Anybody taken Tramadol?!
Question: I usually take Panadiene Forte for my pain (fibromyalgia) and my doctor gave me Tramadol to try. On Sunday I took 2x50mg tabs at 10am and another 2 at 2pm. At 3.30pm I started to feel funny. My head felt heavy and my brain was foggy. I havent taken any since. My questions are:- Is Tramadol any good? Does the fuzzy feeling go away after taking it awhile?
Answers: I usually take Panadiene Forte for my pain (fibromyalgia) and my doctor gave me Tramadol to try. On Sunday I took 2x50mg tabs at 10am and another 2 at 2pm. At 3.30pm I started to feel funny. My head felt heavy and my brain was foggy. I havent taken any since. My questions are:- Is Tramadol any good? Does the fuzzy feeling go away after taking it awhile?
I have been prescribed Tramadol and have had great success with it. It has been the most effective non-narcotic pain remedy I have tried. I have been taking Tramadol for sometime now and do not recall having ever had the sensations you describe but everyone is different. My initial dosage was 1-50mg. tab x 4-6 hrs. Your dose of 2tabs x 4 hours (maximum 8tabs per day per PDR) is a significant dose. It is always best to consult your doctor and always use caution with any pharmaceutical especially if you experience undesirable side effects.
Patient to patient and having to deal with severe pain issues, Tramadol would be my first choice as a non-narcotic pain reliever.
I take Tramadol for back pain. It works well for me. You took a fairly large dose to start out with, then repeated it only 4 hours later. What are your instructions from the doctor? Can you just take 1 pill to begin with, until you know how you react?
I was prescribed Tramadol for fibromyalgia and found it to be nothing more than "a glorified aspirin." It was not useful in easing any of my fibro pain, although I did not experience those side-effects.
My physician, however, preferred what was written in the pharamceutical literature & marketing brochures & he continued to try to encourage me to use this prescription.
I think the medical community is very late "in coming to the party" about fibromyalgia; that is, most doctors think that sufferers are exaggerating, depressed females (little value there!) who fail to define the pain, so fibromyalgia must not exist.
With all the abuse of opoid analgesics & the scrutiny of Big Brother, DEA, most doctors prescribe according to which pharmaceutical company will send them & their wives & girlfriends to the opera or south Florida for "a conference" rather than listening to the patient.
Discontinue the Tramadol; go back to the Panadiene Forte, which apparently worked for you; and, suggest your doctor provide what doesn't have further disabling effects for you, the patient.
For starters, the dosing interval is 6 hours for 2 tablets. Larger doses cause more side effects. Starting with 1 tablet each 4-6 hours increasing to 2 each 6 hours after you have begun to accomodate to it will lower side effects. Many side effects fade away over a couple of weeks. Tramadol might work very well for one person and not at all for another. The only way to tell is to take it for a month or two unless it just doesn't help the pain.