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Ronnie, I am again amazed by your positive feelings in spite of your extreme pain. You continue to look for the positive in each issue you have. You are an inspiration to others in pain, including me. My pain feels small after reading your posts. I hope your doctors find a conservative treatment for your spine problems. I have a compression fracture in my C7, and when it's inflamed the pain is excruciating. I also have ongoing osteoarthritis, DDD, lumbar issues, spondylitis, etc which I'm sure you've read in my previous posts.
While I am feeling better right now, I notice that my neck and back pain and leg weakness is slowly returning. Your experiences are helping me as I suspect I will be needing additional work one of these months. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and feelings on this site. You're helping so many others in similar positions, in spite of your pain.
Gail
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I thought this extra information on Tramadol from Mayo Clinic may be helpful, "Tramadol belongs to the group of medicines called opioid analgesics. It acts in the central nervous system (CNS) to relieve pain. When tramadol is used for a long time, it may become habit-forming (causing mental or physical dependence). Physical dependence may lead to side effects when you stop taking the medicine."
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/tramadol-oral-route/description/drg-20068050@JustinMcClanahan
Thanks for the info, Justin.
Of course, Tramadol is the only pain med that works for me.
It was prescribed when I had a tooth infection.
It helped EVERYTHING!
I kept one in case i am in 'need to go to the hospital'pain.
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)
@grandmar and @JustinMcClanahan, yes. I totally agree. Tramadol is certainly my drug of choice. Unfortuunately, my doctor has decided to no longer prescribe ANY opoids, so I take 6 to 9 ES Tylenol each day while I search for another avenue of relief. They aren't as good as Tramadol, and I know they are slowly eating my liver, but at this juncture I'm ready to try most anything. Lyrica doesn't work. Take care, @cognac
Tell your Doctor to wake up, Tramadol is not an opiod
@cognac
Lyrica did not work for me either.
Good luck in your search!
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)
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I agree completely. It isn't always enough to follow the doctor's instructions though, they may tell you to take a dose that will take care of your pain and get you high. That will get you addicted. I laid this out in a post yesterday about not trying to get completely out of pain but settle for a pain level of two to three to avoid addiction to make sure there's no extra drugs running around your brain after your pain has been taken care of cuz if there are your brain will say Party Time party time and you will get high and you will get addicted. I've used these drugs for years and never got addicted now I'm on such a small dose I wouldn't care if I did get addicted I don't think it would be that hard to kick from two and three milligrams of Dilaudid a day. The pump the pump the pump. Love and blessings.