let me help you out here. i was addicted to Ultram from the time it came out until Feb 5th 2005. DONT try to quit it cold turkey. i ended up in the ER. secondly tell someone if you havent already, it is tons easier with help. now my advice to you if your going to taper. from what i have seen of ultram is the w/d dont really set in for around 20 hours from your last dose. so set a time at night to take the meds, start with a dose that keeps you comfortable. then start a slow taper of 50 mgs every week to 10 days, when you start the tapering add some benadryhl to it like 2 or 3 gel tablets. this really worked wonders for me at one time i was up to 750 mg a day and got all the way down to 150. i hope this works for you.
Thanks for the advice. I typically took 250 mg x 3 per day. However, recently I switched from the 50 mg pills and started talking the 200 mg ER tablets 2 x morning, 2 x night. Over the past 2 days I have cut that in half, taking 1 x 200 mg at about 8:00 am and another 1 x 200 mg at 8:00 pm. So far it is okay - a little crampy and lethargic, but OK. I am seeing my doctor on Tuesday afternoon and will come clean to him then. I never got the pills from him and I trust him. My plan was to cut to 150 mg ER twice day and then down to 100 mg ER twice a day and finally 50 mg ER twice a day before stopping altogether. I was going to go 2-3 days between each step down, but from people's advice on this site, I think I may increase that a bit. I hope I am not just tryingto delay the inevitable. I have also told my therapist who is bieng supportive.
Please keep the advice coming. To complicate matters, I am an insulin dependant diabetic and this stuff screws with my blood sugars. If it is not one thing, it is another.
Thanks again.
Tim
Please keep the advice coming. To complicate matters, I am an insulin dependant diabetic and this stuff screws with my blood sugars. If it is not one thing, it is another.
Thanks again.
Tim
Hi Everyone
This is the very first time I've used this site and I have to admit I am feeling a little better about my odds - at least for now.
For those of you who have had to suffer withdrawals from Ultram, you have my prayers. I, too, became hooked on this stuff in the early 1990's after my then-doctor assured me it was non-narcotic and as safe as Tylenol. HA. By the time 1997 rolled around I was using 20-30 a day! The first doctor that prescribed them for me would actually give me a huge bag full of samples (hundreds of pills) but then he moved to New York and the other Doc in the practice took over, he left me on the pills but no more free goodies.
Pretty messed up, huh? Then, the worst happened, just a couple of hours before I was to board a plane to Minnesota for a week long business conference (with my mother no less), my pharmacist called my Dr. and informed me he thought I was abusing my prescription. At that time I thought "who the **** did he think he was?" The doc cancelled my prescrition. Well, needless to say, by the time I was in the air I was SICK. I spent the entire week in Minnesota wishing I'd get his by a train.
I eventually found other docs to get them from even though I had already detoxed, I started back. The good side (yea, right) was that on the Ultram I lost lots of weight! Anyway, that addiction eventually led me to prefer oxycodone and now I've been an addict for almost 12 years. I can remember a time when I was happy and successful and had dreams for myself.
As strange as it sounds to docs, I can manage to not go into withdrawals from the oxy as long as I take the Ultram. How can they still classify that drug as "non-narcotic"? So, I've been totally out of oxy for almost a week and I've only been taking the ultram. Today, I've taken my last 3 ultram and I know that by this time tomorrow I'm going to wish I would get hit by that bus again. I am so scared, but I have to do it. I've gotten in major legal trouble, landed in jail for a day, all because of my addiction. It has to end, but God help me, I've never been more afraid than I am right now.
raven
This is the very first time I've used this site and I have to admit I am feeling a little better about my odds - at least for now.
For those of you who have had to suffer withdrawals from Ultram, you have my prayers. I, too, became hooked on this stuff in the early 1990's after my then-doctor assured me it was non-narcotic and as safe as Tylenol. HA. By the time 1997 rolled around I was using 20-30 a day! The first doctor that prescribed them for me would actually give me a huge bag full of samples (hundreds of pills) but then he moved to New York and the other Doc in the practice took over, he left me on the pills but no more free goodies.
Pretty messed up, huh? Then, the worst happened, just a couple of hours before I was to board a plane to Minnesota for a week long business conference (with my mother no less), my pharmacist called my Dr. and informed me he thought I was abusing my prescription. At that time I thought "who the **** did he think he was?" The doc cancelled my prescrition. Well, needless to say, by the time I was in the air I was SICK. I spent the entire week in Minnesota wishing I'd get his by a train.
I eventually found other docs to get them from even though I had already detoxed, I started back. The good side (yea, right) was that on the Ultram I lost lots of weight! Anyway, that addiction eventually led me to prefer oxycodone and now I've been an addict for almost 12 years. I can remember a time when I was happy and successful and had dreams for myself.
As strange as it sounds to docs, I can manage to not go into withdrawals from the oxy as long as I take the Ultram. How can they still classify that drug as "non-narcotic"? So, I've been totally out of oxy for almost a week and I've only been taking the ultram. Today, I've taken my last 3 ultram and I know that by this time tomorrow I'm going to wish I would get hit by that bus again. I am so scared, but I have to do it. I've gotten in major legal trouble, landed in jail for a day, all because of my addiction. It has to end, but God help me, I've never been more afraid than I am right now.
raven
Raven,
Just wanted to say my prayers are with you. I know the feeling of wanting to run my car off a bridge or get hit by a bus! Try calling your doctor and asking for help! I don't know anything about Ultram. Stay on the board for a while it may help just knowing others have been through it. Hang in there! Rae
Just wanted to say my prayers are with you. I know the feeling of wanting to run my car off a bridge or get hit by a bus! Try calling your doctor and asking for help! I don't know anything about Ultram. Stay on the board for a while it may help just knowing others have been through it. Hang in there! Rae
Raven..Abrupt withdrawal from ultram can cause siezures and death. Don't screw around with your life like that. Call a dr, get to the ER NOW.
They will help you detox and hopefully push you in the right direction to get help beyond the detox.
You're in trouble...you can not do this on your own. The worst of it isn't even in the first couple of days, you may not make it to day 3 or 4. Please get help.
Cowgirl
They will help you detox and hopefully push you in the right direction to get help beyond the detox.
You're in trouble...you can not do this on your own. The worst of it isn't even in the first couple of days, you may not make it to day 3 or 4. Please get help.
Cowgirl
Cowgirl,
Long story short - I haven't been back on the Ultram like before - not since I discovered I had a hidden "talent" of forging prescriptions, so I've been on the stronger stuff for quite awhile. I was using oxycodone (Tylox, Percocet) in huge amounts for months and months so I really had the Ultram out of my system. I have a prescription for 90 Ultram monthly for legit rhumatoid arthritis but I hadn't been taking it as long as I was using the better stuff. I just went back to the Ultram last week when I was busted by one of our DOH agents who was looking out for me to show up on some pharmacy's sign-out log for narcotics. I'm hoping that since I've only been using the Ultram for a short period of time (this time) and I've been without the other stuff for over a week that I can lessen my withdrawal symptoms. At least that's the plan anyway. I have to get clean this time for good. I was finally caught forging scripts and was so stupid I managed to probably get myself kicked out of the PTI I was eligible for by picking up this second charge. What a dumb a**, right?
Anyway, let me know what you think guys. I know that I can't do this alone, but at the moment the only people who know about my problem is you, my attorney, my local sheriff's department and my pastor. I'm just not strong enough to tackle more than one obstacle at a time. Who knows, maybe I'll talk to my family one day, but not before I'm on the other side of this hell.
love to each of you
raven
Long story short - I haven't been back on the Ultram like before - not since I discovered I had a hidden "talent" of forging prescriptions, so I've been on the stronger stuff for quite awhile. I was using oxycodone (Tylox, Percocet) in huge amounts for months and months so I really had the Ultram out of my system. I have a prescription for 90 Ultram monthly for legit rhumatoid arthritis but I hadn't been taking it as long as I was using the better stuff. I just went back to the Ultram last week when I was busted by one of our DOH agents who was looking out for me to show up on some pharmacy's sign-out log for narcotics. I'm hoping that since I've only been using the Ultram for a short period of time (this time) and I've been without the other stuff for over a week that I can lessen my withdrawal symptoms. At least that's the plan anyway. I have to get clean this time for good. I was finally caught forging scripts and was so stupid I managed to probably get myself kicked out of the PTI I was eligible for by picking up this second charge. What a dumb a**, right?
Anyway, let me know what you think guys. I know that I can't do this alone, but at the moment the only people who know about my problem is you, my attorney, my local sheriff's department and my pastor. I'm just not strong enough to tackle more than one obstacle at a time. Who knows, maybe I'll talk to my family one day, but not before I'm on the other side of this hell.
love to each of you
raven
Raven, all you did was substitute one opiate for another. It is as if you were taking the ultram the entire time. Your body and mind don't know the difference.
Just be really careful. Keep an eye on your symptoms and vitals. If you feel like your in trouble, you probably are and then it's time to reach out to health professionals.
I don't want anything to happen to you. Right now you feel like you can do this, because you still have the ultram..it's going to be a different story when you're out.
Please take care
Cowgirl
Just be really careful. Keep an eye on your symptoms and vitals. If you feel like your in trouble, you probably are and then it's time to reach out to health professionals.
I don't want anything to happen to you. Right now you feel like you can do this, because you still have the ultram..it's going to be a different story when you're out.
Please take care
Cowgirl
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