So I'm currently underemployed and without insurance. I also have moderately severe pain and Cervical Thoracic Rib syndrome, which hurts like heck. I'm located in Tennessee, so many online pharmas don't ship here. If I wanted to go get jacked up, I'd take my money and do that, so I'm not looking to buy off the street or anything idiotic. I'd rather pay the same or slightly more. Any advice is appreciated until I get full time employment and health insurance.
So, do you have a script or not? You can 'technically' legally obtain Tramadol since it is not scheduled. I have done it many times with no problems before I got on Suboxone. However, getting into business transactions with an online pharmacy that offers Scheduled opioids without needing a prescription, is a really risky thing to do. If that pharmacy gets 'raided' (and it will eventually), the police get to look at all of the customer records. So, if you just bought a few pills, you will probably be looked over, but anything more than that could result in a nerve-wracking talk with the cops, even if they don't charge you with anything. I always WANTED to buy some narcotics off the internet, but even at my most severe opioid addiction, I resisted it. You can try the Tramadol thing though without having to worry too much. And since you need it just for pain, its not like you will be buying tons of it to get high. That's my thoughts.
Although if the OP has pain, those SNRI properties could help the pain. But I agree, it is still not a good thing to do, especially if you have not succumbed to opioid addiction.
I've personally never heard of a successful transaction thru these online pharms. I've heard either getting fake meds or if your lucky getting nothing. I could be wrong but that's all I've seen. If someones ever did it successfully I'd love to hear about it. Like ET said also the risk of the pharm getting raided is a real risk. I also got deep into addiction and always avoided this route. Good luck either way.
My warning comes from having a severe reaction to an SNRI that almost killed me (read serotonin syndrome) and then having almost as bad a reaction from Tramadol...... This was at recommended doses too. Some Doctors will actually prescribe both of these at the same time and Pharmacies don't catch it either. So my post was a little lopsided due to experience, but Tramadol is not an opiate in the real sense.
Funny you mention that! I had an incredibly similar experience about two and a half years ago. Sorry to get off topic, but it is a good 'tale.' As you may know, I am prescribed 225mg of Effexor (a SNRI antidepressant), which is a moderately high dose. Up until about six months ago, I suffered from terrible migraine headaches almost daily. So I decided to go to my Family Doctor to see what they could do. However, I KNEW that I could NOT take a Triptan medication (Imitrex, Maxalt, etc.) because mixing it with Effexor is just Serotonin Syndrome waiting to happen. So I made my case to the Physician's Assistant (not an M.D.) that I couldn't mix the two. She insisted (probably because she didn't want to give me opioids...) that I take the Imitrex. Coincidentally, after I got the Imitrex filled (apprehensively), two hours later, a migraine came on. So I took the Imitrex (of course I took 225mg Effexor that morning...). Within 25 minutes I was in full-blown Serotonin Syndrome. I had a fever that was rising by the second, sweat pouring out of my body, severe stiff muscles, complete disorientation and malaise, and all of the other wonderful symptoms you know of. At least I didn't die. I knew right away that it was Serotonin Syndrome and I ALSO knew that administration of a 5-HT2A antagonist would ease the symptoms quickly. THANK GOODNESS I am prescribed Zyprexa, a powerful 5-HT receptor antagonist. I took a 10mg tablet immediately. It took a good 2 hours for the Serotonin Syndrome to go away, but it did. I would have likely had to go to the hospital had I not had the Zyprexa. I called the Physician's Asst. the next day and was very stern with her. She actually DEFENDED her actions and said it was a risk worth taking. All of this just to not have to give me opioids. So eventually I got some Tramadol out of it, and luckily it did NOT produce any Serotonin Syndrome. But, funny isn't it?, that after ALL of the mess with Imitrex, she gives me Tramadol (another possible Serotonin Syndrome precipitator!) and not Hydrocodone like every other person on the planet gets prescribed for any damned thing. Needless to say, I NEVER went to that doctor's office again, and I warn all of my friends and my friends' families to avoid that place like the plague. I just wanted to share that delightful tale.
The thing is, I'm going to have to pay a lot to see a doctor without insurance. I *can* call on a friend to write a script, but I hate doing that. When I've had a script in the past, I got 50mg generics, 90p per month. I usually took half during the day, and if I was bad off, half before bed. I'm not much of a user. Probably best just to suck it up, put on my big girl panties, and ask. Thanks for the advice. The reason my old script went to heck is my insurance is now gone since I work part time and my school insurance is gone, and 90p lasts me usually about 4 months, which includes giving part to my mother and my Great Dane.
Holy God. It amazes me that the PA defended that (though I've seen doctors and advanced practitioners do some dumb things). I'm unsure why medical professionals are so scared of opioid drugs; they're habit-forming, but if you keep a tight reign on patients and carefully drug test and manage pain, everyone wins.
DEA watches docs that prescribe opiates and many states make the doc, not his/her office personnel, fill out multiple forms, etc. etc. Basically they are lazy and scared..... Oh yeah, they don't give a crap about the patient either, majority are in it for the $$$.
Yeah, that's unfortunate. And I now have a script for Tizanidine. Unfortunately, I can't take it during work because of having to use muscle, but it's something I can try if I really hurt at night. We'll see.
