This blasted ultram

bewildered42 · 02-19-2005, 09:30 AM

Happy Saturday Everyone,

I am struggling so bad with this ultram. Ellnsync, I don't know how with your addiction history you manage to keep your ultram intake to 200mg a day. I have, as I've said before, a truly unlimited supply of it. And if that WOULD ever run out it's so easy to get and so cheap on the internet. I have chronic pain issues with my "corrected" scoliosis and all the hardware that entails. I have a new scoliosis above the correction in my neck and a degeneration of the L5-S1 disk from trying to hold the weight of this massive fusion. That causes sciatica. I exercise by walking 3 miles a day, unless it's too cold out. I help myself! by doing everything they taught me in physical therapy. But the pain is still there. I take way too much ultram. I'm up to 600mg a day. I'm definetly addicted. But it helps me so much in so many ways. The anti-depressive qualities are definetly part of the problem and it also knocks the socks off the pain. I would never cross over to any other narcotic. I'm so worried at this high does about seizures. I have 3 kids who I drive around all the time to their respective activities..what if I had a seizure while driving? They could get killed! All over the ultram. But yet I keep taking it. So stupid! If I could even taper to the allowed dose of 400 mg I would feel better. And then I would start taking the small dose of Pamelor again that I'm suppose to be on at bedtime. I read that tricylclic anti-depressants, which Pamelor is, increases the chances of seizures so I stopped taking it. Now my sleep is messed up without it and that increases the pain. I've simply got to do something about all this...

BW

bluejulie5 · 02-19-2005, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bewildered42

Happy Saturday Everyone,

I am struggling so bad with this ultram. Ellnsync, I don't know how with your addiction history you manage to keep your ultram intake to 200mg a day. I have, as I've said before, a truly unlimited supply of it. And if that WOULD ever run out it's so easy to get and so cheap on the internet. I have chronic pain issues with my "corrected" scoliosis and all the hardware that entails. I have a new scoliosis above the correction in my neck and a degeneration of the L5-S1 disk from trying to hold the weight of this massive fusion. That causes sciatica. I exercise by walking 3 miles a day, unless it's too cold out. I help myself! by doing everything they taught me in physical therapy. But the pain is still there. I take way too much ultram. I'm up to 600mg a day. I'm definetly addicted. But it helps me so much in so many ways. The anti-depressive qualities are definetly part of the problem and it also knocks the socks off the pain. I would never cross over to any other narcotic. I'm so worried at this high does about seizures. I have 3 kids who I drive around all the time to their respective activities..what if I had a seizure while driving? They could get killed! All over the ultram. But yet I keep taking it. So stupid! If I could even taper to the allowed dose of 400 mg I would feel better. And then I would start taking the small dose of Pamelor again that I'm suppose to be on at bedtime. I read that tricylclic anti-depressants, which Pamelor is, increases the chances of seizures so I stopped taking it. Now my sleep is messed up without it and that increases the pain. I've simply got to do something about all this...

BW

WOW you have a huge addiction and need to go to a DR> ASAP

bewildered42 · 02-19-2005, 03:39 PM

That is the very LAST thing I plan to do, bluejulie.

BW

Jon_F · 02-19-2005, 06:12 PM

I know how you feel, I used to be hooked on 15-20 ultram a day even while I was doing other drugs I had to have my Ultram. I think the W/ds from ultram are among the weirdest and the worst. I actually was even still taking ultram when i started my suboxone maintenance a lil over a month ago but found out I didnt need it no more. There has been many times when I was clean for a long period of time and thought I could start taking ultrams again and it got me started back on everything else and worse off then before. Another thing I find odd is when I was strung out on the 15-20 ultram a day, when I ran out and became sick hardly any drug could help besides morphine and methadone. Oxy would help for about 4 hrs than Id be sick again. Even the meth and morphine only helped a lil while. I would have horrible headaches, tremors and all kinds of uncomfort things happen when I W/D from them. I think that has to say something about the drug how it takes heavy narcotics to replace them. Hydrocodone is out of the question for helping withdrawls from ultram, doesnt help hardly any. I think there is a lot that the medical community doesnt know about tramadol but they are starting to find out. Anyway, just sharing my past experience with this drug and how hard of a time I had with it. Good Luck !

Jon_F · 02-19-2005, 06:20 PM

You can try changing to the ultracet. They are less addictive and less likely to cause seizures. I have done that before and you will be slightly sick for a day or two then 2 of them 3 times a day will help you fine if you can discipline yourself to take as directed. I have no discipline but when I went to jail one time I had already ate all my ultrams and I had my grandmother pick up a script of the ultracet from the pharmacy and bring them to the jail. I believe after about a week I was used to the ultracet and they helped me. But, when I got out I went back to the ultram lol. Just a suggestion man, I know what you are going through