Tramadol ... anyone use it ?

vikki_louise

I was on it for a few years, with a higher dose i found it effected my bladder a bit but other than that it didnt cause any side effects at all from day 1 (it did in the end but only because it interacted with a different medication i was taking)

YorkiePud_3

I took tramadol for a few years for pain but got concerned when I was almost passing out and feeling very jittery about half an hour before my next dose.
I had stomach upsets, sickness and bad headaches too.

I told the doctor and she said tramadol was fine, wouldn't cause any of it. So I got onto t'internet and asked a few friends in other countries too if they had heard of it.

A friend in USA was aghast that I was taking it ... it is a VERY addictive pain medication and there are actually centres in the US specifically to wean people off it.

She also told me about someone she knew who had had all the same symptoms, saying gradually she was getting the weird symptoms earlier and earlier before her next dose ... well, that was enough for me.

I went through one week of abject hell going cold turkey getting off these. It was a nightmare ... the worst headaches ever, my stomach was in a real state and I was very jittery. After that I started feeling better. I still had to go to the doctor for other pain meds (I take Solpadol now, mixed with a muscle relaxant called Methocarbamol and that seems to work for me without any "extra" effects) and since then I haven't had the other symptoms.

The doctor wasn't pleased with what I had done, but I wonder how long she would have let me go on while denying it was the tramadol doing it ...

I am sure it will work fine for some people with no side effects at all, but there seems to be a lot of people for whom it just makes things a whole lot worse!

Trialia

All this talk of addiction vaguely amuses me, because I've never had the slightest hint of withdrawal through not taking it, just pain through the condition I was taking it for... *shrugs* But I'm weird, apparently, because even codeine and morphine don't have addictive effects on me...

jazabelle

Trialia wrote: »

All this talk of addiction vaguely amuses me, because I've never had the slightest hint of withdrawal through not taking it, just pain through the condition I was taking it for... *shrugs* But I'm weird, apparently, because even codeine and morphine don't have addictive effects on me...

Me neither! My doctor won't give me morphine though, even though Tramadol is nowhere near enough for me.

Trialia

I was offered oral morphine last time, but it doesn't work on me - I wound up having a partial seizure last time I was given it in A&E. I'm on gabapentin and codeine phosphate, now.

jazabelle

How do you find gabapentin? It's not one I've tried before.

And the morphine thing doesn't sound fun at all.

maxgwen

jazabelle wrote: »

Me neither! My doctor won't give me morphine though, even though Tramadol is nowhere near enough for me.

:mad:i have been on several painkillers for the last 2 yrs due to suffering both Tennis and Golfers elbow in both arms.
Dehydracodine
co-codomol
co-didromol
tramadol and plenty others i forgot the names of. now im on morphine.
they have all made me really poorly, i can only take the morphine if im not going out of the house as it makes me so tired.

I hate pain:mad:

jazabelle

maxgwen wrote: »

:mad:i have been on several painkillers for the last 2 yrs due to suffering both Tennis and Golfers elbow in both arms.
Dehydracodine
co-codomol
co-didromol
tramadol and plenty others i forgot the names of. now im on morphine.
they have all made me really poorly, i can only take the morphine if im not going out of the house as it makes me so tired.

I hate pain:mad:

Yes, been through a lot of those myself! I take co-drydramol and tramadol, which is the best I've had so far for lack of side-effects and effectiveness - but I'm still in constant pain.

Pain sucks - and there is no medication that is effective for everyone and doesn't cause horrible side-effects, so we all have to have this awful trial and error.

kompess

I regularly take tramadol with paracetamol and find it takes the edge of my pain. I suffer from Fibromyalgia and have lots of associated symptoms, chronic fatigue, PCOS, IBS, migraines and possibly Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder.
Im on a cocktail of regular drugs which include...
Tramadol/Paracetamol
Morphine - try not to take this very often
Gabapentin
Effexor (Venlafaxine)
Amitriptyline
Pizotifen
Maxalt (Rizatriptan)

Sometimes when I have bouts of where I sleep alot, I cant take night meds as Ive fallen asleep before they are due to be taken and when I wake up next morning, I feel terrible. It's probably like cold turkey, having shakes and feel very ill so it sounds like Im addicted to one of the meds Im taking.

I do get very itchy skin but dont know whether that's from side effects or another symptom of FMS.

kaya

tramadol made me trippy and did nothing for my pain, codiene is the weakest and most inneficient opiate they make, it took me about 5 years before they gave me anything that worked, now on oxycontin, fentanyl, buprenorphine and morphine when needed, relativly pain free but not fit to drive or sign any documents!