Posted by cisco on February 11, 2002, at 2:22:59
In reply to Re: DO NOT EVEN THINK about taking Tramadol » cisco, posted by Kristi on February 10, 2002, at 22:09:01
Dear Kristi:
Alright. I'll try it again, since I'm just not getting through.
I took Effexor for 9 months. I did not renew my prescription, as I did not care to pay my P-Doc the $75.00 'Tip Money' for a Med-Check. Stopping Effexor is no problem for me. Yet there are quite a few people who say stopping Effexor Cold Turkey is not a good thing.
So, just because you have had a good experience with Tramadol, does not invalidate the fact that MANY people experience SEVERE withdrawal symptoms when discontinuing this drug.
And that is on top of the fact that this is a drug with marginal effectiveness as a painkiller. Prescribing it as an anti-depressant, instead of Buprenorphine, borders on the absurd.
That was the topic of the original thread, by the way.
Buprenorphine has real long-term potential. Thousands of people suffering from intractable depression, Chronic Pain, and Opioid Dependency, could benefit from use of this remarkable Drug.
Tramadol, on the other hand, offers low level pain relief, coupled with a high liability for addiction, severe withdrawals, and abstinence syndrome. In addition, Tramadol lowers the seizure threshold for a statistically significant percentage of the population.
That is a lot of risk for a medication that rivals Ibuprofen, or propoxyphene, for pain relief!
If you have no interest in researching Tramadol, that's fine. But I would ask you think twice before you recommend it as safe, relatively benign drug. That is one thing it is not.
That's all I will write on this subject.
Later. Much Later.
Cisco
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