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I don't know about anyone else but both my wife and I feel like we get little effect from them. Such that it feels like the side effects make them not worth it. This is for all opiods for us. Now granted if you don't take them your just absolutely fucked but to us its like the pain is still there you just can like use the toilet and such. Niether of us gets why anyone can become addicted to them. Now like the ones that block nerve pain like gabapentin we fucking love as it actually seems to cause pain to go away.
People take more than they are prescribed at once “until the pain goes away” and yeah at that point they start to get high on them
My experience with pain killers is that when I've actually needed them for pain, after a bad injury, they work on the pain without any euphoric effects. I can only get high when I don't have any pain to relieve.
You know we honestly hadn't thought about that. We both tend to get some annoying side effects so the thought of taking more is just not a thought. We actually both have tried not taking them until necessary and learned a lesson there as it take so long to kick in and yeah you literally will not be able to function since they gave you stuff like that by iv and once it wears off you won't be back for like a day. Whats funny is the iv stuff seems to not have the side effects the way oral dosages do.
It’s obviously different for different people but yeah, for me it’s just the difference of “in pain and miserable” vs “tolerating pain and normal.” And this is from someone with a standing prescription for tramadol, the only opioid that actually works for me. I only have to take it a couple times a year now, thankfully. Gabapentin has never actually helped with my pain though.
is tramadol and opiod? that seems to work a bit better than things like oxy for us to but we still have had better effects from gaba. wonder if its all genetic on the response to these various things.
Originally they sold tramadol as “not an opioid” (and not addictive) but then they backtracked on that, so yeah, it is. But most people mentally classify it differently.
Every time I’ve had other opioids, they literally have no effect on me, including not reducing my pain. My lay understanding is that tramadol gets metabolized into a different kind of opioid while in your body, and I suspect something about that process allows it to work for me while others don’t.
And in general I seem to have a lot of abnormal responses to medications, including some paradoxical effects (like Ambien keeps me awake, or Claritin-D—the non-drowsy one—puts me to sleep).