What is Tramadol?
Tramadol is an opioid analgesic used for the relief of moderate to moderately-severe pain. Extended release formulations are indicated for patients requiring around-the-clock management of moderate to moderately-severe pain for an extended period of time.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Back pain | 11 |
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3 | |||
| Pain | 7 |
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4 | ||
| Fibromyalgia | 6 |
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2 | |||
| Other | 4 |
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1 | ||||
| Migraine Headaches | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Pain relief | 2 |
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1 |
See all 43 patients currently taking Tramadol
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Tramadol. See all 19 dosages ►
| 100 mg all the time (24/7) | 100mg as needed | 200 mg all the time (24/7) | 2 50mg as needed | 50 mg as needed | 50mg as needed | mg as needed | 50 mg every other week | 4 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 50 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mg/24 hours daily | 200 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 4 x 100 mg/24 hours daily | ||
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1
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1
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2
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1
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10
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1
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1
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1
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1
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7
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5
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1
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1
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3
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1
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3
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2
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Side effects too severe
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5 | 45% |
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Did not seem to work
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2 | 18% |
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Other
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2 | 18% |
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Course of treatment ended
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2 | 18% |
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Personal research
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1 | 9% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 9% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- fragiletruth
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 2
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Low
- 24 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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- fragiletruth
- 50 mg daily
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain, all over (generalized)
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips Withdrawing is the PITS - taper off VERY slowly, at a rate of 25mg per week, if you wish to go off this medication. See full evaluation
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- brokeninpieces
- Sex: F
- Depression: 2
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 3
- Anxiety: 3
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 3
- External Stress: Severe
- 23 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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- brokeninpieces
- 50 mg daily
- since Jun 14, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Pain
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Side Effects
Moderate
- See full evaluation
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- rottenassembly
- Sex: M
- Depression: 2
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 1
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 41 M
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
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- rottenassembly
- 50mg as needed
- since Nov 24, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips i take it very sporadically, so i haven't built up much tolerance. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 21, 2009.