Does anyone have experience using Suboxone as a way to stop a Tramadol addiction? Would you recommend it? Thanks!
Suboxone to help stop Tramadol?
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- 31 Dec 2011 by yes90125
- Updated
- 15 Feb 2012
- Topics
- suboxone, tramadol
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Tramodol has not only the addictive qualities, but can cause seizures if stopped suddenly. Do not go this route. You will need to be tapered off of tramadol to prevent the possibility of seizure. I am giving you a website to read. Please skip down to the contradictions part or read the whole thing if you like., but be sure to read the contrdictions! Good luck to you...
I agree with kittycat that its stronger but a 4 day taper will not even be close to handling your tramadol withdrawal. I am getting on suboxone on the 11th for tramadol addiction. They just put you on a way smaller amount of suboxone and only once a day then they taper you with the hopes to be fully off and withdrawal free by the 3rd week. A month total is the recovery time from whqt my dr said. I can let you know how the suboxone is once I get it :)
Have been on Subs since November for a 40 pill/day Tramadol addiction. I am on 16mgs/day which is what I had to taper up to to help stop the w/ds. Feeling better finally but looking to start to taper soon b/c I have terrible insomnia and get the nods pretty bad during the day. I could never have tapered the Tramadol on my own. This is not my first go round with Tramadol, I was clean for 3 full yrs then started back like a dumb ass!! Stay on the subs as long as u need to. I also needed to be started on an antidepressant after stopping Tramadol. Went into a deep depression b/c of my serotonin levels being out of whack. Tramadol w/d is just as bad if not worse than OC W/d. Did that too, u would think I had learned my lesson but the drugs were stronger than my willpower to stay clean.
Hey I had a question for you. I see a sub dr tomorrow and how long did you have to be off tramadol before being able to take suboxone? Also how long did it take for tramadol withdrawls to go away? I took suboxone years ago for a week for heroin withdrawls and it helped but I don't know how it is for tramadol. Any info on how the first visit goes would be great.
Truthfully, my last pills of Tramadol I took was at 7 am and my first 8mg dose of Suboxone was at 7 pm that night. I never went into any precipitated withdrawals and the suboxone worked right away. I never had any real w/d after I started the subs, I just tapered up to 16mg from 8mg a day(I take 8mg twice a day). I tapered up more for the psychological withdrawal, I really had no physical w/d. I am very comfortable now, the antidepressant helped alot and I truly couldn't feel any better today. I am very happy to be on the road to recovery and subs is the only way that I have been successful thus far. Best of luck to u my friend! Just be open and honest with your MD and u will be fine. Let me know if and when u need or want to talk and I will be here. U are not alone!!! Please let me know how your induction goes and if u have any more questions. If I may ask, how many pills were u taking a day and for how long? Good luck and take good care of yourself!

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Sorry, forgot to give you the reference. Here it is:
https://www.drugs.com/monograph/tramadol-hydrochloride.html