Let me explain how Wolf and I, namely Wolf, came into possession of this nifty little thing.
Wolf was supposed to go to work today, and come the 5:30am daily wake-up time, I tried waking him up, and I kept getting mumbling and pleas of "Let me sleep for 15 more minutes!" Well, long story short, 11am rolls around, and I'd been trying to get him out of bed the entire morning, mostly because I needed to run to the store for some, uh, feminine things. Unfortunately, we're "boycotting" our nearby grocery store that I can walk to (fuckin' shitty service if you're not black) and the nearest grocery stores are something like 5 miles down the road---a little too far for me to walk, and not on a bus route (and we don't have spare money for a cab)
Anyway, I turn the lights on in the bedroom to irritate him out of bed, and I notice he's got a red rash across his face. I'm thinking, "Awww fuck, chickenpox, or measles?" It actually resembled a measles rash more than chickenpox, and his symtoms coincided with both, except for the look of the rash. Our insurance doesn't kick in til next month, and we don't exactly have dough on hand to pay a doc out of pocket, and the health department's booked solid, so he decides after we stop at the store, he'll get checked out at the hospital.
We get in there, and he checks into the ER, and in the symtoms box, he writes in "I FEEL LIKE SHIT."
So the nurse looks at that, a little bewildered, and says, "Um, sir? I need you to be a little more specific, if you can......"
We get back to the patient rooms and the doc comes in an examines him, and after a few minutes says, "I don't think you have chickenpox or measles, I think you just have an upper respiratory infection. Sometimes infections manifest themselves as things like rashes. Since you've been feeling these symtoms for such short time, I'm going to give you a prescription for Rondec for your congestion, and Ultram for the body aches. I want you to stay home for the rest of the week and rest, I'll give you a doctor's excuse to give your boss. If anything gets any worse or changes for the worse after the weekend, come back and we'll do another check."
Now, Ultram is the brand name for Tramadol, which, from what I understand is used for somewhat severe pain in relation to surgeries, nerve pain, cancers, etc. According to Wolf, who's been on numerous painkillers for his back (broke it in a skydiving accident) it's definately stronger than percocet. And the doc gives him this for body aches! I like this guy already *wink*
We decided to fill the Tramadol prescription instead of the Rondec, because the Rondec was more expensive, and we're pretty much broke.
So we get home, and he pops his dose--50 mgs, but he can take 100 mgs max at a time.
Now, I woke up this morning with a raging headache, like someone punched me at the base of my skull, just this sharp throbbing pain resonating up from the base of my skull through the rest of my head. As the morning/day progressed, this bitch of a headache got worse, and I was literally digging into my skin with my nails trying to attain some relief. Didn't work. Either way, my symtoms match Wolf's sans the rash, and since URIs are contagious, I figured he caught it from someone at work and probably passed it to me. I figured since whatever Wolf catches festers & drags on while mine clears up within a week or so, I'd skip getting checked out. I actually didn't expect him to be prescribed anything at all for body aches.
After Wolf pops his dose, I'm looking at the bottle thinking, "Nerve pain, huh? I bet if I take one of these, this headache disappears..." So I took one. About 10 minutes later, I started noticing some rather nice effects---relaxed, mellow feeling, neck muscles weren't sore anymore, headache was GONE. Wolf pretty much promptly fell asleep on the couch after it kicked in, so I went in the bedroom for a while, I think initially to lay down. I ended up staring at the closet doors for around an hour, until Wolf came in looking for me. He wanted an apple, but didn't feel he could cut one himself, and asked me. Hell, I wasn't in any shape to cut up food, I was seeing blurred trails around everything! (I think they call that a "ghosting" effect in the film industry)
Needless to say, we both feel great, Wolf doesn't ache anymore, my head doesn't hurt anymore, we're both comfortably numbed up
One thing I've noticed between Tramadol and Percocet is that the Percocet I was on last year left me dazed, groggy and lethargic. This stuff reminds me of a nice mellow stone, I can "zone out", but I can be jolted back to reality, too. Percocet was like a mental black hole for me.
Anyone else ever been on Tramadol? I'm curious as to how it effected you.
Hell, while we're at it, what kinds of painkillers are you on right now, if any?
Wolf was supposed to go to work today, and come the 5:30am daily wake-up time, I tried waking him up, and I kept getting mumbling and pleas of "Let me sleep for 15 more minutes!" Well, long story short, 11am rolls around, and I'd been trying to get him out of bed the entire morning, mostly because I needed to run to the store for some, uh, feminine things. Unfortunately, we're "boycotting" our nearby grocery store that I can walk to (fuckin' shitty service if you're not black) and the nearest grocery stores are something like 5 miles down the road---a little too far for me to walk, and not on a bus route (and we don't have spare money for a cab)
Anyway, I turn the lights on in the bedroom to irritate him out of bed, and I notice he's got a red rash across his face. I'm thinking, "Awww fuck, chickenpox, or measles?" It actually resembled a measles rash more than chickenpox, and his symtoms coincided with both, except for the look of the rash. Our insurance doesn't kick in til next month, and we don't exactly have dough on hand to pay a doc out of pocket, and the health department's booked solid, so he decides after we stop at the store, he'll get checked out at the hospital.
We get in there, and he checks into the ER, and in the symtoms box, he writes in "I FEEL LIKE SHIT."
So the nurse looks at that, a little bewildered, and says, "Um, sir? I need you to be a little more specific, if you can......"
We get back to the patient rooms and the doc comes in an examines him, and after a few minutes says, "I don't think you have chickenpox or measles, I think you just have an upper respiratory infection. Sometimes infections manifest themselves as things like rashes. Since you've been feeling these symtoms for such short time, I'm going to give you a prescription for Rondec for your congestion, and Ultram for the body aches. I want you to stay home for the rest of the week and rest, I'll give you a doctor's excuse to give your boss. If anything gets any worse or changes for the worse after the weekend, come back and we'll do another check."
Now, Ultram is the brand name for Tramadol, which, from what I understand is used for somewhat severe pain in relation to surgeries, nerve pain, cancers, etc. According to Wolf, who's been on numerous painkillers for his back (broke it in a skydiving accident) it's definately stronger than percocet. And the doc gives him this for body aches! I like this guy already *wink*
We decided to fill the Tramadol prescription instead of the Rondec, because the Rondec was more expensive, and we're pretty much broke.
So we get home, and he pops his dose--50 mgs, but he can take 100 mgs max at a time.
Now, I woke up this morning with a raging headache, like someone punched me at the base of my skull, just this sharp throbbing pain resonating up from the base of my skull through the rest of my head. As the morning/day progressed, this bitch of a headache got worse, and I was literally digging into my skin with my nails trying to attain some relief. Didn't work. Either way, my symtoms match Wolf's sans the rash, and since URIs are contagious, I figured he caught it from someone at work and probably passed it to me. I figured since whatever Wolf catches festers & drags on while mine clears up within a week or so, I'd skip getting checked out. I actually didn't expect him to be prescribed anything at all for body aches.
After Wolf pops his dose, I'm looking at the bottle thinking, "Nerve pain, huh? I bet if I take one of these, this headache disappears..." So I took one. About 10 minutes later, I started noticing some rather nice effects---relaxed, mellow feeling, neck muscles weren't sore anymore, headache was GONE. Wolf pretty much promptly fell asleep on the couch after it kicked in, so I went in the bedroom for a while, I think initially to lay down. I ended up staring at the closet doors for around an hour, until Wolf came in looking for me. He wanted an apple, but didn't feel he could cut one himself, and asked me. Hell, I wasn't in any shape to cut up food, I was seeing blurred trails around everything! (I think they call that a "ghosting" effect in the film industry)
Needless to say, we both feel great, Wolf doesn't ache anymore, my head doesn't hurt anymore, we're both comfortably numbed up
One thing I've noticed between Tramadol and Percocet is that the Percocet I was on last year left me dazed, groggy and lethargic. This stuff reminds me of a nice mellow stone, I can "zone out", but I can be jolted back to reality, too. Percocet was like a mental black hole for me.
Anyone else ever been on Tramadol? I'm curious as to how it effected you.
Hell, while we're at it, what kinds of painkillers are you on right now, if any?
