Posted by ConfuzyQ on June 16, 2005, at 8:28:30
In reply to Re: (ex-Spoc here, just changed my name) » ConfuzyQ, posted by Jazzed on June 15, 2005, at 22:21:04
(Hee hee, I'm getting nervy and putting the word up in lights after reading the thread you told me about. No one there was admonishing at the very mention of the word, so that was a good sign to me.) Thanks so much for pointing the thread out, I just posted to it, even though tramadol isn't the real subject there. If you ever want to do that again don't fight it! ;-) Sadly, I have to limit what I read here severely. I bookmark the few individual threads I start -- or somehow get on without regularly skimming whole pages -- then read only those. As much as information is a good thing, I'm working with a screwy set of tools, so one way or another I end up obsessively spending entire days or weeks here once I start looking at whole boards. :(
> Wow, still wish mine would (offer therapy). He said managed care won't allow them to do the therapy. My med consults are $150, and the initial was $200, which was a 45 min. appt. Seems pricey to me, thankfully I have insurance, or we wouldn't be doing this!
Aaaah, there you go. I am entirely self-pay :( so maybe I don't hear the same limits. Yes I agree it's probably a lot about your therapeutic chemistry with a certain person. If it's there they may be the best one for you, regardless. If I end up taking to my new pdoc in that way too, and I wouldn't be surprised if I did, I will probably start up some talk sessions with him too (like, what am I doing now, sign language or charades lol! You know what I mean ;).
> > I have, um, been doing it (taking tramadol) solo.
> Okaaaaay! LOL I did the same thing b4 I started taking the 5 HTP, and it worked like a charm for me.
Ha ha, I give myself and my guilty conscience away all over the place. After posting I realized you hadn't even been ASKING whether I was doing this on my own, and probably realized I was! You only asked if any docs give me grief about it. ;-)
> > I want very much to be completely honest and think I soon will,
> Oh gosh, I went into my first appt. and told him everything that I'm currently taking and how I came to take it, and he wasn't phased in the least, but that just seems to be his way, and he is older, probably has seen it all!
My nature is to tell all too, but this time I compromised on how I delivered the info (saying I noticed other beneficial responses when taking tram for pain), courtesy of the advice of some cyber friends who said I was reducing my chances right out of the gate of ever being trusted. It would be a real tragedy if I ended up limited from any meds because of such assumptions, since I really am naturally very conservative. For years I have often had many types of potentially very addictive things around for various prescribed purposes, but I almost never take them and usually end up throwing them out because they've expired... even though OF COURSE I know I could have used them to feel good only for the moment or for too many moments. (And if I'm never tempted to do that despite some of the moments I'VE had, I never will be!)
> That's really too bad if it works so well. Hope someone out there will look at it. Wonder how many people on the boards have tried it, and if they had the same experience as you.
Maybe I should update myself on a lot of related things (including where tram stands now), here and at other boards and in other sources. But alas, I've got that obsessive/perfectionistic way of looking into things that I'm too tired of now... and it's probably irrelevant anyway, because my new pdoc will be taking me down enough meds roads that I might drain myself looking into, with tram never even being one of them. Even if I could find enough evidence to start swaying even him, I'd probably also want to have found that other docs really are starting to prescribe it this way too. (But I dread it ever getting scheduled, because if I don't find anything else that works as well and with as few side effects, I probably will always feel comfortable continuing it at the dose I use.)
I'm also afraid to post too much about it because I'm probably not up to the types of debates that can result -- I'd get too involved and give myself a headache. But I would welcome ones based on potential physiological harm that I don't know about (that is any worse than for many "approved" things! Everything has a price).
I sent a babblemail yesterday to a former regular poster who seemed to know more than anyone I've ever "met" does about tramadol, to ask my question about whether my low dose could have affected the Strattera outcome. But don't know if I'll hear back.
> I took Xanax a long time ago. Don't know how anyone could get addicted to that, it knocked me on my butt, and I was on a tiny dose. Forget that!
When it comes to those type drugs I've only used them occasionally for sleep; I can't imagine finding the way they make me feel helpful, during waking hours. Maybe in combo with something else, don't know, but not alone anyway.
CQ ;-)
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