I was one of the lucky folks to be among the very first China virus patients. Down for about 4 weeks with no memory of it, but when I got up and sat in my recliner, I felt pretty good. The next morning as it turned out my perineal nerve had crashed, and so I have drop foot. At the time a surgeon saw no connection, but now if you Google it you will find it's not common, but certainly not unheard of. And so in an attempt to alleviate the pain that accompanied it I was prescribed three different opiates over the course of a few months, one of them being Tramadol and the other two being stronger. None helped at all, and so I only took two or three of each if I recall correctly, certainly not much more than that. So I'm not unfamiliar with the drug.
the difference here is that it helps tremendously with this hip pain I have as well as the meralgia peresthetica pain. For about 3 days this week I took a 50mg at 2 in the afternoon and about 2:00 in the mornings. They really did the trick, but I don't like getting hooked on things like that, mild as it is. So I skipped one at 2:00 a.m. and felt it. That made me want to take more instantly, which is how people get hooked. So I think I will just go with one a day, that being around 2:00 a.m., and see how that goes for a while. I'm a bit surprised that I was allowed three a day as necessary for pain.