I don't get it. My hernia was done in my doctor's surgery room. Took awhile, but I was sent home with no pain meds. Mine was a bad ventral hernia. My upper intestines were being strangled. So, they even had to cut part of my intestines off.
Went home. That was that!
Where do you live? The doc, the hospital and pharma totally ripped you off.
I don't know who said it, but ABSOLUTELY FALSE that tramadol is harder to get off than tranqs. Two different worlds!!!!
Benzos are high on the DEA schedule, because you can have seizures going off them, because they stay in your system a lonnnng time. You can have rebound anxiety over and over for months!
Tramadol is a cinch, because it's out of your system in about 3 days. Get me? It's LOW on the DEA schedule!
What you feel after about 3 days is missing a kind of euphoria, but you are not addicted. You're just no longer high.
1) taper for 3-4 days.
2) get a saintly friend to sit with you for about 18 hours. I hired a nurse.
3) Talk your bloody head off. It's a major distraction. Talk. Talk. Talk.
4) Get him/her to rub your feet (whatever) the whole time, as you keep forcing your body to feel as if it's dropping through the mattress.
5) The drug is gone. Sure, like someone's who's quit drinking or smoking you'll remember that euphoria every so often and get an urge. That's not tramadol. That's you.
That urge passes in less than 3 minutes.
6) It's up to you, not the drug, to figure out how to feel okay, or to have the courage to cry or rage. Something is troubling you. That's life. Fixing it is what you do. That's life, too.
Where does it say, "post'?