Tramadol Lady

[murraymints]

Looks like the lady jailed in Egypt for taking in huge amount of tramadol for friend may be coming home after a pardon....lucky girl... but silly...

[ummmm]

Danny - you can't even buy Nytol sleeping aid tablets without a lecture on them being additive. And they are over the counter.

[murraymints]

Temazepam jelly capsules were withdrawn from prescription here as people were faking symptoms to get them and heroin addicts were buying them...extracted the contents to re inject intravenously...dying with embolisms... more than a few OAPs were jailed for supplying... so prescription drugs can be just as problematic

[dannyk13]

Ummmm, I can only repeat that I have not found them addictive after several years of use.

[ducksie]

It's one of those opioid drugs Dannyk, it's the one Ant Mcpartlin had the trouble with. I suppose you take it sensibly
I'm just googling as I sometimes get a prescription for it, it's called tradol or zydol here sometimes so I seen that the Ant chap was addicted to it - then if I share the link, it's from the Mirror, a paper I don't read myself https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/tramadol-warnings-prescription-drug-anthony-10642168

ummmm is that a new rule? I've not had nytol in years but remember way back you could just go in and buy it in places like Holland & Barrett - not them exactly but that kind of store

[ummmm]

Like jno says....not everyone gets addicted. Some people do though.

[murraymints]

I was refused nytol by pharmacists because of other med I was taking for sleep deprivation.. so they do check in the main I think..

[ducksie]

I remember while I was in hospital years back, a guy on the ward next to me was saving his much needed pills and selling them outside the gates of the hospital within a few days and he's be watching the meds on other patients little bed tables, he was arrested in hospital for it, I tell you, I was well alert that day looking at the ructions of it all

[dannyk13]

Obviously it affects different people in different ways.

[murraymints]

I was shocked how willing dad's gp was to prescribe morphine.... it had a catastrophic effect on him and had to be stopped immediately

[dannyk13]

Spathi, I repeat I have never been addicted to Tramadol.Maybe its because I do not exceed the prescribed dose.

[ducksie]

I guess it does, I'm on opioids at the moment and I need to get a booster of morphine once a week, the doses are such that the chemist only give me one week at a time for my safety - I can be a bit ditsy with it and then if it's known around that I have them I could have addicts beat me up or something for my pills. I've so much pain killer in me they wouldn't hurt me I guess :)

[murraymints]

I think some folks have an addictive personality ?

[murraymints]

Dad was given a box of morphine ampules to inject..I kept them locked away as he started to ask for ever increasing amounts...and it turned him aggressive and not himself..clearly addiction was growing..after consulting doc I returned them and after a difficult time his pain management was otherwise controlled, he later admitted he had craved it, not necessarily for his pain...

[dannyk13]

Spathi,I don't take one a day for a year.I take one or two as necessary for pain when co-codamol (which I usually take)isn't enough.It is more than three months since I have needed Tramadol

[ducksie]

Ah God love him Minty,you did the right thing at the time, I had a neighbour who took medicine cups of oxymorph, she was off her head with it, no sense of time of day, one night/morning around 3a.m. I seen her light on, she was making a cup of tea, about to pour toilet duck in for milk, I took it away from her without making her feel she did something ditsy, just told her it was sour, she was confused, I waited with her until her care came later in the morning and let them have a piece of my mind, had I not been with her, folk would have thought she couldn't live with her cancer anymore and taken some kind of overdose I dunno really, all what ifs

[murraymints]

Co codomol/ tramadol combo is what I used with DAD..Tramadol only if needed...