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going cold turkey from tramadol

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seamus_cass
seamus_cass

i had l5 s1 surgery 3 months ago now. i was put on co-codimol and tramadol. i decided on sunday night that i would take my last tablet and not take anymore. didnt think it was going to be as hard as its turned out. its now wednesday morning, approx 60 hours from last meds. vomitting, headache, shivers, cant settle, cant sleep and in pretty low mood. went up to see my doctor this morning and he said just to ride it out. he reckons im over the worst of it now. he give me something to settle stomach and bowel. i just want to be able to sleep. the doctor said he could give me diazepalm but i refused on the basis its just replacing one addiction for another. 

anyone else went through this??

thanks

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  • Steve1953
    Steve1953 seamus_cass

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    All i can say is it takes five to six days before those horrible withdrawal symtoms start to lift. Most people will probably disagree with me but by going cold turkey you are doing the best thing, I know it is pure hell but after a week you will have broken your phisical addcition. If you tapper down in my experiance you will have many minnie withdrawals as you reduce and when you jump off the last 50mg you will still suffer a withdrawal and tapering can take weeks or months. I read somewhere it is because of the half life of Tramadol that makes it hard to taper off. It's all about resolve and how much you want it. I found the low mood and depressive thought worst than any pysical symtomes but you have to ride it out. If you cant hack cold turkey you will have to try and taper its one or the other anyway. 
  • lizidee
    lizidee seamus_cass

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    Same symptoms as me but I was only on for 3 weeks.  Took me a week to get back to normal.  Got very drunk on day 7 Tramadol free and slept from 9:30 till 7am and been fine since.
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