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1200968 tn?1291691019

Sleep...Long Lost Friend..

Im just going on Day 3 of no tramadol. I had been taking 300-400mg. a day for about a year for chronic back pain. Just decided Im tired of the cycle. My main concern now is sleep..which I am not getting. The leg twitching is bad,,get maybe 1 to 2 hours a night if that. Wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to get sleep. I am prescribed xanax..but no longer have any..Any suggestions would be great..
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1200968 tn?1291691019
to cheesburger..sorry on my 2nd post..my last comment was supposed to say I know this really s u c k s...but they bleeped it out..didnt want u thinking It was profane.
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1200968 tn?1291691019
Thank you all for the good advice. Worried..yeah I was taking too much of my xanax..like i said i ran out about a week early, but I dont see that as being my reason for no sleep because half the time I never took before bed. My tramadol habit was a little bit different. I got scripts of 120 and after a few days of having...I was chasing that high and taking up to 15 a day. So 10-12 a day for about a week and then to nothing on Tuesday. I did take the melatonin 6mg. last nite and had the heating padcranked up and I actually got 8 hrs. A miracle!! But I'm still struggling with the idea of "What will I do when my script is ready?" I had gone a week clean before and my meds were ready and I slipped back into the cycle. But thanks to all for the advice, hopefully this time around can be different..good luck to all...
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1201181 tn?1265391733
Hi. I, too, was prescribed tramadol...so I know what your going through. After being on it for over a year, my md one day just decided to cut me off of it with no prior warning or anything...  I didn't abuse it, only took it as needed, had legitimate pain...and even sometimes my scripts would last me several months, but my md still treated me like a drug-seeker and wouldn't budge on prescribing me at least one last prescription so I could taper myself off of them (thus giving me no choice but to go back to abusing opiates...ugggghhhhh...). I recently started suboxone and my sub dr. prescribed me something called Vistaril, which I think would help you. It's an anti-anxiety/antihistamine/sleep aid I was told. I actually only took it twice because it knocked me right out both times!  Unfortunately, I don't have the time to get the proper amount of sleep that I should be getting so these pills aren't good for me, as I only usually get like 2-4 hours of sleep at one time. They then leave me groggy and tired when I wake up.  But if you are able to get the recommended 8 hours of sleep a night, these pills should make you sleep soundly.  
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1159193 tn?1265479257
Sleeps a b a s t a r d . Im 35 days clean and just getting a few good night sleep lately. Try exercise, masturbation or sex - releases chemicals in brain that relaxes you. Ty Valerian root also good, or Kalms. Watch what you are taking don't swap one addiction for another.

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401095 tn?1351391770
oh...valerian root, melatonin, benadryl are otc drugs that can help

Safe RX drugs like phenergan, muscle relaxers excluding soma, and nerve drugs like neurontin and lyrica can also help with sleep
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401095 tn?1351391770
2 mgs of xanax is not a dose that should be suddenly stopped...xanax is the strongest benzo and very addicting..like trams..seizures can result with CT....be safe with the xanax...and if u decide to stop this drug for good..do it under a drs supervison..running out is a sign of addiction
ur dose of tram was not huge...up to 400 mgs is sometimes prescribed...200 mgs is the normal  dose of tram prescribed per day...thing is..u r out of xanax???  it is probable that ur sleeplessness is not due to tram wd but to xanax wd//perhaps both but xanax wd at 2 mgs a day is enuf to make many peeps pure miserable if they just jump off like u did...300-4000 mgs of trams is significant...there are those who take 1200 mgs of tram per day....a 2 mg xanax dose would be the tougher wd vs 3-400 mgs of trams for most peeps...altho both would be felt by most...we r all different....

Be sure of where ur probems lay...be sure which drug is causing u issues?  Course always best to take nuttin addictive if we tend to abuse
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  Oops-I meant Tramadol--yeah, you can see how clear headed I am kickin this stuff..but I'm clickin along!
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Aw, I don't know **** either, and thanks! But if your running out of xan's early-try to only take em for bed? I know, thats probably really hard too. Best of luck to both of us man! I'll be on here keeping up to date on how it's going.
   I wish I knew more about Ultram for ya! Hopefully someone on here will soon!!
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1200968 tn?1291691019
Thanks for the suggestions....i try to stay within my recommended dose for the xanax..which is .5 mg up to 4times daily...but sometimes i run out early. Monday I can get refilled. I do have melatonin 3mg..just found them today, I will try tonight. I was taking up to 3-4 tylenol pm a night just to fall asleep for 30 min. and be up the rest of the night. I had to quit the ultram...i just stopped cold...i had no choice, as I dont have anymore..so we wll see...good luck wd'ing...I know it really *****.
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  If you have the facultys not to abuse xanax, I'd consider getting it back...I'm tapering down from a 15 pill a day vicoden habit-I dont know what that relates to in tramadol mg's, BUT I'm takin 1.5 mg's of xanax at night and it's helping me curb opiate cravings and get much needed rest.
   It's tricky bussiness though, benzos. You gotta REALLY stick to your scrip-but if ya can, that stuff does help, at least for me. My best friend couldn't handle that stuff though, he had a dang seizure when he came off it-but he was taking alot..
  I'm also taking melatonin and L-theanine, and the combo is really helpin me sleep. I still wake up in the night, and if I'm havin a hard time gettin back to dreamland, I take OTC sleep aids-2 of em without the tylenol. They're called Simply Sleep..
   I hope that helps, and I wish you all the best!!
     Love and Luck! Lori
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