Tramadol

[fruitsalad]

Was prescribed these painkillers for tonsillitis what awful tablets they are make me feel worse than I did back to paracetol and ibuprofen me thinks

[vodkancoke]

I've been on them since February, they are the only things that work for me.

[bednobs]

there is a significant minority of people who don't get on with tramadol. Mind you, you could say the same about codiene for example

[fruitsalad]

Vod they didn't seem to help with the pain just made me feel a bit weird cant really explain it

[hideaway]

Latest advice from the medical folk is to beware of taking too much paracetamol-
too many doses of it can be detrimental to your health.

[vodkancoke]

Poor you. I know a lot of people who feel sick with them and they make them feel light headed. I hope you feel better soon x

[fruitsalad]

Now I'm ok with codeine bednobs that would have been a better choice

[fruitsalad]

Thank you x

[lcg]

everybody's different, fruitsalad. i take 4 different painkillers and feel high as a kite most of the time - but i cannot stand the pain my arthritis causes. when i used bupenorphine patches, they gave me chemical burns that left permanent scarring on my skin that is still there 4 years later. they also did the same to my mum, which is a bit weird, but if you need something stronger than paracetamol or ibuprofen go back to your doctor and try something different.

[furrypusscat]

I take one at night for arthritis pain. My GP suggested taking 2 but when I get up to go to bathroom during night, I'm all over the place. Daren't take 2.

[pdust]

i hate tramadol.... they just about knock me out when i take them and if i do manage to stay awake i feel really weird ... i cant take codeine either

[Traci66]

I cannot take tramadol, I get what looks like heavy bruising all over me when I have taken them in the past.

[SMP]

My husband has taken tramadol tabs 1x100mg 4 times a day and paracetamol 2x500mg 4 times a day everyday for the last 11 years. He has yearly liver test that are always ok.

[237SJ]

I can`t understand why anyone would need to go to such exremes that they need Tramadol. Antibiotics and ibuprofen (for pain relief and more importantly for anti-inflammatory properties) should be enough for a medical situation that will probably resolve itself on it`s own very soon.

[jack daniels]

I had major surgery in 2003 and was put on tramadol - never again, I started having hallucinations that the patient in the next bed to me was trying to kill me and was standing over me with a huge knife - it seemed so real I couldn't sleep in fear of her killing me! I told the doctors the next day & was taken off them immediately - thank god.........very scary just thinking of it.

Anna x

[islasmum]

Interesting you say that Jack... I was in hospital a few years ago with a burst appendix, and when I came round I was put on a morphine drip to self medicate - a push of the button when you needed it - and I seriously thought that I was going mad - I couldn't sleep at all, and at nights I kept thinking I was on the Star Ship Enterprise, and the elderly gentleman in the next door bed was trying to get his cat in with a saucer of milk! It sounds funny now, but it was scarey at the time. Afterwards I injured my back and have been on tramadol ever since - they are the only things that take the edge off the pain, and I seem fairly ok with taking them now - I can't take iboprufen, which used to be my painkiller of choice, but I've had liver problems in the past so can't take them and coedine makes me sick.

[daffy654]

I have been taking Tramadol for years, I find i'm fine as long as I don't take them on an empty stomach.

[Kiki-frog]

I was prescribed Tramadol as a painkiller, but never again. Poor Mr Frog still remembers how I twice attacked him in my sleep. It is interesting how one thing can work perfectly for Person A, but be really bad for Person B.

[Kiki-frog]

Actually, reading your post again, fruitsalad, that seems a pretty heavy-duty drug to be given for tonsillitis. I hope they found something that suited you better in the end.

[maggiebee]

Seems a bit OTT for tonsillitis. I took a combination of tramadol and paracetamol after I had my hips replaced - wouldn't think tonsillitis is in the same league.