Tramadol hell

[Atlantan07]

Tr@m is an interesting one. It can affect two people in totally different ways. Now it really is amazing for nerve pain. Beats the pants off of heavier drugs like V!coden or even stronger. For some people it is very difficult to stop it cold turkey. I guess I was lucky.  I had no problem with it. But go figure, I had a month of daily V!icoden use from a botched surgery and when I stopped it was a withdrawal nightmare. Now my partner when they had to stop Tr@m it was a nightmare for them. The only thing that fixed it was taking their normal dose and cutting it in half for a few days, cutting it in half from there for a few days, and finally
the extremely small dose for about a week. After that they were able to stop no problem.  I do think the drug gets a really bad wrap. I think the problem
was that it was too effective and cheap.  Fifteen years ago everyone prescribed it. It was ubiquitous. Now people in real pain have to beg for it. Sometimes
I just don't get this planet of ours.

That is the scary thing for me, unfortunately... for all the issues I have...it makes me feel like a brand new person ready to tackle any problem..and ever since childhood I never knew that I could feel like that because I struggled with depression since childhood and it's now topped off with 3 injuries (one nerve-related) and other 2 lower back. So it is like the holy grail when it comes to how many wonders it does for me. However, because it works so well...both pain-related and is also an anti-depressant I would categorize it as one of the most difficult things to get off of. You will be battling not only the pain threshold that rebounds but will also mentally feel extremely down while going through severe dehydration on top of every single withdrawal symptom any opioids have. This is the exact feeling I experienced over 4 different times when I tried to quit in case I did not have access in the future, even now I reduced intake but even then you feel it. Sigh  so In other words if you don't have extremely serious reasons to take it and you can mitigate the pain using something else and its bearable then I wouldn't want to wish this hell on anybody and caution you to stay away. My experience is not unique.