Posted by Brainbeard on February 20, 2010, at 15:41:50
In reply to Re: Tramadol Similar To Effexor?, posted by bleauberry on February 9, 2010, at 18:55:54
I think you paint the picture a little too brightly coloured, Bleaubeard. There are also lots of reports of people who not only became dependent on Tramadol, but for whom the drug changed faces to the point of becoming ineffective and even worsening or causing pain syndromes.
Tramadol tends to make me self-confident in a rather aggressive way, and to make me irritable when bothered. I've heard more people say the drug makes them edgy.
Then there are the thousands of reports of abuse of the drug on the recreational drug forums. The chance of abusing this drug is obviously much higher than with conventional antidepressants, that have hardly any recreational value. I've seen many reports of people telling about how their Tramadol abuse started with a prescription for pain. (And with 'abuse' I do mean something different than recreational use - 'recreational use gone out of hand', you could say.)
It can be a miracle AD for some, perhaps even many, but its efficacy in the long term still stands to debate, as far as I can concern, while its shadowsides in some ways seem to be worse than those of conventional AD's.
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