Nidge2 wrote:
grandad wrote:
If it were that simple why isn't there an NHS clinic where addicts can go and be "fixed" in just 4-6 weeks. That would save the Country an absolute fortune both financially and emotionally.
The only place where you can go to get such intensive help is prison.
Because the Pharma companies make money out of the treatment, remember the profit is in the treatment and not in the cure.
There's only one way to come off it and that's cold turkey.
I'm going to blow the whole thing open here, I got addicted to Tramadol after being on them for years after smashing my back in down the coal mines, Tramadol is a synthetic heroin used as a painkiller but it gives you a feeling of weightlessness and pain free. After a time they weren't working so I went to the doctor, he increased the dose to over 600mg a day. I was like a spaceman I was floating, add in the morphine tablets I was a walking chemist.
Fast forward 5 years I was on over 2500mg of tramadol a day and 20mg of morphine tablets. Ten years later I went to see my doctor because I was shaking all the time, his diagnosis was, I was addicted to Tramadol and the synthetic heroin.
I went home and fired all the tablets, the doctor said that it's going to he hard for you. I locked all the doors turned all the phones off and went cold turkey, I've never sweated so much, shaking was there 24/7 for over a week, I didn't sleep for 2 weeks and like I said above I was sweating bullets.
In just under 4 weeks everything stopped, the sweating, the sleepless night and the shaking I was eventually free of Tramadol and the Synthetic Heroin.
Like I said, cold turkey is the only way to go.
Nidge and everyone else, Merry Christmas, and as somebody has already said, I hope something positive comes from these posts.
My back and spine has been deteriorating for years and I ended up on tramadol and other drugs at the top dosage levels and went through all the symptoms you described and more. One time funnily enough at an NTA AGM I had to leave the hotel in the early hours and stand in the car park because the drugs were playing with my mind that badly that I could not go back into the building, I was that frightened and it was all down to tramadol and co. I simply reduced the amount of everything I was taking and was clear within a fortnight. I had some rattles on the way, but none of that is comparable with coming off heroin, methadone etc.
When you are an addict, you are an addict for life whether it be drugs or drink or gambling. If you stop using it just means that you are a non user at that time. To regard what happened to you or me with what happened with tramadol is a misunderstanding. I have a son who has been a heroin addict for 20 years and for the last 5 years has been a non user (or clean as they describe it). The nightmare an addict goes through when he/she needs their next fix is nothing like tramadol, it's not a craving it is their whole body and mind wracked with pain and they will say or do anything to get that fix just to stop that pain for the next few hours. Not to make them feel normal like you and me, or to get high, but simply to get out of the pain. Once you are hooked into that type of dependency the money needed to fund their habit is far beyond a normal persons reach, so they steal whatever they can get their hands on, from their families who they love and who love them. That is the first few steps on what seems a never ending road of despair. Normal people do not know what to do next, how to bring their son or daughter back from this 'life'.
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