Need ANY HELP AT ALL!!

Get the the Doctors that's a very high doses your taking  I take 6x2mg per day plus amitriptyline at night to sleep during the day I'm in pain have you tried a SI belt support ? I use one 

First of all stopping and having a stretching routine would help with stiffness in your line of work. It doesnt have to be long but blood circulation is very important. I don't know if you work out of your home or not but there are many alternatives in the way of supportive chairs. We used a huge excersize ball for a while and you can bounce and keep moving on it. there are also lumbar supports you can buy that attach to any chair. 

Weaning is the only way to get off this stuff. If you log how long it takes to feel withdrawal symptoms then give yourself a half day more before you take it, your body will learn and not freak out afterwhile. Preventing the back pain thus the need for pain relief can help you come at it from both angles. Taking something mild to calm your nreves as you wean will help. Its amazing how your body will create a need by creating pain to get you to take it. Its bizzare how our brains work.

I expect 3 months to wean off myself and Im on a low dose so please give your self time and do this gradually, then evaluate your muscle tone and start giving your back support by working on your core and sitting up straight with good choices in chairs that encourage good posture. 

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Wow.... I was having trouble getting the doctor to prescribe me enough for 400mg daily!  I have found the support and advice from people on this site invaluable and am now down to 200mg daily.  After many failed attempts to reduce my dose in the past I have found it much easier this time-mainly from not rushing the process and taking extra vitamins to help my body cope with the change.  I have been reducing just 50mg per week and also keeping a daily diary of my progess and not so good days.  I  started taking slimfast before taipering souly for the vitamin boost and 2000mg daily of calcium and magnesium.  I have done quite a bit of reading about tramadol also and i think it has helped having a better understanding of the drug.  Now that I have just managed to half my daily dose I am planning to stay as I am for at least a couple of weeks to let my body adjust and accept the reduction before trying another drop.  I am feeling more like my old self again...for the first time in seven years 😃 Have a look at the thread i put up about a month ago asking for help..... The advice I recieved might help you also!! GOOD LUCK x

Its really hard. I take half of whatever I have and put it in a spot i dont like to go. Like I put in husband side of sink. so when I go over there I know I am not supposed to. Like reconditiong the mind. It is hard, I hurt sometimes but any addiction is hard.  they messed up by giving you so much.  you have to get away from it and fight for it or this will never end. It was hard for me.

I am shocked they are giving you such a high dose.  I've seen some on here, taking them at that high of a dose to get a buzz--using internet doctors to obtain the pills.  My OD told me that 6 50mg tabs a day is the safest dose (I only took 4 at my highest, I am now down to 100 mg a day) and that anything higher greatly increases the risk of seizure.  Honestly, makes me mad at your doctor on your behalf.  I don't think a lot of these docs truly get the risks.  My OD regularly perscribes it, but the doctor I first got it from didn't.  I was using hydrocodone for the pain and wanted off, it wasn't working anymore and I was hurting too badly.  I get, all too well, the horrible merry go round of chronic pain.  At one point I found myself cryng and pacing in circles (because it hurt so bad I couldn't hold still) waiting for the hydrocodone to kick inn.

I do think the positive part is that you are taking tablets, the XR tabs were horrible to stop, I have never been so sick, and I only took the for a month.  I was able to cut my use by 1/2 without getting sick (tablets) but yours is so high.  You would need to taper.  Now that I'm at 100mg cutting back made me sick so I am sticking at the 100mg for awhile and will cut back again.

I think you need a doctor who knows what they are doing to give a taper schedule. If that is not possible-- I have seen many others say you need to wait at least 2 weeks before you drop again from whatever you drop initially.  Because you are taking so much I don't know what to suggest you even start with.  I think you would find it easier if you can get them in a lower dose tablet.  Cutting those tablets consistently will probably be hard outside of 1/2 or 1/4ths. 

My heart goes out to you.  I know for me right now they don't work nearly as well and my pain level has really gone up.  That is why I am trying to go off them--to stop for long enough that they might help me again.  I'm too scared to take more than 200mg a day. 

There is some kind of medication out there, I wish I remembered the name, that some inpatient treatments can give that basically wash the receptors.  I don't think you can do it other than in patient though.  Tramadol binds to your receptors somehow.  I think it might be Suboxtone

I don't know with that particular drug, I'm going cold turkey after for years on sertaline for PTSD. The way I did it ...now into my third week, was try and clear as much of my calender as poss..hard with three teenage girls..out them in the picture.. And sorry to say ..then deal with it..aches pains. Tears..that's why I came on here tonight. I was so desperate but unwinding now. Try and avoid stress best you can. I found if the girls are at me or work is testing. I get the jelly wobbles. Not pleasant and not easy