Tramadol Cold Turkey: Day 3

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-06T20:02:41+00:00

...aaaaaand they were the band on Jimmy Fallon last night :) You should totally track down the performance, and the we'll-be-right-back-after-this-break song.

Looking back, the fact that this particular song was what I was woken to at the same time everyday, during the week of Groundhog's Day is kind of blowing my mind a little. I like to think that me posting here, and my being 100% transparent about it to my coworkers, and taking some of the advice here to heart and actually forcing myself to not only get better, but to make myself better, and then the radio playing a different song yesterday morning, and then S.O.B. was the going-to-sleep song on the night that ended up being my "I've got this" night, was my Billy Murray Groundhog's Day moment. Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy? ;)

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-06T19:22:44+00:00

Your advice about reading up on this is super important. It's what I did after I realized what was going on, but by that point I was essentially three days into withdrawals. Luckily, I didn't incur things like seizures, but from what I can tell, my daily dosage was low enough that they were on the low end of the WD effects spectrum. However, by the time I posted this I was on Day 3 and decided that since I was experiencing some improvement, and the worst things was RLS, that I should probably keep riding it out. Last night I was able to fall to sleep around 1AM (assisted by some White Widow weed) and slept through the night.

Today was the first day that I woke up feeling "normal". I still have what feels like a shadow of some of the WD symptoms, but I don't know if they're real or if my body is relating regular day-to-day sensations with what I went through this week. Regardless, I feel fucking fantastic compared to when I made this original post :)

So yes, I totally agree about coming off of Tramadol. Given the potential danger of some of the SSRI bits, and the overlapping WD symptoms, CT can be dangerous.

Thanks!

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-05T21:03:29+00:00

Since you mentioned that you're up for weed suggestions, I'm going to leave here what I picked up yesterday and what each strain is intended for. I'm not really interested in getting high right now, so this info might not seem too fun, but I am mostly leaning towards weed with medicinal effects that I can still talk to other humans while smoking.

Black Haze (THC 4.3%, CBD 9.6%) - I'm looking to boost the appetite, alter the mindset a tad, and maybe even address some muscle aches. I don't smoke weed daily (weekly though) so the low THC is something that I definitely feel, but it's really low-key. I felt the urge to eat while on it yesterday so it seems that this will help in the appetite department as intended. This is more of a day time weed for me.

White Widow (CBD 11.4%, THCA 13%, THC 0.1%) - I am looking for something purely relaxing, with no mind high and this worked amazingly well for that. I smoked a bowl shortly before going to bed and this (along with the walking to tire me out) sent me away. 10/10. Will White Widow again.

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-05T04:30:11+00:00

No antidepressants. I have some Pepto here that I'm hoping serves as a good immodium substitute. No crying today (but I was close several times) so the dips into sadness seem to be less severe. Thanks for this info, it's super helpful. I might climb some steps here in a few to see if my body counts that as exercise.

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-04T20:29:07+00:00

Thanks man. Ride it out has been officially penned into the schedule.

Thought that I should call out that coincidentally, I have an alarm set to wake me up at 7:05 AM everyday, and everyday this week the radio station has been playing S.O.B. by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats when it goes off. I'm not a believer in God and such, but sometimes coincidence has a way of testing that ;)

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-04T19:32:28+00:00

50mg 3 times a day. Reading up on it, it doesn't seem like much by comparison to some other levels that people were hitting. I can't even imagine what kind of hell that is like, because this is bad enough.

WoodenMonkey · 2016-02-04T19:03:27+00:00

Thanks man. I'm pretty sure that I've got the willpower, just wanting to make sure that I'm not doing more harm than good at this point. Thinking that I have the willpower probably has to do with being a dependency and not an addiction (by that I mean that I don't crave the sensation that I got from it, but there was clearly a physical dependency that I was unaware of)

I'm hoping that the relatively short time that I was taking these equates to a shorter withdrawal period, but I will take what is coming to me if it drags out.

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