Ultram Addiction
Ultram is very addictive. Are you addicted to Ultram?
Ultram
With the rise of prescription pain killer abuse and addiction, doctors have increasingly turned to medications with less abuse potential.
One medication that doctors often consider is Ultram (tramadol hydrochloride) and the drug is prescribed with frequency as a lower abuse risk alternative, yet still a drug offering effective pain management.
Yet the synthetic codeine in Ultram can lead to abuse and dependency, and many thousands have people have found that the medication they turned to for assistance has created a problem with addiction far greater than the pain it was initially prescribed to manage.
The Risks of Ultram Addiction
Although Ultram does not induce as potent a high as drugs such as vicodin or oxycontin, the drug does create pleasant sensations of wellbeing, and does have a potential for use above and beyond what is necessary for pain management.
Unfortunately, although the high is not as great as for similar prescription medications the addiction can be as severe and entrenching, and the ultimate period of detox and long withdrawal as difficult.
Detox symptoms
With addiction comes an inevitable need for detox, and detox off of ultram can be as long and painful as for any opiate type narcotic. Some of the symptoms characterizing an Ultram detox are nausea, vomiting, leg restlessness, anxiety, depression, pain and a real risk of seizures.
The risks of seizures increases if addicts attempt to detox cold turkey without medical observation and management, and using addicts are not advised to attempt an unsupervised withdrawal off of Ultram.
Detox symptoms peak within a day of sensation of use, endure for 3 or 4 days, and eventually subside in intensity over a month or more.
Treatment
Although doctors may minimize the risks of addiction, the thousands suffering a dependency to the medication tell a very different story, and an addiction to Ultram may well require professional treatment assistance to break. If the drug was abused (used to get high) the root causes of the abuse need to be unearthed and examined to avoid a repetition of abuse and addiction in the future.
The risks of Ultram addiction are very real, and with addiction comes a need for difficult detox. To ensure no repetition of abuse and addiction, detox is always best followed with appropriate drug treatment therapy.
ultram, the trojen hourse
on the way there i was thinking about the medication he had perscribed the last time i was there,it was ultram.
i was hoping that he would give me one hundred of these pills so i could feel as pain free and as uphoric as i did when he last gave them to me.
he gave me a years prescription for 90 tabs per mounth........the bastard.
now im so toxic that i stink ....my intake of ultram had reached 16 per day but now in back to 5 per day and trying to get off of them complety.
im reducing by 1 pill per two weeks and it seems to be working but look out, theres some bad pills out there, they make you very sick, your mussels twitch and your very disoriented, you have a strange taste in your mouth, if your immobile its worse.
you have to keep moving untill the strange taste in your mouth goese away then you need to get to your doctor and tell them about your experiance right away.
i dont know what your doctor will say but the experince will surely be one you can explain.
these enternet pills are not reliable, be carfull!!!