Posted by HoosierDaddyTim on November 7, 2003, at 11:41:32
In reply to Re: Just a little warning... » HoosierDaddyTim, posted by Ame Sans Vie on October 31, 2003, at 8:12:38
Hi Michael,I'm glad to here your Fibro is gone for the most part.. I think you are in correct in that you say "Ultram" is an opiad.. I believe it's not really a true Opiad..It's a synthetic of some type, but it's not habit forming, etc.. and doesn't come from the Poppy flower, etc..etc.. It is a pain killer though, but so are NSAIDS for instance but they also are not opiads..
By the way, I tried Prosac and I became sick.. It made me stay dizzy.. I was on it for about 5 weeks when the doc finally said "Try something else".. I take methadone for the extreme pain in my legs and joints.. and it works to a point.. but I'll probably have my doc put me on Morphine as it worked better.. I still though would never get off my Paxil as it for sure helps with some of the pain, although just a tiny bit, and it for sure helps with my thinking as I have the Fibro Fog bad and this for sure is helped with Paxil.. as well as some energy is helped, although again, not much..
Tim
> I was taking Ultram (an opioid with SNRI properties) for depression and OCD for about five or six months, until just a week ago. I also have debilitating fibromyalgia, and although Ultram is, first and foremost, an analgesic, it ended up doing more physical harm than good. It drastically worsened my fibromyalgia pain, and I'm sure this is due either to the serotonin or norepinephrine reuptake inhibition, since other mu-opioid agonists don't exert this effect on me. Nevertheless, I quit Ultram and switched to Prozac (the only med of about 50 I've tried that was never given a fair trial) and it's most certainly helping my sleep, decreasing my appetite, ridding me of my depression, and even rid me of *all* the fibro pain. Certainly a weird thing, considering my Ultram response, but I guess I'm just saying be careful -- you never know how meds are going to affect you as an individual. It took months for the pain to build up while I was taking Ultram, so at first I didn't associate it with the drug -- just watch out for signs like this should you try an SSRI.
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> Michael
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