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Below are Tramadol reviews, ratings, comments submitted by patients and caregivers. Based on a total of 15 ratings/reviews, Tramadol has an overall score of 5.27. The effectiveness score is 6.93 and the side effect score is 6.40. The scores are on ten point scale: 10 - best, 1 - worst. This information is not vetted and should not be cosidered as clinical evidence. | | Tramadol review by 45 year old female patient | | | Rating |
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| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Pain relief (glenohumeral instability correction) |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 to 100 mg each 4 to 6 hours taken 2 x per day for the period of 2 days |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Virtually no pain. |
| Side effects: | | Mental numbness, feebleness, lethargy, depression, cognitive dysfunction. |
| Comments: | | Due to the above mentioned side effects, I stopped with the Tramadol after just two days and opted for pain and paracetamol. |
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| | Tramadol review by 50 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Pain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 mg every 6 hours or as needed taken twice daily for the period of 5 days |
| Other conditions: | | N/A |
| Other drugs taken: | | N/A | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Pain relief allowing uninterupted sleep. |
| Side effects: | | None |
| Comments: | | Previous adverse effects from hydrocodone made Tramadol the drug of choice for pain relief after a complicated tooth extraction. I was very pleased to have adequate pain relief without the "fuzzy" feeling and slight nausea previously experienced with other prescription pain relievers. |
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| | Tramadol review by 25 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | collar bone injury |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg taken once daily for the period of 1 week |
| Other conditions: | | None |
| Other drugs taken: | | None | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Moderately dulled the pain of a collar bone injury. Pain was still existent but I was so "dopey" that I didn't care. |
| Side effects: | | I was VERY tired. Felt like I was drunk almost. Could not take twice a day as prescribed because it made me so drowsy. |
| Comments: | | Take 1 tablet by mouth twice daily. |
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| | Tramadol review by 55 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Ineffective |
| Side effects: | | Extremely Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Shingles pain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 1 x 50mg capsule as needed taken once for the period of 1 day |
| Other conditions: | | None |
| Other drugs taken: | | None | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | None. though suffering terrible pain from shingles, this drug cause a severe adverse reaction and necessitated calling an ambulance. It created sever pain in another site entirely, so effectively doubled my trouble. |
| Side effects: | | Severe upper gastro-intestinal stomach cramps consistent with biliary colic. The pain is so severe that it requires constant movement, there is a tightening sensation round the diaphragm which can easily be confused with the pain of a heart attack. |
| Comments: | | Prescribed to deal with severe neuralgic pain from shingles. Stopped treatment after adverse reaction. |
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| | Tramadol review by 56 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Severe pain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 300 mg slow release taken once a day for the period of 12 weeks |
| Other conditions: | | Severe pain from herniated cervical disk |
| Other drugs taken: | | Mobic | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Some reduction of pain |
| Side effects: | | Became dependant on it as suffered severe movement disorder/restless legs coming off it, leading to depression and permant movement disorder long after other problems have settled. This is now managed with other drugs, but a neurotherapist has indicated that the Tramadol caused a permanent dopamine imbalance in my brain. |
| Comments: | | Was taking Tramadol for assistance with pain caused by the herniated disk. Was also having physiotherapy and anti-inflamatories Mobic. |
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| | Tramadol review by 37 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Marginally Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Fibromyalgia Pain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 100 mg/day taken daily for the period of 6months |
| Other conditions: | | hypothyroid, depression |
| Other drugs taken: | | Effexor XR, Armour Thyroid | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | In order to get any effects, I had to take 4-5 times the prescribed dosage. The medication is simply VERY WEAK. This drug did prove to me that managing pain on a daily basis, rather than responding to pain, significantly improved my quality of life and activity level. |
| Side effects: | | I did not experience any side effects on a normal or high dose. A VERY HIGH dose (only taken accidentally, because I forgot I had taken my usual dose earlier) on an empty stomach, will produce an unpleasant "high" feeling mentally, including spaciness and shakiness. Therefore you can't just keep taking more and more of the drug. |
| Comments: | | Bottom line, this drug just isn't very effective. It's more effective, and SIGNIFICANTLY SAFER, than the NSAIDS that docs are still prescribing for fibromylagia. But I am looking for better daily pain management. |
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| | Tramadol review by care giver of 14 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | chronic leg pain due to trauma & surgeries |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 mg taken 4/day for the period of months |
| Other conditions: | | nerve injury & very sensitive to pain |
| Other drugs taken: | | neurontin, prevacid, advil, tylenol | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Significantly improved leg pain and allowed my child to use the leg and get stonger. Kept her from returning to narcotics. She was able to continue physical therapy and resume school. This site insists I write 50 words in this block, but I have covered all the relevant information. I just wanted people to know that once you adjust to this medicine it was a big help for my child's leg pain. I hope this is enough words. |
| Side effects: | | Major initial side effects, but those improved significantly within a week. Stongly recommend increasing amount slowly and will probably need to wean off this drug. Initial side effects were headache, stomach discomfort, sensitivity to sound, etc. Again hang in there it was worthwhile for my child. |
| Comments: | | Has had many surgeries since an accident 3 years ago. |
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| | Tramadol review by 56 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | sciatic nerve pain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 mg taken every 4-6 hrs. for the period of 4 months |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | It gave moderate relief to the sciatic nerve pain I was experiencing. As the severity of the pain lessened, it could totally ease the pain. |
| Side effects: | | I experienced constipation that became worse the longer I took the pain med. |
| Comments: | | As I began having severe sciatic nerve pain, the doctor prescribed tramadol to help with the pain. I was also receiving physical therapy and the tramadol helped me to tolerate that until it began to help correct the sciatica. |
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| | Tramadol review by 28 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | No Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Interstital Cystitis |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg taken 1 tablet every 6 hrs for the period of One month |
| Other conditions: | | Constant severe bladder pain |
| Other drugs taken: | | Ambien for a sleep disorder | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | The first two days I took this drug the pain went away. Then, the effectiveness declined rapidly. I called my doctor and she increased the dosage to 100mg every 6 hours. This helped for about two days, and then it was back to being ineffective.
I think this is a rather weak way to manage daily pain associated with IC. |
| Side effects: | | A little bit of nausea when the pill actually worked. No side effects at all when the pill didn't work. |
| Comments: | | My IC cocktail started to work after about a month and there wasn't much need for pain killers anymore so I just stopped taking Tramadol.
In the future, when my IC would flare up, I requested no Tramadol and instead received Tylenol with Codiene. It worked much better. |
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| | Tramadol review by 18 year old male patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Low back pain due to car accident |
| Dosage & duration: | | 1 to 2 tablets every 4 hours taken i usually took 3 every 6 hours for the period of i have been on tramadol for about 2 year |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | did not take my pain away fully but it took the edge off things and helped me throught the day to do some activities i usually could not do without the drug. |
| Side effects: | | side effects were mild upset stomach, insomnia if taken before bed, boosted my mood,and social life. |
| Comments: | | before tramadol i used hydrocodone (vicodin) which is a narcotic pain killer ..it was was very effective with my pain but had a terrible come down ,i was very irritable and was just mad at things that with a sober mind i would not be mad at. tramadol has little come down and has a more natural "high" it boost your mood , with little euphria unlike narcotic pain killers. it feels as if someone just put the nicest , softest, warm blanket over you
tramadol makes me alot more social, it boosts my mood and makes me just want to talk to people as normaly i would not want to associate with people as much.i recomend this drug to all. it is alot better for you than narcotic pain killers |
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| | Tramadol review by 26 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Extremely Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | severe abdominal pain yet to be diagnosed |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50mg-100mg taken every 4 to 6 hours for the period of 2 weeks |
| Other conditions: | | insomnia and other GI issues |
| Other drugs taken: | | elavil for GI problems and metaprolol for mitral valve prolapse | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | The benefits were almost non-existent. I had taken this med before after a terrible car accident and therefore felt secure enough to take it again this time. However after only one day medicine stopped being effective. |
| Side effects: | | Some drowsiness at night after taken it throughout the day and some constipation. However after taking it for only two weeks I had a seizure that sent me to hospital and was told by doc there that elavil and tramadol combined can cause seizures! NO ONE told me this. Not my primary care doc, my GI doc or the pharmacist. This seems to me to be a pretty severe "side effect" for a medicine that barely works! The two meds were prescribed to me by the same physician and I understand oversights can happen. However if I had known from beginning that seizures might be a possibility I would asked for something else. Also after only two weeks I had some weird effects after stopping usage including diarrhea, cold sweats, hot flashes, restless leg syndrome and anxiety. I never experienced anything like this with any other meds. This medicine is NOT worth it! |
| Comments: | | 1 to 2 50mg tablets every 4 to 6 hours. |
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| | Tramadol review by 32 year old male patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Moderate Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | acl reconstruction |
| Dosage & duration: | | 50 to 100mg every 6 hours taken twice daily for the period of 13 months |
| Other conditions: | | moderate pain due to badly damaged knee |
| Other drugs taken: | | co codamol | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | I found tramadol quite effective before and after surgey to reconstruct my knee (acl). |
| Side effects: | | side effects however ocurred almost straight away on intial dose of 100mg.The worst of which is a constant feeling of tiredness and lack of energy.This has not subsided even after a year of taking this medaction. Other side effects i have experienced are blurred vision and on the rare occasion mild muscle spasms.I also have found this drug to be addictive with a feeling of nervousness mixed with mild depression if a dose is missed. |
| Comments: | | 100mg twice daily seems to work well for myself however if you can get away with taking co codamol i would recomend this first. co codamol worked wonders for me for the first 3 months however i soon built up a very high tolerance and was taking 60mg of codiene 4 times a day to get any effect hence the change to tramadol. |
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| | Tramadol review by 40 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Moderately Effective |
| Side effects: | | Severe Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | severe pain in right hip from suspected tear in ca |
| Dosage & duration: | | 2x50mg at night taken once at night for the period of 2 nights |
| Other conditions: | | arthritis |
| Other drugs taken: | | zapain | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | Helped releive the pain but not for long as the side effects come very quickly and made me feel much worse |
| Side effects: | | Dizziness tiredness insomnia sweats feelin on another planet ! Felt very frightened as I was shaking and was not sure of how i was feeling at the time. |
| Comments: | | I have terrible pain in my hip and my gp gave me the tablets ro help but i only took 4 2 nights and gave up as the side effect are really extreme |
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| | Tramadol review by 48 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Highly Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | Ankle sprain |
| Dosage & duration: | | 1x 50mg tablet twice per day taken as above for the period of 3 days |
| Other conditions: | | n/a |
| Other drugs taken: | | n/a | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | I was able to walk (although I should not have)and drive in total comfort. All the pain was aleviated throughout the period of time i was taking the tablets. I felt in full control of all of my senses, even though i was a little more relaxed than normal. |
| Side effects: | | There was a definate difference in bowel motions. I simply did not go during the three days of taking the tablets. I feel that if i had, had to continue the medication for any length of time then i would have been most uncomfortable. I would have had to resort to some sort of laxative treatment. |
| Comments: | | After badly twisting my ankle I took the pain killer Tramadol . Although I was advised to take one tablet , three times per day. I did actually only take two tablets during the day. I felt the results were more than enough.They worked well enough and long enough to last me for a longer period of time. |
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| | Tramadol review by 51 year old female patient | | | Rating |
| Overall rating: | | |
| Effectiveness: | | Considerably Effective |
| Side effects: | | Mild Side Effects | | |
Treatment Info |
| Condition / reason: | | lower back pain and migraine |
| Dosage & duration: | | 20mg taken 3 times per day for the period of 2years |
| Other conditions: | | none |
| Other drugs taken: | | none | | |
Reported Results |
| Benefits: | | there was no more back pain so i felt relaxed. Tramadol also cleared migraines quickly. |
| Side effects: | | it seemed to effect my eating habits there was a loss of appretite. I felt to relaxed to eat and would just want to sleep |
| Comments: | | after breakfast i would take 2 tablets then another two after lunch and another two about an hour before bed.
If i had a migraine then i would take 2 tablets 4 times a day |
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