer and after a good 18 months or so with him I was left in the hands of another and randomly-selected doctor. Already long story short, he swapped me onto a boatload of morphine and left me stoned out of my mind and wholly dysfunctional for far too many weeks until I couldn't stand it anymore and left him.
Honestly, while I knew all along the power of the medications I was being prescribed, I never felt like I was addicted or in danger of addiction. That changed when I found myself without any access to these drugs. Perhaps it is merely my `addiction' to not being in a fuckton of pain most of the time, or maybe I am just hooked.
After being passed amongst a number of different doctors, I found one who did new MRIs, recognized horrific the state of my mid and lower back, and prescribed me - vicodin… After so long on high dosage oxycodone, WITH soma, the vicodin doesn't help much with functionality, even taken in excess. So I'm mostly just piling it up in my closet for one of those very rainy days...
I recently came into a reliable if overpriced source for carisoprodol, tramadol, and other shitty opioids. I decided to get some tramadol so I wouldn't have to deal with this horrible and constant revved-up feeling from being on oxycodone & friends for ~2 years. That was mostly all the vicodin was doing anyway, except it was also keeping me physiologically attached. Carisoprodol always helped with mid-back muscle spasm/pain like no pain killer could, so I decided to get a bunch of that as well. I also really enjoyed just playing around with soma in the past and I was indeed looking for some kind of high. Sometimes a break from pain and then some is just a nice thing. Ya know?
The Trip(s)
Tramadol didn't help my pain the past two times it was prescribed to me. The generic I received wasn't even of particularly high quality or of good repute. I had only ever gotten a slight buzz off of it and that was truly an unintentional effect experienced during daylong-binges (~250mg 4-5x in a day or so; supposedly, this generally regarded as a bad idea) in search of pain relief/mobility. But carisoprodol had always been effective as a muscle relaxer at 1-2 pills, and as a delightfully euphoric treat at 3 or 4.
So, one day I awoke and had a light breakfast of 4x50mg tramadol, 2.5x350mg carisoprodol, and a coke. I felt the familiar come-up of at least the carisoprodol between 10-30 minutes. The euphoria was great as it always had been. In fact, in terms of both pain and recreational effect, I think I would prefer moderate-dosage carisoprodol alone to oxycodone, morphine, oxymorphone, etc., taken orally and alone. Call me crazy... and then give me your soma.
After a good hour or so of feeling swell, a great nod came upon me suddenly and very unexpectedly. Soma alone would only make me nod/unconscious in the rare stupidly high amount, ~5-8x350mg. So I am left to think the tramadol contributed greatly to the nod. After a few more hours, I decided to redose the tramadol and soma in the same amounts. Sure enough, an hour or two later, I nodded off. I was really amazed. I'm not experienced enough in outright abuse of opioids to know whether a nod is a nod is a nod, but these two experiences seemed identical to the few times I had abused, i.e. taken more than prescribed, my oxycodone and soma to that end. So out of `curiosity,' I went for the nod once more a few hours later and was well-rewarded. Fancy that!
So that's three top-notch nods from only a few handfuls of tramadol and carisoprodol. Note that 200-250mg of tramadol taken recently and also out of curiosity without soma did not intoxicate (or kill much pain).
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I've been using pain medications and muscle relaxers of all sorts for roughly two years for middle and low back injuries including both herniated and bulging discs, vertebral compression fractures, and facet joint problems. After trying things like codeine, darvocet, hydrocodone, NSAIDs, steroids, etc., and not getting much pain relief, my doctor prescribed oxycodone. I was referred to a pain clinic and my new doctor continued with the oxycodone and added some other medications. After a few months of adjusting meds and dosages, I ended up on 80-100mg oxycodone, 350mg carisoprodol q.i.d., and a rotating NSAID.
My pain doctor suddenly left my hospital/clinic last summer and after a good 18 months or so with him I was left in the hands of another and randomly-selected doctor. Already long story short, he swapped me onto a boatload of morphine and left me stoned out of my mind and wholly dysfunctional for far too many weeks until I couldn't stand it anymore and left him.
Honestly, while I knew all along the power of the medications I was being prescribed, I never felt like I was addicted or in danger of addiction. That changed when I found myself without any access to these drugs. Perhaps it is merely my `addiction' to not being in a fuckton of pain most of the time, or maybe I am just hooked.
After being passed amongst a number of different doctors, I found one who did new MRIs, recognized horrific the state of my mid and lower back, and prescribed me - vicodin… After so long on high dosage oxycodone, WITH soma, the vicodin doesn't help much with functionality, even taken in excess. So I'm mostly just piling it up in my closet for one of those very rainy days...
I recently came into a reliable if overpriced source for carisoprodol, tramadol, and other shitty opioids. I decided to get some tramadol so I wouldn't have to deal with this horrible and constant revved-up feeling from being on oxycodone & friends for ~2 years. That was mostly all the vicodin was doing anyway, except it was also keeping me physiologically attached. Carisoprodol always helped with mid-back muscle spasm/pain like no pain killer could, so I decided to get a bunch of that as well. I also really enjoyed just playing around with soma in the past and I was indeed looking for some kind of high. Sometimes a break from pain and then some is just a nice thing. Ya know?
The Trip(s)
Tramadol didn't help my pain the past two times it was prescribed to me. The generic I received wasn't even of particularly high quality or of good repute. I had only ever gotten a slight buzz off of it and that was truly an unintentional effect experienced during daylong-binges (~250mg 4-5x in a day or so; supposedly, this generally regarded as a bad idea) in search of pain relief/mobility. But carisoprodol had always been effective as a muscle relaxer at 1-2 pills, and as a delightfully euphoric treat at 3 or 4.
So, one day I awoke and had a light breakfast of 4x50mg tramadol, 2.5x350mg carisoprodol, and a coke. I felt the familiar come-up of at least the carisoprodol between 10-30 minutes. The euphoria was great as it always had been. In fact, in terms of both pain and recreational effect, I think I would prefer moderate-dosage carisoprodol alone to oxycodone, morphine, oxymorphone, etc., taken orally and alone. Call me crazy... and then give me your soma.
After a good hour or so of feeling swell, a great nod came upon me suddenly and very unexpectedly. Soma alone would only make me nod/unconscious in the rare stupidly high amount, ~5-8x350mg. So I am left to think the tramadol contributed greatly to the nod. After a few more hours, I decided to redose the tramadol and soma in the same amounts. Sure enough, an hour or two later, I nodded off. I was really amazed. I'm not experienced enough in outright abuse of opioids to know whether a nod is a nod is a nod, but these two experiences seemed identical to the few times I had abused, i.e. taken more than prescribed, my oxycodone and soma to that end. So out of `curiosity,' I went for the nod once more a few hours later and was well-rewarded. Fancy that!
So that's three top-notch nods from only a few handfuls of tramadol and carisoprodol. Note that 200-250mg of tramadol taken recently and also out of curiosity without soma did not intoxicate (or kill much pain).
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