Hi all,
I’m new here, i tapered down 400 mg down to 10mg daily, at New Year’s Eve 12 o clock I stopped the intake of tramadol. I really really hope the symptoms are not as bad as I expect. I’m now almost 17 hours without any tramadol. I feel pretty calm and good.
I feel that I have some tightness in my lower back and my legs are freezing cold.
is this part of the journey?
I dont have much experience with opioids
Are you prescribed?
Thanks for your reply but serotonin syndrome is when you take to much of this medication, I just stopped after tapering
Yes that is normal. 48-96 hours will be the hardest but you need to just push through it. Stay hydrated, take hot baths with Epson salt and it will pass. Id you tapered down to 10mg it shouldn’t be that crazy. You got this
Update: I had a night shift before I stopped, I thought I would sleep very poor because of the withdrawal but actually I slept like a baby. My muscles feel very tight and I sneeze 50 times in 10 minutes 
Heyy friend
Sorry about being so direct in my last post
Sometimes i forget that just listening can be better then, direct solutions
Goodmorning 
Its 2:09am in Massachusetts usa
No problem mate, I know that feeling
it’s 08:27 am here in the Netherlands!
Super quick
Because your new here, the site will let you reply to comments only a few times before you need to wait to be allowed to reply again
You get badges for interacting with member throught giving hearts on their post, making a profile, shereing a video on youtube (could even be just a song you like, uploading a pic like even just your coffee maker. These are just a few. Also read as much as you can (which you can do as long as you want)(the magnifying glass can gelp you find posts with spcific details) after the site thinks your ok to, youll be able to.post as.much as you want. I dont know for sure but i think its a scammer protction thing for the members here
Any
Im matt
Addict alcoholic
Ive done
weed (thc dab pens are my drug of choice)
Alcohol
Coke
Crack
Meth
And smoked heroin while on a opiet blocker (stupidest thing somone can do, i could have easily od’ed)
I have been free of hard drugs and alcohol for almost 3 years
Nicotine free for for almost 2 years
And i had a slip on weed dab pens and cbd almost 2 years ago also
Dab pens and cbd dont sound too bad but with my experience a drug is a drug
No matter what drug it is, too much is too much
In one long post
Can you tell us maybe a little bit about your experience, strenght and hope with your addition and recovery. What are some good ideas that can help you
When your ready my friend
There is absolutely no rush
I’ll reply to you later with my story! I have a question for you:
You named up some drugs, when you stopped with those. Did you get a severe depression? If so: did you ever became yourself again?
I’m so scared I’ll get a depression or anything. I never had mental problems or anything (only temporary when I cold turkey Pregabalin)
If your like me you will get a bundle of bad feelings quitting
The drugs and alcohol mess with chemicals in our brains
Too much for too long makes our chemicals in our brains give more or less chemicals and we become dependent on those chemicals with the help of drugs and alcohol
Quitting messes with the balence of chemicals
But
THEY WILL RETURN TO NORMAL
My friend
I can only express this and i cant express this enough
Quitting drugs and alcohol saved my life, my marriage and family
Its really hard in the beginning
Id rather go 900days with nothing then go 1 day with nothing because in the beginning its the hardest. Your just starting your journey.
I want to.tell you something i want you to.take from me ok
In not long i will be 1000 days no alcohol or hard drugs.
That being said
I DO NOT MISS SUBSTANCE ABUSE. SUBSTANCES LIE AND BACKSTAB
I LIKE SOBRIETY MORE THEN BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
the longer streak i have sober and the more i go though while sober the more i learn how to stay sober
Man im not lieing to.you
Im not splealing AA sayings
This is me and my raw experience with almost 1000 days no hard drugs or alcohol
I dont now how many days exactly( need to cheack my counter) but i have like 970days no hard drugs or alcohol
Read on here
Connect with the winners
No1 will turn you away.even though some.may have tough love
We wont turn you away
Okay Matt, nice to meet you.
Here’s my story:
My name is Jan, back in 2018 I tore off my shoulder during a strongman competition. Had a surgery and the doctor put me on oxycodon. That was my first meeting with an opioid.
Before that incident I never touched drugs or anything.
back to the oxycodon. I took that stuff for like 2 years.. I noticed that my intake grew and grew and that the shoulder pain was gone.
Went to the doctor and told him I wanted to stop the oxycodon. Little did I know, he told me it needed to be tapered slowly..
I thought yeah right.. so I stopped it abruptly. Man o man did I screwed up.
went back to the doctor and started a taper plan. Man that stuff was a nightmare to come off.
I was “clean” for 3 months but since I stopped with the oxy, I had a backpain that no specialist could find out. It was terrible (probably just PAWS from oxy)
So the doctor wanted to put me on oxy again. I told him I never wanted back on that stuff.
Then he suggested to take tramadol in combination with pregabalin.
And gone was my backpain. I took pregablin 2 years when I said: okay I want to stop this.
I cold turkeyed the pregablin and boy my mental state collapsed. I had very dark thoughts, my heart rate went sky high and I was so restless.
That symptoms lasted like 2/3 months before it slowly reduced.
When I felt “normal” I started to taper the tramadol intake from 400 to 10 mg.
At New Year’s Eve I took my last dose and here we are, 34 hours “clean” now.
I’m done with medicines man!
Thanks for reading my story
My friend im.up.at 3:45 in the morning
My baby is sleeping warm on my side of the bed
My wife gives me everything and more and right now her leg is resting on my back while i lay sideways on the end of the bed while talking to you and i have to be at work at a supercenter grocery store to clean toilets and mop (store bitc* but its cool) for 9 hours and i need to be there in 2 hours to be on time
I wouldnt change this life for anything and i even have enough energy to do more
Quit drugs
And one day at a time
Exparience the best life you can get
Without the need of drugs or alcohol to make you feel normal
Read more on here
Read read read
And when you can post post post
Your experience can save a life
People on here say you need to do this or that to stay sober
I say
Take what you need from this place
Leave the rest
Dont pick up
Your post already helped me
I was diagnesed with a phycologocal mental illness is 2006
It was terrible
I took meds to help
Ive felt better for years and my dr even said i cam be tappered down my meds now
I have even though hell ill just stop and be done with it
Insted of learning the hard way and quit it all cold turkey i will taper down with the help.of.my dr like you and them said lol
Thank you jan
(Never use your full name, stay Annonomys) and you can shere here anytime
The more you read and interact here the quicker you will be able to post anytime as much as you want
Good luck today jan
Dont pick up
Hi Jan, another Dutchy here. Thanks for sharing your story, welcome to TS and congrats on deciding to do your life without drugs. I’ve never been on opioids myself, my DOC’s were weed, alcohol and tobacco, so I can’t comment or advise you specifically on that, other than to give my professional advice (I’m a mental health nurse working in addiction care). But since you are already stopped that doesn’t have much use now either right.
I admire your planning and execution so far. And your strength and willpower. I’d still advise you to get some medical advice, while I understand it’s a doctor and the medication he prescribed for way too long that got you in this mess in the first place. Every ‘richtlijn’ there is advises strongly against going of opioids without some substitution therapy, and tapering off of those substitutions. Of course all substitutes have their own risk of addiction as well I know. That’s why there are ‘richtlijnen’ for it.
Anyway, again, all success. Hope you find some support here Jan.
Heyyy.
I didnt know you are a mental health nurse
Much respect for you my good friend mno
Whenever i see you on here i pernounce your name monno lolll
Im sure thats kinda common though lol
It’s Menno. Many Americans think it’s Minnow when they first see or hear it, like the 
Monno is new for me friend 
Matt,
I’m Glad I could help you here. Tapering is the only way. I did cold turkey and I tapered, I already find out that tapering is the only save way to dodge severe withdrawal symptoms!
What do you need to taper down if I may ask?
I have a medication called gabapentine thats highly addictive
I take 300mg 3 times a day for anxiety and mood. It helps. But i hate the dependence. Maybe like 300mg at night would be nice.
But ofcouse the dream is no need for meds
My dr said she wants to keep my on my haldol (antiphycotic for my diagnosed schizophrenia ) becaise its always agreed with me
10mg a night with a low mg side effect med would be cool
Other then haldol and my side effect med i cam be decreased off meds slowley
One day at a time my good friend
We will get there
