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Active withdrawal - can anybody advise quickly???

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common story - I think. Dr. Gave me Rx for Tramadol stating "not a narcotic, may or may not be "habit forming" - no mention of addictive. Rx says take 2 50 mg tablets 3 times a day. Been doing that about 3 years. Don't have the need anymore so I began to wean myself. Started not about a week a ago decreasing dosage by half. Then every day would try to go an hour longer between two pills. I have 7 50 mg tabs left - but I have refills. I DO NOT want to refill. I took one @ 7:30 am after no sleep so that I could take a benzo to get much needed sleep. It's now 10:30 pm. Feeling aweful. Symptoms like I'm reading others have had - insomnia, aches - RLS, uncontrollable sneezing & runny nose, can't keep still, crying one minute, want to rip the heads off my four teenaged kids & husband (verbally) the next etc. feel like crud - big time. I REALLY want to take one of those pills so my night isn't horrible - having a pity party as I write this with tears coming down my cheeks. Do I take the pill & try to go longer tomorrow, or do I go "Johnny Cash" style (as they say in the US, which means I just suck it up and keep myself away from others & roll around in bed & on the toilet for days??? Am I prolonging the enevitable or making it harder on myself??

i have never taken more than the prescribed dosage, but I've taken it regularly for a long time. 300 mg a day. Pretty much like clockwork.

ive been on 100 mg (50 in am & 50 late night for four days & it just keeps getting worse.) im a mess. Anybody???

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    andrew41577 Conveluted

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    I feel your pain quitting cold turkey off of tramadol i have found these method elivate the rls of the legs as i am battling it hard at night

    I take 25 mg of zoloft

    Prescribed to me takes about 5 hours for it to start to work

    I then put a lidocain patch on my legs one patch cut into two pieaces

    Then i either take 800 mg of ip profen or 2 tylabol pms

    If like now i cant sleep i take a very hot bath

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