another tramadol question - Alcie?

I never heard of Ryzolt before. 24 hour and instant release too! Sounds really good. Asacol could be responsible for the hot flushes. You don't really have enough regular tramadol for a taper.

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Alcie

 

 

I had to go off my tramadol for a few days, discovered my problems weren't from that but another med, possibly plus my vitamin or some food. I'm doing much better on my extended release tramadol, 100 mg gets me through the night. But it doesn't work well at all if I am late and let the pain build up.

I like not having to remember to take a second instant release pill in the middle of the night, or at noon. I can get away with just the night ER about 8PM and an IR about 2 or 3PM the next day.

Tramadol isn't enough for surgical pain or sciatica, but it helps some. I take it mainly for fibromyalgia muscle pain, and for that it does a better job than Vicodin.

I sometimes think my middle name is guinea pig. It's totally up to me to figure out what treatment works for what condition and on what schedule.

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Alcie

 

 

tramadol is a mild opiate [synthetic] with a molecular stucture similar to venlafexine [effexor]. tramadol binds weakly to the mu-opioid receptor and has serotonin reuptake inhibition like the SSRI. if it is discontinued abruptly you have mild abstinence effects of opiates and SSRI's.

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L4,L5,S1 bilateral Laminectomies, Foraminotomies 2002
L4-S1 PLIF with instumentation 2008

current Rx: MScontin 100mgs 2x, dilaudid 8mgs 4x p.r.n.phenergan 25mg 3x prn, cymbalta 60mg 1x,Adderall 20mgs 2x zanaflex 4mg 3x, relafen 1000mg 1x, xanax 0.5mg 2x prn

 

 

 

songlady...  It sounds like withdrawel symptoms to me. I have read this can happen when you abruptly go off tramadol.

 

i hope it goes easier for you by tapering off. I can relate to some of what your going thru. I had the worse hot flashes imaginable. I was in total misery. Taking hormone replacement worked wonders for me, till my doctor cut me off. You know cause of the risk of heart disease. I told her , I don't care, i'll take the chance, this is too awful. She wouldn't budge though.

 

I'm glad to hear your hip replacement went so well. My left hip is quite bad, and I know I need a THR too. So my doc gave me a referral to see a rheumy, but I can't get in till march 17th!!  Also I have no insurance, so what can I do but wait?

 

Blessings, Debbie

 

 

 

 

Song lady, how wonderful that your hip replacement has turned out so well for you.

I have read that a high percentage of THRs are quite successful.

 

I know exactly what it's like to not be able to get around like you use to. Things we take for granted like getting in and out of cars. With me the small things are not so bad, but what is hard is not being able to walk a long ways for excercise. Really miss it so much.

 

 My Dh and I are actually planning to move back to my home state of California in Dec. Lots of family there, and I can get medical help there , much better than here in Md.

My hips are bad, but I can still manage for awhile longe, I hope! Believe it or not, just buying a 4 inch thick 5 1/2 lb. density memory foam mattress has reduced my hip pain significantly during the night.

Thanks for the reply, and I hope you really enjoy your new hip.

God is good isn't He?   

 

 Peace & Joy,   Debbie       

I know this is long but I'm desperate for some answers and Im a lil stressed.
Hello. I am 17 with fibro. I started taking Tramadol like 4 months ago because I cant take NSAIDS or narcotics. Take 2 pills twice a day, doctor and instructions say i can take 2 pills every 6 hours. But i ussualy wait around 9 or 10. First time I took it I felt HIGH, as a kite Couldn't stop laughing, scary, but felt great. Leveled out, no more high, drastically reduced my pain for a long period of time. UNTILL like ALL drugs i take, it stopped working well or at all after a few months.

Doctor then prescribed a topical patch that releases a version of lidocaine to numb the pain a little, called Lidoderm. Didnt take tramadol the day before(but i have skipped a day or two of Tramadol before with no down side or symptoms). Woke at 10, got a massage, put Bio Freeze on neck and back and put the patch on neck and back a few minutes later. Within 30 seconds I was hysterical. Hyperventilating to a point. SO uncomfortable I would have preferred acute pain to the dull tingly BLECH that I was experiencing. Couldnt stop crying. Doc said to try to leave them on the full 12 hrs, took them off 5 hours later at 9pm.

That night couldnt get comfortable any where in my house, couldn't sleep. By early morning I had a 99 fever, not quite a 100 but since i run natually lowwww 96 or 97 this is high for me. Had a fever, sweats/chills, swollen painful glands, terrible earache, and felt achey flu-like all over(differently than I feel with Fibromyalgia) It was awful.

At 1pm when I was still not tired ( and been up for 27hrs) I decided to try and take a Tramadol even though they had stopped working for me, hoping for any kind of relief. Within the hour my tremors and sweats/ chills stopped, fever went down, temp back to my reg cool 97. Everything was fine, except the Tramadol made me REALLY HIGH again, just like it used to months ago....
???!????!?

Withdrawal? Tramadol/ Ultram withdrawal? Doesn't make sense cause i have been off of Tramadol before for just as long with out noticing any real difference. PLUSSS I was all fine and dandy until the SECOND I put the Lidoderm patch on, then everything fell down hill. Was it the Lidoderm trauma, BIO FREEZE, or what? Was I just sick and the Tramadol somehow fixed it?

If anyone could lend a suggestion, or anything really would help. I like the pain relief from the tramadol but not the high I get, plus the events of this past day scare the bonkers out of me and I would feel better with answers.
Thanks for reading - really anything would be really helpful.

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Tramadol, Lidoderm, Nystatin, Flexeril, LoraQuil, Vit D, Doxycyline, Serene, Calm PRT

 

I take Tramadol too, from 2 -4 a day depending on my pain on any given day.

Alcie is right, it can ibteract with many medicenes, but some people have no problems with it.

It turns out for me, I can't take anything else I have tried so far with it except Flexeril, 1 at night.  And if I take them too close together I will have muscle twitches.   I really need something better to help me sleep, but even prescribed sleeping meds w/ Tramadol cause me severe nausea.

When I tried switching Tramadol to tylenol 3/codeine, I went thru pretty bad withdrawal, so keep this in mind. My recent PCP told me Yramadol does not cause withdrawal, but I know better. I even read user reviews about it, and there is no doubt, unless all those people were lying!

I'm finding more and more amazing how so many doctors do not know as much as they think they do.

I hope you find something that will wprk for you, it can take some time to find the right meds for this illness, as we are all different in how meds affect us.

Blessings

Debbie