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Tramadol
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I've been given these by my doctor for my back and while I was in his surgery I'm sure he said take 2 to 3 at a time, whilst the packet says 1 to 2. They come in 50mg tablets and to be honest just 2 don't do anything at all.
Does anyone know if 3 at that doseage would be safe?
Does anyone know if 3 at that doseage would be safe?
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if tehy do 200mg tabs id assume takign up to 4 at once would be ok, whether or not it would be wise is a different matter
If they aren't working talk to your GP again - maybe just give a call to the surgery and ask him to call you back with some advice, and some guidance on dosage. He may even be able to recommend or prescribe something that will help in tandem with it.
cheers for lettin me kno bout the slow release stuff id have never realised before! :thumb:
Though GQ: I'm not suggesting you take 250mg within an hour; that would be a bad idea.
Because i found them so good i kept the rest but i never used them. The other half did when he had some chronic pain and was only given valtaren, he found them pretty addictive and i stopped him taking them.
So all in all, great painkiller...but use it as little as possible.
I'd better explain, for as long as I can remember no matter how many hours' sleep I get, I always wake up totally knackard. It's been like for so long I've just accepted it. I'm usually then yawning til after midday.
But when I've taken 100ml Tramadol and 4ml diazepam, I wake up feeling absolutely awesome and refreshed and in all my 34 years I cannot remember ever feeling like that forst thing in the morning.
The only thing I can think of is together they put me in such a deep sleep that I recharge myself like never before. The other day I went to bed at 1am, woke up at 7am and felt totally refreshed and clear.
The NHS helpline said it would be safe to take the 2 types of medication together and that they would only enhance the others' effect - I had no idea to that extent!
Good plan, using any chemical long term to put you to sleep is a bad idea.
I'm certainly not going to up the doseage, I'd rather stay off them a while. Question is, on average how long does it take for such a tolerance to settle down again?
Tramadol certainly has addiction potential, and valium is both mentally and physically addictive.
But together they were giving the night's sleep I've always deserved however that no longer happens. I'd only do it maybe once or twice a week.
So the question still stands, how long does it take for a tolerance level to settle back down?
I suggest you research benzo addiction just a little before you try doing this. It is one of the few addictions which you can die from withdrawl.
Natural tolerances will vary, the first time I took diazepam, 4 mg wouldn't touch me. I was prescribed 2 mg's.
I stress I've never needed anything to get off to or stay asleep, and I still don't. It's just taking the tablets takes me deeper asleep. Now it's just back to normal.
Yes that's exactly it, 2 x 2mg diazepam. If I just took those they do nothing at all whatsoever.
Then DO NOT TAKE IT, trust me I know what it is like not to sleep, I only get a max of 4 hours at a stretch every night but you really do not want to go down the route of using depressives.
If you do, good luck and come back here for advice when it becomes more often than once a week.
2mg can send someone off to sleep, yet 10mg can only just affect someone else. Tolerence will depend on each person too.
Maybe nobody has an answer because people dont tend to stop long enough to find out once they have used it long enough to build up a tolerence.
if you dont really need it to get to sleep then dont bother. what use is a once a week deep sleep anyway?? you wont be able to carry it on for the rest of ya life.
you were posting about codeine werent u a while back?? Now its tramadol. Theyre both related to heroin ya'know.
No-one has given me any indication whether it's possible to regain my body's levels after maybe a week or so considering I've only been taking diazepam for about 3 to 4 weeks. That's all I wanted to know - is a week or two an unreasonable amount of time to expect.
I always wake up feeling like a zombie, almost as tired as when I went to bed. When I take these tablets this doesn't happen - I get an awesome night's sleep. THIS is why I taken them. I'm happy to only take them once a week. If you don't have the same sleep problems as myself then it's easy to see why you don't understand my point. By the way the whole issue of why I wake up feeling so bad is a seperate matter so please let's not go down that road.
Yes I've posted about Tramadol but from reading my posts you'll know that tramadol alone does nothing for me, I don't feel anything different after taking it.
And just to be clear, I would never EVER go near the 'hard' stuff, such as heroin. Anything I do take will come from a doctor's prescription.
The reason people are reluctant to tell you how quickly your tolerance will go down is that it is very hard to say. You may be able to continue to use this way once a week, but the temptation for it to become more often is going to be there and the risk of physical addiction is serious.
First of all I DO appreciate everyone's comments - I'm aware I come across as more than a little abrasive occasionally but I'm grateful for those who take the time to reply. He didn't quite prescribe them for 4 weeks - initially I went and he prescribed them, no problem. Once the course was up (which was around 2 weeks later) I went back and asked for me. I explained to him the reason I was back so soon was I went through them rather quickly, not knowing how many I'd need to take in order to feel any kind of effectiveness. I found I needed to take 4 to 5 of them in one go for them to have an effect on the pain. Considering they came in a pack of 28, they didn't last long. When prescribing them a second time, he spent about 20 minutes explaining how addictive they can be, what they do, where they can lead and even told me of a few ladies in their 80s he has coming to him, they are properly addicted to them as a sleeping aid and because of their age and dosage levels will never ever come off them.
If I can get these to work for me just oince a week then I'll be more than contented to keep it at that rate. I'm aware the temptation will be strong, but I'm more than confident that once a week will be manageable.
Personally I am still surprised that a GP is willing to prescribe valium on a medium to long term basis, its an incredibly dangerous thing to do.