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5420258 tn?1406906657

FINALLY Tramadol Free!!

Well, folks - happy to come back and report that - I DID IT!! *releases bunches of colorful balloons and skips through fresh green meadow*

I didn't come by it easy so let me tell you how I did it. Indulge me? Thanks!

So backtrack to this past November, a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. Got in a fight with the hubby because my Tramadol habit was getting worse, while the money required to keep up the habit was getting higher. Since it was reclassed in August it's only been getting harder and harder to get. I was using an online pharmacy that would only ship HALF of what I usually needed to make it through the month at the same price I was paying for twice as much. It was getting rapidly out of hand.
So basically hubby suddenly one day tells me, "That's it." He refused to pay for one more pill. I pawned some things to get through another couple of weeks but then I was back at square one. I had no way to come up with that much cash that quickly. I'm only a stay at home mom so running out to work was not a possibility with my little guys.
That's when I realized - I was being forced to quit. Of course I fought back. Of course the fighting got REALLY bad initially. But once I calmed down hubby and I sat down and started to plan. He would take several days off work to take care of the kids and I would stay at my mom's place while she babysat me. We also visited my shrink to get some meds to help make the WD's easier: namely klonopins (nightmare pills that I'd never taken before), some BP meds and an anti-depressant. Great plan, huh? I was all set!
The week before Turkey Day came and we went grocery shopping so that my mom & I  would have plenty of food between us. The day we planned to start came. We dropped off our eldest at school and packed up to go out to my mom's place. Once I walked in the door I took my first k-pin and after that first hour I remember NOTHING.
Those things REALLY zapped my memory and the intention of "sleeping through" most of the WD's flew out the window as not only did these things black me out but they kind of gave me the opposite of lethargy. I was hyper as hell and would not calm down for anything. Drove my mom nuts for 2 solid days during which, I might add, I didn't eat a thing. Sigh.

Well on the 3rd day hubby brought me home. I went to bed and proceeded to sleep like a rock for a couple of days out of exhaustion. Once the k-pins ran out I had a bit of a freakout since reality was seeping in to my slumber cocoon but I quickly got over that and started to get back to "normal life".

Since all this happened I've had zero cravings for Tramadol and am now officially PILL FREE!! Yaay!!
I've placed an order for a plant called kratom tea powder that helped IMMENSELY with my WD's and now I'm tapering that as well so that I can stop myself from getting addicted to it.

Hubby is so proud of me that he's talking about putting me back on our bank account since he has no fear of me dropping 200 on 2 weeks' worth of pills anymore. 2015 is REALLY looking up for us!
Just wanted all of you on the addiction board to hear a success story!! :)
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Congrats! I have been on tramadol for the last couple years for knee pain. It was the only thing has ever helped, at all! I saw my doctor yesterday a,d he prescribed me voltaren (NSAID) and referred me to an orthopedic dr. I have a month and a half left before I will be off those darn devils! I am scared to go through the withdrawls that I have heard and read from people. Does anybody have any advice on how to get through it? I am alittle worried, but I dont want to take these the rest of my life!
Thanks!
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I guess I'm lucky when it comes to Tramadol. I remember being prescribed them a couple of times and they never seemed to help much so I never took more than a couple. Dodged a bullet there. Wish I'd dodged the fioricet/codeine bullet but I'm working on it.
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Just wanted to tell you congrats!! I too was addicted to trams and I know the hell you went thru to get off them.  So I'm very proud of you!! Keep it up:)
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5420258 tn?1406906657
I realize that pretty much no one on the board remembers me from the last time I checked in a few months back but I wanted to bump this thread to ensure that Nursegirl, at least, sees my update.

I want her to be proud of me. She knew I could do it. ;)
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11532111 tn?1421549858
that is great I always thought The Tramadol was a very bad drug it was hell on me the time i tried to stop ct which you are not supposed to do good job
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