Posted by ronaldo on March 10, 2007, at 12:38:23
In reply to Tramadol Rules, posted by blueberry1 on March 6, 2007, at 20:58:38
Hi Blueberry
I'm glad you have found something that works...at long last. Congratulations! You deserve your success. I hope that tramadol gives you lots of good milage.
I am still fighting to come off Zyprexa. Been down to 1.25 mg for about six weeks. Still get early awakening (4 am) but manage to doze on a bit. How did you reduce down from 1.25 mg? I'm not worried about it at the moment because I have a bad neck that I want to heal first before I reduce the 1.25 mg. Logic being that I will sleep better once my neck is better. Doing the exercises four times a day and bought a ducksfeather pillow which is an improvement. But it seems like I will never get off the Zyprexa.
ronaldo
> I'm sure mileage varies...but...tramadol rules. Except for nardil and parnate, you name it and I have been on it. A mere 25mg tramadol does more for me than any expensive exotic double, triple, or quadruple combination or augmentation even came close to doing. Since 150mg to 300mg is the usual dosage range, I am quite pleased with 25mg.
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> Whew. It's been a long hellish 3 years with no end in sight. Heck, tramadol even blows ECT in the weeds.
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> While they spend millions of dollars researching all the other crap on the market, they are missing a jewel that's been around a long time. Strang thing is, it isn't even a mood drug, but yet blows all the mood drugs away.
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> None of the expected euphoria or buzz for me. It took 3 days to kick in at 25mg 3X day, which I reduced to 25mg once a day and works pretty well.
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> Since all ssris, snris, and opioids actually made my depression worse instead of better, I do not understand how tramadol works, since it is all of those things combined. There must be some unknown or misunderstood mechanism.
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> Anyway, it's nice to see light at the end of the tunnel. I didn't even know there was an end to the tunnel. Tramadol rules, even in miniscule dose for me.
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