Some thoughts on Tramadol

I was given shed loads of tramadol at the beginning of my broken leg experience, and I found it really helped to stop my legs hurting at night, and with the muscle aches that sitting a lot can bring. However, I'm now trying to come off it, and I'm not thrilled with the experience.

Whilst I was using it, it did have a major side effect of bunging me up completely. I was lucky enough to have an enema kit that helped a lot with this problem, so it wasn't a big issue, but it wasn't ideal. Now I'm coming off what was quite a low dose (maybe 50 - 100mg a day), I'm finding that it's not ideal, and realising that some of the things I'd blamed on a virus that I got, are actually probably the tramadol.

The big problem I've had has been lack of ability to concentrate on anything substantial. My dreams of catching up with paperwork went out the window a while back - apart from anything else, I felt almost paranoid about the activity, which didn't help one bit. I also found that I fell asleep a lot, again not ideal.

Now that I have stopped, I have been getting diarrhoea, sweats and problems with cold, as well as migraines with visual disturbance.

I think the message is, if you can manage without, try to avoid it. A quick google reveals some folk who end up unable to stop using the stuff and even some with horrible depression because of it.