ULTRAM Reviews (TRAMADOL HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.1 (554 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ULTRAM with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ULTRAM | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | back pain | Panic Attack, Extreme Generalized Anxiety | If you are sensitive to medication i would not reccomend this drug. I took ONE pill and 20min later i felt extremely weak and tired so I laid down then started to feel nauseas which got worse by the minute. Then my heart started racing soi guess it was a panic attack. I did not feel real, i couldnt see straight, had very loose foul stools about 5x a day. This medication totally messed with my brain it was CRAZY and the the most scariest thing i had ever experiened in my life. The symptoms continued for weeks. I literally could not eat solid food for almost 3 weeks, i lost 35lbs, had racing thoughts, insomnia, sick twisted nightmares and the list just goes on...It is now almost 5months after that experience and i am not the same person i was before taking this drug. I suffer from extreme Anxiety and occasional panic 24/7 with many many physical symptoms like chest pain, difficulty breathing, heart palpatations, etc. I am seeing a Theralist and taking Xanax for the extreme Anxiety (as needed) as a result of this. How the heck one pill of this Ultram could do this, i dont know! But it is true and it has ruined my life for right now. I did google this drug and i think it said that it affects the brain in a similar way that Anti-depressants do so I honestly believe it f@#ked my brain chemistry up. I am also sensitive to Meds so if you are, think twice, this is a powerful drug! If anyone had a similar experience to mine from this drug, PLEASE Email me | F | 24 | 1 days 1X day | 1/26/2012 | 4 | Chronic pain | Speedy, High Energy type drug. Withdrawal is terrible. Don't quit cold turkey. | Ultram is a great drug since it's not controlled. I needed something stronger so my doc put me on the Butrans patch and told me to quit the ultram cold turkey after 7 years. DON'T EVER QUIT THIS DRUG COLD TURKEY. Besides the opioid qualities, ultram is also like an antidepressant. I've been feeling like crap for a month. The 10mcg Butrans patch didn't even help me get over the ultram. So I took an ultram today along with the patch i have on. I feel great now! Pain is about a 2 and my mood is perfect. Ultram with Butrans is the way to go. | M | 31 | 7 years 50 4X day | 1/21/2012 | 3 | lower back and leg pain | None. | I am quite convinced that I have developed a tolerance to this drug. The prescribed dose does not sufficiently cover the pain anymore. My doctor tell me that I'm at the max dosage. (400mg), which I know is not necessarily true. Reading about this online has led me to feel that increasing the dosage to deal with the pain will only lead to more dependence. I am hoping to find something to add to or replace this drug. The muscle cramps associated with withdrawl are most significant problems. Though I am not off the drug, I believe I'm experiencing these symptoms because I'm not taking the full dose. | F | 41 | 2 years 50 MG 4X day | 1/12/2012 | 1 | ovarain cyst | Serve headache with vomiting dizzy lightheaded | F | 23 | 1 days 50mg | 1/9/2012 | 4 | Chronic upper back pain | Felt great. No pain. Good mood. Focused--really helped a bit of ADHD. Got much more done. Sleep great as it does relax muscles. Feel fine the next morning. | I only take a tramadol as needed. About 60 of them lasted a year. I don't really want to get hooked on anything so I'm wary of constant use. And some of the effects on here almost gave me a panic attack. I do not understand. My mother-in-law who is 85 takes 50 mg tramadol twice a day w/o incident? I haven't had any at all. I'm finding that it really does help calm me from effects of ADHD enough to focus and write as I am a writer. It helps me accomplish things much more methodically/organized than usual, and then sleep well at night. Otherwise, I start too many projects, get wound up, don't accomplish as much, and then can't sleep. I love tramadol. | F | 59 | 50 1X day | 12/30/2011 | 4 | peripheral neuropathy | Brief bouts of dizziness, forgetfulness, transient anxiety, vivid dreams, transient wonkiness, low grade headache at times | 12-21-11: Only medication that has curbed the burning, tingling, wooden numbness feeling in my legs and feet. I have been on Elavil (Amitriptyline), Neurontin( Gabapentin) and Cymbalta which did not help enough to outweigh the bad side effects. It's early days on Tramadol, but so far, it's fabulous. I do feel a bit dizzy from time to time, I am a little fuzzy headed, memory is definitely affected. I would not drive after I have taken my 25mg because I can tell it does affect me and my ability to stay focused. The pain before Tramadol was a solid 7 on a scale of 1-10, now it is a 2. I can sleep without pain. I still wake up with pain but it is muted now, not an "on fire" kind of pain that was waking me up every 2 hrs. I can stay on my feet and walk without the hot burning tingling pain, the use of the ice therapy booties is only 1x a day now instead of off and on throughout the whole day. I haven't had to take any Advil or Aleve, Capsaicin spray, freezing water foot soaks to prevent breakthrough pain. My appetite is below normal, I have noticed a low grade headache and it is more difficult to achieve an orgasm, but not impossible. I will continue to update. | F | 47 | 3 days 25mg 3X day | 12/21/2011 | 2 | ovarian cyst pain | i had absolutely no side effects. it didn't relieve my pain, it felt like taking tylenol or ibuprofen. | F | 20 | 8 days 50 mg | 12/17/2011 | 1 | interstitial cystitis pain | HORRIBLE SIDE EFFECTS! Very weird, severely anxious feeling, very bad headache, muscle pain in thighs that made me even more anxious because why in the world would I be feeling that? Also perceptual distortions of body like my legs were short; I am telling you, I will never touch this drug again as long as I live. Oh, and also queasiness! | F | 55 | 3 days 25 mg 1X day | 11/25/2011 | 1 | Pains with gallbladder, cramps | Your body will go through withdrawels no matter how long you have taken it. It even says it on the warning, that you must be weened off it. I stopped use Cold Turkey and wasn't addicted, just didn't need it anymore as the organ causing my pain wasn't there anymore, and I had no more pains. Restless Leg Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression, ect. ect. ect. | I was first perscribed this medicine for aweful menstral cramps, then was told to take it for the pains I was having in my stomach with my gallbladder. Once I had my gallbladder out, I didn't need to take this medicine anymore as I was having no more pains. It says that coming off this medicine no matter how long, you must ween off of it, I didn't. I stopped taking as soon as I got over the pain from my surgery. At day 3, I had the Restless Leg Syndrome. The only thing that would help, was getting in the bathtub and falling asleep in the hot water. I took 3 hot baths that night, and looked like the girl from the exorcist, back arched and writhing in agony. I went from hot to cold in mere seconds. Depression kicked in the next day. Only a slight depression, but it did end up going away the next day. Now I am having side effects from taking Prilosec OTC and it depleating my vitamen B12, so I have tingling/numbness in hands and feet (only slight, but enough to be uncomfortable), and anxiety. I will discontinue use of that too. Be careful about this. I will never use Prilosec or Ultram ever again! I thought it was a wonder drug too. WRONG! | F | 27 | 4 months 200mg 4X day | 11/11/2011 | 1 | back pain. | Ended up in the hospital from this drug. Severe vomiting, shaking, mental confusion. | I took tramadol for chronic pain, within 30 minutes of taking the dose I felt dizzy, anxious, lightheaded and had to sit down. I started to feel like I was going to vomit within 45 min. of taking it. I started vomiting and felt deathly ill within 1 hr of taking the tramadol. I vomited for 18 hrs straight and started vomiting blood ! I was ice-cold and my limbs started shaking uncontrollably . I became mentally confused . My family took me to the ER . I could not even stand. I was given IV for dehydration, an anti nausea medication in my IV and a lidocaine "drink" to help with the raw burning in my throat from all the vomiting. It took several hrs before I started to feel better. Everyone is different and has different reactions but please be VERY careful with this drug! | F | 57 | 1 days low dose 1X day | 10/14/2011 | 1 | fibromyalgia pain | No pain relief. I might as well not even take this drug. I know it works for some people, but it just doesn't touch my pain. | F | 44 | 100 mg 2X day | 10/10/2011 | 1 | Neck Pain | Dizziness, confusion, blurred vision, headaches, flu like symptoms and anxiety | i was not aware that this drug also acts like an SSRI. Wish I would have known as I have extreme reactions to them. I have taken this for 3 days at only a 1/3 of the dosage prescribed. I feel fine for a few hours, but then I start feeling the anxiety and weird headaches, etc... I'm now stopping. | F | 31 | 3 days 100 4X day | 9/27/2011 | 1 | Hip Pain | Within 5 minutes became sick them by 20 min had a rash on neck and chest felt horrible. Became unable to urinate. No pain is worth the pain caused by Tramadol. | F | 55 | 1 times 50mg 1X day | 9/20/2011 | 1 | Neck, Shoulder, Arm pain | I was taking percocet for severe pain and Pain Dr. decided to put me on Ultram...I should of beat the hell out of this Dr. I am in severe pain and he gives me this crap. I need as most people with chronic pain an opiod type medication, period. I don't know why people practically apologize for taking narcotic pain medication when they have a legit reason to do so. Nobody has to suffer in pain and you take WHATEVER you need to so you don't suffer. Do what ever you need to so you can take what helps. Don't let people tell you otherwise they don't have the slightest clue on how you feel and neither do these Dr's. I couldn't take it anymore so I drove 300miles and went to a pill mill and got a 6 month supply of what helps me. That's right I DO NOT HAVE TO SUFFER and neither do you..do what you have to. | M | 47 | 3 weeks 400 2X day | 9/13/2011 | 3 | Pain from broken tailbone | Nausea, drowsiness, lack of appetite. | I can't take more than 50 MG at a time if I want to be able to function! Tramadol isn't incredibly effective in treating severe pain, but it propbably won't leave you feeling as "doped up" as Vicodin does if you take it in scattered doses. | F | 21 | 1 months 50 MG 4X day | 9/4/2011 | 1 | Pain associated with severe UTI | Nausea, Severe Headache | I was given this medication for the pain associated with an acute urinary tract infection. The nausea/vomiting and severe headache that followed were not worth any pain relief it may have given me. I went from being at a 3-4 on the pain scale from the UTI to a 10+ from the headache/nausea associated with this medication. I will never take tUltram/Tramadol again. | F | 43 | 1 days 50 1X day | 8/21/2011 | 4 | Chronic Pain Syndrome | Insomnia | Dizzy ONLY the very first time taking it. Not one single side effect since that day, except insomnia if taken after 3 pm. It's weird...I get sleepy at night but can't "fall" past that point from sleepy to asleep...just can't get over that edge. Hard to explain. No constipation, sweating, nothing. But it takes one HUGE dose to work at all. This is a very weird medicine that does stop working after a while (my father had to quit taking it after one year because it just quit working). It ONLY works on my hip pain (bursitis) and ONLY if I take the full day's dose all at once. Does not touch my neck and spine pain. Does not work on headaches. ONLY works on hips. I have tried taking 200 - 250 mgs, 300 mgs, nothing less than 400 mgs works, and that has been my dosage since the first day I took it. I eat in the morning to avoid upset stomach with it, then I take 8 pills - 50 mgs each - and I am great the rest of the day, when normally I am experiencing severe hip pain within 30 minutes of sitting upright. | F | 41 | 1 years 400 mg day 1X day | 8/8/2011 | 1 | abdominal and chest pain | Ultram did a barely adequate job of treating my pain. | I hate this drug. I was habituated to oxycodone after years of taking it for pain relief, and I quit months ago. That was unpleasant, but getting off this garbage--after only 10 days, not even every day, using much less than prescribed--is just an insult. At least oxy works. Not that I recommend any of these drugs for anything other than very short-term use. And even then, you need to taper your dose to wean off. And if you've got ANY propensity for addiction, DON'T DO IT!!! | F | 43 | 10 days 50-100 mg 1X day | 7/19/2011 | 5 | osteoarthritis/L4L5 displacement | constipation, occasional headache | Have been taking this drug for over 2 years and works fairly well for pain but gives me the energy I need to get through an active day. I try to take it no more than 2 days in a row and off for 1 day.... helps with constipation. If I don't take for 1 and 1/2 days, I do get sneezing and slight runny nose but goes away with next dose. I will continue taking Ultram. | F | 61 | 2 years 50 mg 2X day | 7/2/2011 | 1 | Ruptured Disc in neck | Every time I took this drug it reacted differently. Sometimes I couldn't stay awake, sometimes I couldn't sleep. It always gave me that "about to throw up" feeling. Gave me one of the worst headaches I ever had. | Didn't help my pain at all. | F | 23 | 2 days 50mg 1X AN | 6/29/2011 |