our
pause button is
oblong and white
push it
again
again
again
again
four years until
we’re ready
to throw
our pause buttons
into the river of
time slowly
until they are halved
and quartered
and gone
and gone
and gone
and gone
now press
play
Ready player one…
Just curious, how much of our lives do you suppose should be called tramadol?
What’s tramadol?
It used to be called ultram when it first came out.
It’s like some kinda hybrid nsaid/analgesic.
It’s synthetic and can be subbed for hydrocodone in a mofo has issues with, or is alergic to opiates.
It’s not bad if you’ve got a swollen knee, or if you’re achy from straining a muscle or something, but as a real painkiller it’s not all that good.
You kinda get some slight, opiate like side effects from it. So it’s a little different than other nsiads.
That’s my non-professional explanation of what tramadol is.
You can order it online I think.
Gamer, I feel as though I relate to your poem. I’ve spent a number of years closely watching people run on hamster wheels until their knees break loose.
If I ride past a methadone clinic at 5am, then the line is wrapped around the building and honk my horn, hands shoot up in the air as all the people I know wave and I drive past.
It’s horrible. I did over a year of physical therapy once for getting some of my vertebrae compressed. It was noooooot nice. My suggestion is that if you are in a situation where someone is offering you as a choice, chemical painkillers, you should not choose them. In most cases, whatever it is that’s hurting will only stop hurting when it’s stronger. Like you said, you can press pause on the pain, but as we know, that wears out the machine prematurely.
Stay off drugs.
Good poem.
tramadol is insidious because it’s an SSRI and a dopamine agonist that mimics what you might get from codeine. it is absolutely an opiate with an appreciable high. it’s very hard to kick because you go thru withdrawal of the SSRI and opioid component simultaneously. It’s very easy to get hooked, especially if you are a conservative type, because it’s weaker than serious painkillers. in the end, it’s the same.
now 9 weeks off. beat my record by 8.5 weeks. still haven’t thrown it all into the river, but i’m thinking about it…
rubber gloves for the soul. or oven mitts.
oven mitts will protect you from getting burned, and you can cook all manner of heated dishes, but just try playin’ the piano.
Drugs are bad. Use herbal remedies.