Tramadol has a bad reputation, I have a friend who has been on them for years and she is absolutely fine, until she misses a dose. Please don't stop taking them if they are helping you to manage your pain. It's giving you a quality of life and people seen to be so hard on themselves because they are having to depend on medication.I remember being offered certain things after the accident , Zopiclone was one of them for short term use , I was petrified of using them , was given 5 and I still have 3 left (They're probably OOD now) just dealing with tramadol alone has been hard enough and my empathy towards those on some of these higher class drugs has never been so strong
I am on morphine and I also get prescribed oxycontin -I refuse to take the oxy they are just as bad as Diazapam, I do take the morphine- but very, rarely
Please don't beat yourself up over it.
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