snowtiger151 asked:


I am taking Imitrex for my migraines,sometimes it works,and sometimes it doesn’t.What causes a migraine to cause so much pain,and hurt in the eyes,and in the ears-my migraines come with sensitivity to sight and sound,and sometimes effects my stomache.I do have Epilepsy,and I think this is causing my migraines ( I mean my seizures are causing them),but could the medicine that I am taking have any effect on the migraine medicine?I am taking Keppra,and Tegretal.I have been on medicine for 33 years.Could this be my problem?

Enzi_Raver! asked:


She has lupus seizures and seems to be very unstable when she has these. I can’t focus in school because of this. My counselor at school knows about my mom and she has brought up homeschooling before. So what do I do?

daydream_galaxy asked:


I just got perscribed this medicine, to help with the pressure in my head. I get the pressure because of seizures, and it says on the med fact sheet that you should not take it if you have seizures? why would the “neurologist” want me to take something that it says I shouldnt take b/c of seizures.

I also have been having some deppression. Does this medication help with deppression? Has anyone had good results? What side effects have you had with this medication?

I hate taking meds, Im not the type to take something without looking into it, so please be honest!! Thanks so much!

Christin Shire asked:


Ultram (tramadol hydrochloride) is a synthetic codeine type of non narcotic pain killer, and although touted as a far less addictive alternative to drugs like vicodin, oxycontin and morphine, tens of thousands of Americans have developed serious dependencies on the drug, and have found that the drug they were prescribed as a safer alternative has a syndrome of detox as severe as many of the more potent pain killers.

Symptoms of detox

Some symptoms of detox are nausea, vomiting, tremors, sweating, chills, anxiety, depression, hallucinations, leg restlessness and even seizures; and the risk of seizures increases when people make an attempt at a cold turkey detox.

Withdrawal pains will begin within a day of cessation of use, and will continue with intensity for three or four days before gradually subsiding over a period of months.

3 ways to get off Ultram

1) Cold Turkey

Some people, with enormous will and a determination to endure the pains of detox, can get through withdrawal after quitting without any attempts to first wean down the dosage. Most people cannot endure these detox pains, and since the risks of seizures increase with a dramatic cessation of use, detoxing without medical supervision is unadvised.

2 Wean yourself off

The most commonly attempted method is to gradually wean yourself off of the pills, reducing the dosage slowly over a period of month, or even years. By slowly tapering down, you minimize the intensity of the detox pains, and you also reduce the risks of seizures. Experts advise cutting down by 50 mg’s and waiting for the sensations of slight detox to subside before making another reduction in daily dose. It’s not at all uncommon to wait weeks between reductions in daily dosage.

As you get closer to your goal of complete abstinence, each 50 mg reduction represents a greater percentage of your total daily dose, and the difficulties in the tapering process intensify. If you find that detox symptoms are too severe, you may wish to reduce the doses by only 25 mgs as you get closer to abstinence.

3 Detox under supervision

You really should not attempt to detox cold turkey on your own. You are unlikely to be successful and the risks of seizures are real. If you do not wish to send months of gradual and uncomfortable detox, you may wish to accelerate the process through a brief but intense medically supervised detox.

Certain pharmaceuticals can minimize the risks of seizures inherent in a complete cessation of use, and by detoxing under medical observation; you may safely end a physical addiction in a mater of days. The long term withdrawal symptoms will endure for months, but the immediate and intense symptoms will have ended with the end of detox.

Recovery is possible

Many people also benefit from a period of drug treatment therapy, whether in or outpatient, after a successful detox off of Ultram.

Whichever method you decide on, consulting with your doctor before attempting the process may increase the safety of withdrawal, and your doctor may also prescribe certain medications to reduce withdrawal discomforts.

If you are using Ultram, but are not yet addicted, be very careful with the seductive temptations of Ultram, and spare yourself a long and uncomfortable period of addiction and then withdrawal.



SONJA

Al Gammate asked:


A drug addiction is strongly desiring to take a drug that makes you feel good. For example, snorting cocaine makes you energetic, alert, euphoric, with increased mental clarity. Once you’re addicted to a drug, abstaining from it becomes a nightmare. For example, abstaining from cocaine can cause agitation, depression, extreme fatigue, anxiety, angry outbursts, lack of motivation, vomiting, shaking, irritability, muscle pain, and disturbed sleep.

Thorndike’s Law of Effect

Simply put, what keeps you addicted is that taking the drug makes you feel good, and avoiding it makes you feel awful. This coincides with Thorndike’s Law of Effect: If a reward follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably will be repeated; if a punishment follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably won’t be repeated.

For example, feeling good is your reward for snorting cocaine; feeling awful is your punishment for avoiding cocaine. So what are you going to do? This is why it’s so difficult to abstain from an addiction.

You have a drug addiction and can’t quit. Now what? Don’t despair; there’s a way out. The trick is seeing your addiction differently - seeing it for what it really is.

Unemployable, Lonely, and Sick

Though taking your drug makes you feel good immediately, it makes you feel awful in the long run. For example, snorting cocaine will eventually cause health problems such as heart disease, heart attacks, respiratory failure, strokes, seizures, gastrointestinal problems, convulsions, nausea, blurred vision, chest pain, fever, muscle spasms, and coma. If you think that these health problems are bad, long-term cocaine snorting causes social problems such as lying, stealing, absenteeism at work, and sometimes even prostitution.

So basically, long-term cocaine use causes you unemployment due to your work absenteeism, loss of friends and family due to your lying and stealing, and sickness due to cocaine’s damaging effects on your body. Cocaine ultimately transforms you into a loser - unemployable, lonely, and sick!

Other popular recreational drugs such as crack, heroin, crystal meth, Vicodin, ecstasy, and OxyContin also ultimately transform you into a loser - unemployable, lonely, and sick!

Thorndike’s Law of Effect Revisited

Now let’s revisit Thorndike’s Law of Effect: If a reward follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably will be repeated; if a punishment follows a particular behavior, that behavior probably won’t be repeated.

Being unemployable, lonely, and sick is your punishment for taking your desired drug over time; being employed, loved, and healthy is your reward for avoiding your desired drug over time. So what are you going to do?

Classical Conditioning

Wait a minute! Reading this article won’t help you! Once done reading, you’ll go back to snorting cocaine, smoking crack, shooting heroin, popping OxyContin, or whatever it is you do.

That’s why I’m introducing a powerfully effective self-help intervention that you must do regularly. This self-help intervention is called Classical Conditioning. Simply put, Classical Conditioning consists of pairing a particular feeling with a particular event over and over again until they become automatically associated with each other.

Let’s say that you have a cocaine addiction and want to quit. So instead of feeling good after snorting cocaine, you want to feel awful. What makes you feel awful? Electric shock? Okay, we’ll use this.

So each time you snort cocaine, you give yourself a severe electric shock. You feel awful each time. Eventually, you’ll automatically associate snorting cocaine with feeling awful - without the electric shock! Thus, curing yourself of cocaine addiction.

Nevertheless, electrically shocking yourself isn’t socially acceptable and will attract unwanted attention. We need something more discreet. What’s more discreet than the hidden thoughts inside your head? Can you use your thoughts to make yourself feel awful? Let’s see.

You just snorted cocaine and want to make yourself feel awful for doing it. So you think, “By using cocaine, I’m making myself into a complete loser. I’m now becoming totally unemployable, lonely, and sick. Worthless. Useless. A hopeless piece of crap. Good for nothing.” How do you feel? Awful, right?

So if you think along these lines each time you snort cocaine, you’ll eventually learn to associate snorting cocaine with feeling awful - without using your thoughts to make yourself feel awful! Thus, curing yourself of cocaine addiction.

Points to Ponder

This article is tailored to those addicted to hard drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin, crystal meth, Vicodin, ecstasy, and OxyContin. Nevertheless, the intervention discussed here can be used, with some minor adjustments, to overcome addictions to the softer drugs.

For example, smoking cigarettes doesn’t necessarily cause unemployment or loneliness. But it does cause health problems such as emphysema, heart disease, stroke, cancer, birth defects, green teeth, and spider veins. So rather than thinking of yourself as becoming unemployable, lonely, and sick each time you smoke a cigarette, you just simply think of yourself as becoming sick.

Conclusion

In the past, drug addiction was seen as an overpowering and unmanageable disease. And the addict, using his own willpower, was seen as powerless against this disease. Therefore the addict was encouraged to join a support group that might lead him to a spiritual awakening.

Currently, drug addiction is seen as self-destructive behavior maintained by the reward of taking a drug (feeling good) and the punishment of abstaining from it (withdrawal symptoms). Given this, a scientific intervention such as Classical Conditioning can effectively cure it.

Though I’m scientifically inclined, I do believe in the power of prayer; since I’ve seen it work in my own life. So by all means, pray to be free from your addiction; then go forth and free yourself with Classical Conditioning.



ROSETTA