Tramadol
 

My doc wants me to consider it. The benzo's are out and I never took them and when I told him he agreed it was a poor suggestion on his part. Anyway I took a look at the possible side effects and it seems like a potential horror show.

I was wondering what the experience of using this drug has been on you kind folk here. I'd really like to hear your experiences before I'll consider considering this drug. I do well on opiates usually but these designer opiates scare me due to possible side effects. So...

I use tramadol daily. I find it less effective than I'd like, though oddly you inquire on a day that a snafu that involves multiple parties (including me) leaves me without.

It helps take 10-20% of my pain and discomfort off the top. Most days I only allow for 10% credit. Today I give 20%.

I go some days without, though I will admit for the most part it is a daily medicine. I am scripted up to four times a day and my physician intially wrote the script at 100 mg, though only extended release are made that way I believe, so I take 2 50 mg. My script is for up to 4 50 mg per day, to clarify.

While I'd prefer a better tool, it helps me tremendously. I don't think I work without it.

Hey there icelander :)
 

Oh yeah, on bad days it doesn't feel like enough. Today, rainy and having nothing it is like a holy grail hidden from sight, hah.

Even so, I agree with the notion it is lower end of the spectrum.

I'd like to add, Icelander, that when I had shingles, I found hydrocodone to be nicely effective on my other nerve pain as well. I didn't bother asking about it, and I will briefly explain why.

I have diagnosed moderately severe diabetic polyneuropathy. It started out in the mild camp. Despite this, when mentioning that my pain was more severe and that research pointed toward a drug expressly indicated for said condition I was told, "you don't want that, it is the same class as hydrocodone."

So that is my short story on that. I am not sure why I am blanking on the name - tapendatol?- of the drug, it is a stronger form of tramadol, which is why I thought it would be a decent idea for me. I thought tramadol was waning in effect- it is, I think but it is obviously doing something.... because I am walking around like I have an extra decade or so on me... or I think I have been placed in a mine field. Perhaps both.