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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.

Although Ultram is widely prescribed as a less addictive alternative to drugs like Vicodin or Oxycontin, the many thousands of people who have developed serious and entrenched addictions to Ultram are a testament to the abuse risks of the drug.
Page last modified January 27, 2008

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Posted by Anonymous User
seven years ago i hurt my back again, the trend was ever so present. i had been to the doctor more than a few times in the past years over the constant pain in my back.
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!!!

ultram

Posted by Anonymous User
Being "addicted" to ultram in my opinion is miserable....I have been taking anywhere from 15-30 a day for almost 5 years. If I do not take them one day I get very sick and just want to "die" I wish that I had never been introduced. Before ultram I took vicodin and I feel thet the ultram is actually better and a whole lot easier to get, almost to easy. Perhaps thats why I am where I am today...Please if you are easily addicted to meds...stay away from ultram..

ultram-very hard to get off of

Posted by Anonymous User
i was given ultram for restless leg syndrome after many other med failed. it worked...but at a price. i take 2 every morning before i even get out of bed. i take another 2 every night around 5 pm. if i dont take them, my legs twitch, i feellike bugs are crawliing inside my skin...like restless legs-only ten times worse. if i drink, the skin crawling is so bad i have to take double the pills. when i take my first dose in the morning, i get a euphoric feeling about 20-30 minutes after, only to feel"let down" within 2 hours. if you take more than 4 a day, you feel"ill".its like any med, you keep looking for the high that never comes aghain.
my concern is what would happen if the world was to have a natural disaster,,,what would all these addicts do for meds? doyou realize how intense the withdrawl would be????Just like all the antidepressants, everyone would have to go cold turkey,,,scarey thought. if you are on this med, ween yourself off.im trying now. one pill less every 2 weeks is what im trying. its SO hard.(by the way, im a nurse.)Good luck to all. stay away from this med...

Utram if worst than any other narcotic out there!!!

Posted by Anonymous User
Well i will share my story with yall hopefuly it will help, I had a lumbar punture done a couple a years agao so after i got off the ER they prescribed percocet 10 ml ( yes really strong) so i started taking them and withing a week a was hooked so i went to this "Doctor" and explained that i had back pain( which of course wasnt true and he didint even checked me i guess im a good liar! so he prescribed percoset 60 7.5 ml and then 2 days later i told him a was still in pain so yeah he went 60 on 10 lm i was in heaven so i thought! I went to other doctor and got more pills, my appt came to see the same doctor that gave me the original 120 pills and to my surprise i got more and more narcs.. So by this time i was already on narcs 24/7 for about 3 months never stoping taking 15 ml of Vicotin every 4 hours or so i went back to my doctor and to my surprise he was gone anyhow i got to see this other doctor she said that she didint wanted my in addictive narcs so we should try Ultram and i quote " these ones are not as addictive and you dont have to take more the 3 a day and there was the prescription for 240 pills and guess what since its not labeled as a narc i was able to get all 240 pills in a trip to my pharmacy. So i was bumbed i was like humm not addictive means no high. anyhow i researched Utram not because i was concered about getting addicted but wheather i had to switch doctor yunno to get vicodin. So i was heck ill try it and i did , and here where my real nightmare took place, i remember getting a hight with vicodin but it would usually end in a crashing feeling like when u take too much caffeine and when i tried Utram i had no crashy feeling i had all this energy not a high but an energy that felt like i could do anything so theres where a got hooked it wasnt so much about the hight cause its not intense its more about the energy i remember getting the flu and i was cleaning , cooking just all this energy and then i realized i had a problem i was taking seven-50ml pills a a time just to be able to get outta bed to do my every day stuff, it got to the point where i had 30 pills in my puese and was thinking which doctor i was going to go today cause i was always making sure i didint run out, i could go back to my doctor cause she had given me 240 so i couldnt say im dome give me more! SO i went to god knows how many doctors to get it when with vicadin if i was out i would wait till i felt like going to get more , i so bottom line what hooks you its not the high but the non stop energy u get from it, and trust me once u try it it wont get any better i was taking about 20 pills a day and just think that ultram can make you have zizures with taking 6, i have 3 kids and i remember my 12 year old saying mom why do u take this pills, why do u chage ur last name when u go see a new doctor that was it for me one day 1 year ago i was like im done i let myself run out of those darn pills and the pain was so terrible that i ended up in the ER they gave me 15 Lortabs 5ml to take home and i was like well im tired of having to think nothing but ultram so i took them 1 every 4 hours and i can say that i was pain free for most of thr day but hell when night came around gosh i was literally pulling my hair out i had never felt such desperation, i wanted to literally die and i that night i told my husband what i was going thru and he was so kind with me and helped my through it, Now im not going to lie i wonder what ""if"" i go make a quick run to the doctor to get ultram but i know darn well that i will never put myself thru that again i went thru hell and back with this med and i cant blame anyone but myself i know im an addict and now i realize that i still have the same energy ultram claimed to provide to me now if i need energy i set my music high i clean till i cant do it anymore once you are an addict anything you subtitute that addiction with will become extreme and now that extreme is my music.... I know this is long but i just wanna let yall know that its hard and only us that been there know too well that its an everyday battle i still get craving but i try to remember how ultram was taking over my entire life, i was spending $80.00 a visic to a doctor evey 3 days and yeah that adds up but take aside the money it was my mind i couldnt think of anything else but Ultram... Be careful, because i think that ultram can be more deadly that other nacs only because gives u a boost everybody is looking for in this crazy hectic world we're living in....
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