when the doctor gives you pills...
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...check them out online BEFORE you buy them! doctors give you pills that get you hooked without telling you! i went to my Primary Care Physician (PCP) coz i have Patellarofemoral Syndrome (or however you spell it) which is when your knee caps slide out of place and cause damage in the cartilage, because of structural issues in your leg. so my knees hurt 24/7, and i told him that. he gave me this thing called Tramadol (Altram)
i take the pill thinking they r normal pain pills. i start sleeping literally 16 hours out of the day, and i start getting tolerant, meaning it takes more n more pills for the pain to go away. i got to taking several 100mg pills a day, every day😥 i mentioned it to a friend who is a nurse n she was like... "really? have you read up on that medication?" i told her no. she goes, "Altram is an opiate. it can cause serious drowsiness and be addictive." i was like 😱😱😱 no more of that crap for me, fwk it!
never going to the damn pharmacy again without doing my research😡 -
Especially if he offers you a red or a blue pill make sure you know your stuff before pickIng.
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He just gots some purple pills from Canada
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It's Ultram, not Altram. It's never made me sleepy & I suffer from hypersomnia. I actually can't take it past noon. I'll look it up again but I thought it was an NSAID, not an opiate.
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Hmm, I was on Tramadol (still have the pain bottle around here some where - oh well I'll find it later) for 3 years and it did the opposite to me when I 1st started taking in they had to slowly ween me onto it because it kept me awake for days
😋 but it did help the pain
The only reason I'm not on it now was because I started doing Yoga and cut way down on my meds 😉 -
YOU wrote:
OK, not an NSAID; it's an opiate agonist whose "actions are not like that of other opioids."It's Ultram, not Altram. It's never made me sleepy & I suffer from hypersomnia. I actually can't take it past noon. I'll look it up again but I thought it was an NSAID, not an opiate.
It helps with my pain & doesn't make me drowsy, which is what I care about.
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Ultram is a NON-OPIATE derived synthetic "opioid". It's pretty wimpy as far as pain medications go. In fact, Ultram is what I give drug-seekers when they come to my ER looking for pain meds, because it's not a narcotic. As far as physicians "getting you hooked" on medications, please stop. TAKE ALL MEDICATIONS AS PRESCRIBED.
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MK💉Ultra wrote:
👍👍Ultram is a NON-OPIATE derived synthetic "opioid". It's pretty wimpy as far as pain medications go. In fact, Ultram is what I give drug-seekers when they come to my ER looking for pain meds, because it's not a narcotic. As far as physicians "getting you hooked" on medications, please stop. TAKE ALL MEDICATIONS AS PRESCRIBED.
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MK💉Ultra wrote:
i did take them as prescribed. until i got hooked. 😒 either way im off the awful things now, pain be damned. physical therapy and exercise has made the pain bearable, so i dont need them anymore😒Ultram is a NON-OPIATE derived synthetic "opioid". It's pretty wimpy as far as pain medications go. In fact, Ultram is what I give drug-seekers when they come to my ER looking for pain meds, because it's not a narcotic. As far as physicians "getting you hooked" on medications, please stop. TAKE ALL MEDICATIONS AS PRESCRIBED.
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btw, ur a doc?
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irridescent✨ wrote:
How long did you take them? I've been taking my 1 pill of Ultracet (Tramadol + Tylenol) for at least 6 years, probably longer.MK💉Ultra wrote:
i did take them as prescribed. until i got hooked. 😒 either way im off the awful things now, pain be damned. physical therapy and exercise has made the pain bearable, so i dont need them anymore😒Ultram is a NON-OPIATE derived synthetic "opioid". It's pretty wimpy as far as pain medications go. In fact, Ultram is what I give drug-seekers when they come to my ER looking for pain meds, because it's not a narcotic. As far as physicians "getting you hooked" on medications, please stop. TAKE ALL MEDICATIONS AS PRESCRIBED.
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..what I can't understand that if you had concerns instead of looking it up on the net why you didn't contact your own doctor with FIRST!? Maybe still speak to him about it.
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It is not an opioid. It's an opioid antagonist. Which means people addicted to opioids could be thrown into withdrawals if they take it.
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You're 180 degrees out, Keyser. Tramadol is a weak opioid AGONIST, not antagonist. Tramadol binds weakly to opiate receptors, and so acts as a sort of half-ass opiate.
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Communication with your dr. is important. I always ask questions to dr. and pharmacist on each med I get. Also repost back to doc on how it makes me feel.
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Tramadol is a "mimic" of an opiod meaning it acts on the exact neuro receptors as our regular opiates with one major difference- it does not cause respiratory depression.
Tramacet is a mix of Tylenol and tramadol so it can be classified as an NSAID
It is important to note that you can not get hooked on any pain killers IF you are having pain because the drug gets pickedup by the pain receptors and NOT your central nervous system (which is where your addiction cycle would begin if you were to take opiate if you have no pain).
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The problem is everyone thinks they are an expert and/or they believe everything they read on the Internet.
As already said, if you have concerns about your meds discuss it with your doctor.
Also, I'm very interested in what you mean by "hooked" on tramadol. Did you have to complete a methadone programme to come off it?
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Mystery wrote:
Same for punchy. He takes it three times a day.YOU wrote:
OK, not an NSAID; it's an opiate agonist whose "actions are not like that of other opioids."It's Ultram, not Altram. It's never made me sleepy & I suffer from hypersomnia. I actually can't take it past noon. I'll look it up again but I thought it was an NSAID, not an opiate.
It helps with my pain & doesn't make me drowsy, which is what I care about.
I'm sure, like anything, it effects people differently.
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Dovely wrote:
It is important to note that you can not get hooked on any pain killers IF you are having pain because the drug gets pickedup by the pain receptors and NOT your central nervous system (which is where your addiction cycle would begin if you were to take opiate if you have no pain).
This is completely and utterly false. Mu opioid receptors are located in 2 places: the central nervous system, and the gut. The belief that "you can't get addicted to pain meds if you have pain" is a persistent myth, nothing more.
In any event, this is a ridiculous thread for TW. -
Meh, I trusted my doctors completely and took everything with no questions asked.
They gave me morphine, apparently that's addictive. And I never got addicted so they did their job right. -
Tallyho wrote:
i'm fresh into college lol and i never had met anyone with chronic pain before. i never even knew this stuff existed, and took my doctor at his word that they were safe. it wasnt till after i started having probs that i told my friend n did the research...what I can't understand that if you had concerns instead of looking it up on the net why you didn't contact your own doctor with FIRST!? Maybe still speak to him about it.
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@MK ultra... i guess so, idk. ppl raise awareness on here for cancer and all kinds of hlth probs. here's a good hlth problem: since i finished pt ive known of two ppl whose children end up near death bc their docs gave them a medication they are allergic to w/o reading their charts. ive known another who grew up in a 3rd wrld country and is illiterate end up much worse than i did, and i know someone who was told to have "exploratory surgery" for abdominal pain even though they hadnt run all the non-invasive tests.
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so yeah. maybe its ridiculous to have a thread not taking your doctor at his word, and researching on your own, but its high time someone said something about it if you ask me.
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irridescent✨ wrote:
Well, seeing as you're such an expert, what do you suggest he give you??so yeah. maybe its ridiculous to have a thread not taking your doctor at his word, and researching on your own, but its high time someone said something about it if you ask me.
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thats just it dr. p. im not an expert. the poor guy went to school for 7426318631852642 years and told me, "im giving you tramadol for pain." did i argue? not really. when i finally figured out what was going on, i told him not to give it to me anymore. he sent me to physical therapy where i got on a low-impact exercise program. if you ask me, he should have given me the option of therapy before and warned me CLEARLY about what the side effects of the pills were. thats what this thread is on.
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face. f*cking. palm.
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I can't reply in this thread anymore because I'm going to go kill myself.
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The point is he went to school for 6 years. He has given you tramadol because that is the best option for chronic pain in someone your age. He knows this cos he's got lots if experience, he's not just some clown who's read stuff off the Internet. As for side effects and such, each drug has a list of 50-100 potential side effects. Are you suggesting that he go through all of them with you?
What most normal, sensible people do when prescribed a new drug is this: they go home and take it as prescribed and read the little leaflet that comes with it. If any side effects haven't settled down in a few days they go back to their doctor.
as for all your horror stories,
millions of people see doctors everyday. An extremely tiny percentage of mistakes occur. Same as any other profession or industry. -
the us center for education says that most of adults today need help understanding basic health information because of their issues with literacy. if someone cannot read or understand the information given to them then yes, the doctor should sit down with them and read off all 100 side effects of each medication and make sure they understand.
i can read lol but i have never heard of that medication before. i didnt know how it was supposed to help me, and when i asked he said "its just a painkiller." im a broke college student tht had nvr taken anything stronger than 500mg naprosyn, so when he said "its just a pain killer" and shrugged me off, i understood that the pills were as safe as the naprosyn or any other type of thing.
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MK💉Ultra wrote:
face. f*cking. palm.
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I'm sure the doctor or pharmacist would be willing to go through the side effects for someone with literacy problems. However, it would be a waste of time & increase the cost of health care for him to do that with patients that have no literacy issues.
Did you ask the doctor if there was an alternative to taking medication before he wrote you the prescription? Did you read the medication insert that came with the medication before taking it? You have to take responsibility for your own inactions, rather than just blaming the doctor.
In any situation you have to be an advocate for your own health. If you aren't comfortable with 1 doctor, see another, get a 2nd opinion, etc.
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