User Reviews for Tramadol

I take 200mg of tramadol everyday. I have rls and I take this along with Requip for leg pain, it has worked great!! I have been taking these 2 drugs for over 3 years and could not rest at all without them.

I carry this medication every where I go. I have a bad back and it's the only thing that puts the back pain at ease. It does make me a little happy and my mood lifts when I take it. I only have to take one and then be still for a couple of days and then I'm back on my feet and everything is fine. I will never have back surgery so this is a good altenative. Feel good.

I take Tramadol occasionally for bad headaches/migranes and it is extremely effective. I have had intolerances to oxycodine/perkacet but none with this.

I received this medicine after having a scar revised to hep ease the pain. I took it once in the afternoon and once before bed (75 mg each time) and spent the night vomiting and sweating and shaking on my bathroom floor. I have been able to take other pain meds easily and with no side effects (ie oxycodone, codine), but this was a killer.

I would recommend this drug for short term use only. Over time the pain relief is lessened and tolerance increases. I am currently tapering off of this medication slowly to avoid the horrible WITHDRAWAL symptoms I experience when stopping abruptly. Many doctors seem to think Tramadol is a less addictive alternative to opiates. It is not.

I have been using tramadol since suffering a spinal cord injury (T-10) in 2000. My doc at the time casually prescribed it to me, assuring me that it was non-narcotic and not addictive. I have been reading these posts 4 years before finally telling my story. Tramadol is the Nightmare of Nightmares...I am addicted physically and I am addicted emotionally and mentally to this drug. The problem snuck up on me quite insidiously, for the first couple of years I was innocently using what I thought was nothing more than a great new medicine. By the time I even began to smell a rat, I was unknowingly already well-entrenched in the prison of Ultram.Read More Read Less

Worked great for IBS pain, have been on it for about 2 months and it works better then lortab, percocet. ect In my opinion.

my pain is servere......

without the tramdol there are days I hurt so bad I hate to move out of bed!!!!

I STARTED TAKING TRAMADOL IN JAN/09 FOR SEVERAL DISC HERNIATIONS AND A FRACTURED VERTEBRAE AND 3 PINCH NERVES IN MY NECK AND AFTER 1 WEEK I STOPPED.IT DOESN'T HWLP AT ALL WITH SEVERE PAIN AT ALL...NOT EVEN TO HELP EASE IT

this med was awful a real joke

just really being sick at my stomach cant really tell if it works or not

Tramadol was prescribed for me after a shoulder injury. The interesting part is that the medication surprisingly helped me so much with a complete different condition. I also suffer from chronic depression and panic attacks for the last six years. I am taking cymbalta and when needed, Ativan. Although these meds help, I never felt quite 'normal', as I used to. When I started taking Tramadol, I instantly noticed a tremendous relief from anxiety. I felt energetic and motivated. It was as if I was born again. I had forgotten what it was like to make it through a day without panic attacks. I could think clearly, focus, and never felt sedated. When I talked to my doctor about this, he did not believe me and could not renew a prescription. I took only 50 mg a day. I feel somewhat betrayed, as I finally discovered something that literally gave me my life back, but then was told "that is really is not possible". I am wondering if anyone else had that experience? Surely, I cannot be the only one?Read More Read Less

I was on this for a shot nerve in my back and because i also get miagraines i took two 5omg tablets of this last night to treat a very bad miagraine on top of not helping after i fell asleep i woke up choking and gagging i still felt like my throat was closed this mornign and i still had a headache untill i took 100mg of motrin its sad that work better

This med help's for the pain and i like the way it makes me feel when i have it but not when i don't the withdraws are horrible

i was in a horrible car accident in 2006 i had surgery and they prescribed me ultram. well i never was able to get off of it i still take it to this day i am trying to wean off but the withdrawl symptoms are so bad its almost impossible def. alot worse than vicodin or any other narcotic. it does work for pain and also it works like an anti-depressant for me maybe they should look into using it as an antidepressant also

I was just in the ER for a seizure and had a migrane, they shot me up w/ some of this and my magrine was less painful within a few minuites and was totally gone within the hour, I definatly want to get my doctor to give me some of these to put of for when i get my migranes....