Coming off Tramadol

After 5 long years of opiate addiction, I decided enough was enough. I went 3 days cold turkey and felt like dying. In management, I work 13 hour shifts. There was no way I could take off work or let anyone know what was going on. I got tramadol and turned a 30-40 mg a day pain pill addiction into a taper program. I took 100 mg on day one and immediately went to 50 mg on day 2. After feeling cold turkey withdraw 50 mg was relief. I stayed on one 50 mg tablet for 7 days and went to 75 mg for 2 days and on day 4 of 25 mg. The plan is  to go 12.5 mg for the next 3- 4 days and then every three days for a week and then done. I have had very MINOR WD symptoms like RLS but potassium supplements are MAGIC for this. Take that and ibuprophen at night and I slept fine. There are physical symptoms much lighter when tapering. Its your mind that's the enemy. Keep saying no and youll wake up one day and realize you're not a slave anymore. You really do have to be ready. I have a 1000 more highs but not another withdraw left in me

Well here's my story. For 2 and a half years I let tramadol control my life. I was taking 9 pills a day for those 2 and a half years. The feeling of it made you feel like you could do anything. It gave you the power to do it all. I didn't realize what it was doing to my life. I started loosing control of it all. I couldn't even finish a sentence without forgetting what I was talking about. I no longer cared for anything but the feeling of tramadol. And to make it worse, I worked at a animal clinic and they kept no inventory of the trams. I had unlimited supply. I kept up this life for 2 and a half years. I kept telling myself I should stop and never did I stop. Then one day I stopped cold turkey. It was like my whole world came crashing on me. The dark empty horrific withdrawal feelings I got were killing me. I ended up in the hospital for a week due to a separate health issue I have. Luckily that helped me get through it with the pain meds they gave me. After the first week, things got a little easier. I was lucky to have my girlfriend support me thru this whole time. Without her I probably would still be taking them or worse. After week 2 things got a lot better. I started regaining control of life after I realized I was stuck in a dead end job, I quit after  week 3. only reason I stayed there so long was cause of the tram supply. It has now been 3 months that I'm clean and sober. I went thru hell and back and never ever ever will take them again. I or should I say we went thru so much during my withdrawals, that they were enough to scare me away from never taking them again. 

I started out w codene and thought it was horrible and got off of it found tram and thought huh not so bad makes me feel strong and on my toes ready for anything tha imght come my way and properly deal with everything does all he work for me basically started out with two a day upped to two in morning two in afternoon and went up from there never more than six a day tho ... i know how to stop for a day or two suffer and be back down to 2 or 4 a day ... its a yoyo affect because i know what happens if i stop i cant sleep i cant sit still my skin is crawling i have wrestless hole body syndrom .. emotional cry every other twenty minutes over nothing ... people dont get this drug and most pills arnt like street drugs iv quit everything one point or anotherand it was in my head and i could over come and quit w a small amount of wanting to ... i realllly want off these and i cant get the freak off of them iv made it before thirty days fifteen days ... but after a while the not sleeping just messes w my head and the feeling of being weak with out thejm unable to cope with anything as small as spilt milk ... iv used meth before and even meth couldnt keep me from sleeping like detoxing these pills does its absoluely crazy to me that they would even have drugs on the market like this ... they give them out to people get them hooked then red flag theyre paper work and call them junkies when they go to the dr for help .. i want a dr whos been in a car accident and was forced to be on pain med for a long period of time and then pulled off a dr whos actually been through it how can you tell some one anything with out exspirencing it for your self first ... i cry i pray i cry i pray that it will just get easier that ill wake up and feel like me again and not hurt emotionally and physically sooo freaking badly for no other reason than for taking a pill... all i want for christmas is a iv coma wake up two weeks later rough but not unbarable symtoms like the first two weeks .... im afraid to ask for it out loud every one says its all in your head you can do wha you want well that works for getting off pot meth coke alcohal .... that idea dont work for pills these ones mostly iv done hydro detox 7 days of sick 7 days of saddness bitch once in a while alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll barable ... this not so much is any one taking a suppliment andy one taking anything that help has any one found anyhing that helps other than iv coma and has any one here tried iv coma to get off pills if so results and details ... im not in the uk but its seems to me it dont seem to much matter where you live if you take it and for a long period of time your body wont allow you to ge off  its like its not even my body any more ... im down to one a day just dosed down from two in the morning only... lowest i been in a wihle but im guessing these symptoms get way worse the more you take .. allot of the time i have to get up at 3 am and take onee just to be able to finish sleeping ..i need sleep i gotta be able to sleep ... i hadnt taken anything today wondering just how bad it would be its pretty late now and id say at about nine i could no longer take my arms and legs and had to take one ... its taking for ever to stop this feeling in my muscels or skin or what ever it is... has any one go off successfully and if so how long did it take before you were sleeping on your own and good again... how long before you were ready to be happy about life again....im on top of the world on these things and the deepest pits of hell off them ... i dont like it i dont like its control

Im going through the same exact thing :-) I have suffered with anxiety and depression since age 11. I hadnt even asked for a pain med, just simply went to a new fam dr. I flat out told him nothing like percs or vicoden. He puts me on trams that I thought by his exact words was a step up from Tylenol. Yea right. The opiate withdrawal symptoms I can handle no problem, still work 50hrs a week and raise 4 kids. But the anxiety and rls I cant take and ended up in the er 2weeks ago. They also did very little. Im now trying to do a slow taper. Im thinking of going on zoloft for a month before I taper down any more. Im so lost. I cant not function and am considering suing the dr because he knew my anxiety disorder history.

I was taking 15 50 mg pills a day for 3 years. When I decided to stop it was horrible. I was so sick and could barely function. Restless legs, nausea, vomiting,  broke out in a rash all over my body. Did I mention horrible? Indeed it was. I knew I had to stop as it was making my blood pressure dangerously high. Yea I felt good while I was on them but I didn't want to die. I stopped and it was 3 months of hell. It does get better and that's a choice you will have to make yourself. Withdrawels will not kill you but staying on the path your on just might. Withdraw go through it and regain your life back. It's very hard but being an addict is not a good life. I lost my job, my wife and a lot of money. It is not worth it.

Horrific! I was abusing my mothers prescription and had no idea i was withdrawing from tramadol. I would often take up to 15+ pills of 50mg. During my withdraws, i would cry for hours. I felt so hopeless and felt depressed. My doctor put me on Antidepressants. I've kept my addiction a secret from my family including my husband. I hate that i didn't look into the tramadol withdraw before. I regret ever taking any medication. I feel like i have ruined my life. Its all my fault. I can't tell anyone about this secrets or at least the people around me. Please keep your prescriptions away from children/ teenagers.