So, I just got my Tramadols today. I didn't know what to expect, so before taking them, I took 50mg of Benadryl and I ate 3 Tums, in case of any nausea. I took two 100mg pills, and 40 minutes later, I was feeling pretty good. Then about an hour and a half later, I took 50 more milligrams right before dinner. After dinner I was feeling fantastic. I had a great body high and I was nodding off a little bit. To me it feels like a cross between Zanex and Hydrocodones, but without the nausea. I know everybody's different, but I think that this is a pretty worthwhile experience, and somewhat underrated.
I always thought Tramadol was pretty tame but then I'm used to 100mg of Demerol at a wack. Be careful if your taking certain anti-depressants, Pristig being one because there can be some pretty serious long term side affects.
also be careful with taking tramadol too much; the withdrawal effects can literally kill you if you become physically addicted.
Yes, thank you, I heard that the withdraws can be dangerous. I also heard that anything above 400mg can cause seizures. So, I have stopped tonight at 350mg, but that was taken over the course of 10 hours. I am going to space this out and not do it more than once or twice a week...
Tramadol? Surely you jest! I take 400mg of the shit a day for pain and, apart from getting drowsy about 11PM, I don't feel a fucking thing. Christ, Polishman, you'd love my doctor, She prescribes 90 X 200mg tabs at a time, with 5 repeats, ad infinitum, for a degenerative spinal condition I have. What is more, with our dirty socialistic subsidy for pharmaceuticals for pensioners, 90 tabs cost me $5.00.
Wow, that is cheap for Tramadol. i paid about 150 for 90 pills. So, I ended up taking another 100mg before bed last night, so it was a total of 350mg yesterday. It's almost 3:00 in the afternoon now, didn't take any Trams today, but I'm still high and noddin off, and feeling that good kind of dope nausea, this stuff is crazy...
Yes I do, as well as lumbar spinal stenosis (hole in spinal canal too small for spinal cord) and degenerative arthritis in the neck and thoracic spine as a result of a broken neck many years ago. You too, huh?
nice to meet a fellow AS'er for once!!! how old are you? it seems like you've probably had it for a long time. I've only had the disease for 1 1/2 years, and now its 24/7 agonizing pain from feeling absolutely nothing in such a short time period. what scares me even more is the spinal fusion - will be happening probably soon. how did you get your doc to prescribe opiates? I've tried any anti imflammatory imagineable, alone with daily pregabalin for months on end which didnt seem to do anything after the first few days of taking it.
I'm 68 and I've had real trouble with my spine since my early forties. My neurology and orthopedic specialists tell me there will be side effects, probably severe, for sure if I go ahead with surgery. So I don't intend getting anything done until I can't walk, which isn't that far off. I didn't ask for the Tramadol, my doctor suggested it. In fact she nagged me into taking it. And after years of near unbearable pain I finally weakened. I estimate it takes about 60 - 70% of the orthopedic caused pain away but not the neurogenic claudication and nerve pain in my arms. So I'll keep taking it and "damn the torpedoes." Coming off Tramadol, if I ever do, can't be much harder than other drugs and booze.
I am addicted to Tramadol, yet responsibly use drugs like amphetamine and benzos, so be careful. That stuff will take a hold of you if you aren't careful.
Trams don't do anything for me anymore but there was a time where I was taking 20 plus 50 mg a day. Ultram withdrawl make oxy withdrawls seem like a walk in the park (at least for me) so be careful.
Thank you, and Early Durban, for your concern. What did you get outta taking Tramadol? Did you have to exceed the recommended dosage to go on the nod? At 6'2'' and 222 lb I am prescribed 400mg a day but usually only take 200mg. The only time I take the other 200mg is when the pain is bad. I had an enormous tolerance to alcohol and street drugs before I became a stinkin' wowser. Maybe that's why I get nothing but pain relief without the "buzz" from tramadol?
Tramadol is a heavy chemistry. Most simillar to Phenetylamines (2c-e, 2c-b, mdma and antidepressives like Venlafaxin) but it's an opiod at the same time. I once took 50 (100 mg) pills cause it's pretty cheap from where I come from, and without Xanax or some diazepam (Valium) you can get epilepsy. I started shaking once and the feeling was disgusting. when taking opiates stick to morphine derivatives, my advice
I can actually remember a time when two or three of them would rock me for hours. But yeah, it got to a point where I would have to exceed a gram to get high.
Tramadol, to me, presented at the 150mg dose, a comparable opioid effect from a 7.5mg "Vicodin" preparation, which got me to a satisfied state of being. I wouldn't call opioid intoxication a high, as, to me, it always seemed more of a stabilizer. Of course, tolerance set in, I exceeded what I told myself not to do, because of severe environmental stress at the time. Then, I realized I would get withdrawal if I didn't use daily, so, I became an addict. I am now taking around 400-600mg a day and it still gets me to that magical sublimity, but I feel it is physically unhealthy, and thus, am going the "Suboxone Route" since I have some money I can use for that somewhat expensive treatment. Honestly, though, I regret NONE of it. I have had the first moments of true peace in my life because of Tramadol, and nothing can take that away. I am not going to be one of those recovering addicts that demonizes drugs. Heck no! They're great in many circumstances.
