Does tramadol work for fibromyalgia?

I've been on high Daily morning and night doses for years till I realised I was taking quite a bit, WITH additional just over the max daily dose amounts of Ibuprophen, and occasionally co-codemol, and on other rare occasions codeine, because codeine knocks me out and makes me sleep whilst Morphine has me wide awake..

Repeatitive compression and whiplashing of my Head/neck at High Speed, and Huge GForces/impacts is why my issues in those areas are so highly sensitive, painful, stiff, debilitating and a constant bain in my life.  Same with my lower back that took huge forces at odd angles against hard surfaces.  

 

I weened back off codiene, co-codemol and know don't take them, and I weened down to a very low morning and night doseage of Tramadol, because if I don't I have really back T1/C7 upwards into the base of my head TROUBLE, it affects my head and spine cronically that I cannot function at all.  My spinal cord feels like it's 'alive and it hurts really bad!'.. it also causes every nerve and fibre from my spinal cord 'Outward' to Flare uncontrollably.  I wind up on the floor rolling, longing for no touch contact, no gravity Soft cloud or Waterbed to spread out on whilst Praying for a Miracle or someone to Knock me out.

Ibuprophen helps take the edge off my headaches/migrains, calm down my temperature sometimes.  

SADLY THOUGH 'NOTHING works'...  other than wacky Backy or Morphine for the pain.  

Not everyone has the same causation, yet they can have similar or same issues with pain, stiffness, no or limited Rhom, Spinal pain, heat, stiffness etc etc....

If your going to try Tramadol 'DO NOT take a huge hit in one dose'... if you have a 100mg tablet cut it into quarters and take a quarter in the morning and the same at night for a couple of days and slowly increase by a quarter at night for another couple of days then another quarter also in the morning...  Until your body has adjusted to the medication and by the time you take 100+ in the Evening and the same in the Morning, you'l know that you can then cope with upping your dose in 50mg or 100mg each time.  

They say it's NOT a good drug to be on!  It can cause stomach bleeding in some folk, and like most drugs are heavy on the liver and organs I guess to.  So you Must Eat before you take Tramadol.  Tramadol works in and from the spine outwards from the Neck down, so it's not for head pain.  

It also does have a terrible withdrawl affect to, so ween off gradually when you wish to.  

GOOD LUCK with what ever you decide.

Hi Earthakitt has your gp tried you on morphine or pain patches. pain patches was the last thing my gp tried me on but I reacted so badly to them my husband had to ring out of hours dr I was so ill. its trial error with fibro finding out what works for you and what doesnt.  hope you find something that does work for you take care