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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    punkdoc said:
    Tramadol is renowned for having very unpleasant side effects in some people, I have always avoided it it. However, some people tolerate it better than Codeine.
    I can’t take Tramadol … I was prescribed it once … I’ve never felt so awful … I’ll never ever ever take it again.Ā 

    Son had some amazing ā€˜dreams’ while he was heavily sedated in ICU recently … incredibly real … it took him some time to come to terms with the fact that none of those experiences had happened.Ā 



    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I can't take codeine either.Ā  It just makes me feel light headed and 'out of it'.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It didn't occur to me but my husband is more cynical. I got a letter inviting me for an appointment two weeks hence. Two weeks of worry. I kept the appointment and was told that there was nothing to worry about. I saw someone for less than five minutes. She gave me the good news. I asked her why they couldn't have phoned or sent me a letter.She agreed.
    My husband reckons that it might be something to do with statistics.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Strange, morphine and codeine don't seem to have the slightest affect on me, including reducing pain unfortunately and I haven't had any hallucinations or nightmares thankfully.

    However I agree with Dove about Tramadol, made me horribly, violently sick within an hour of leaving hospital after I did my back in so insisted on having it written across all my medical notes 'NO TRAMADOL' and I double checked while at A & E last week every time they wanted to give me pills. Goodness knows what is in it.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Tramadol is a synthetic opioid, and has similar side effects to codeine, dihydrocodeine, and morphineĀ  and diamorphine. All will cause dizzinessĀ  or nausea in those susceptible, and most people will need laxatives while taking them as they slow gut motility.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Interesting @fidgetbones. I've no objection at all to taking laxatives, it will help keep my weight down!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Aaaah @fidgetbones. If you want to know something, ask someone who knows. šŸ˜
    Of course I may be a little bit biased.
    I can take almost nothing. If it has any type of stimulant in it I'm afraid it's a no! I can't even take adrenalin in my dental anaesthesia!
    Downers I have no idea. So far I've managed to avoid them.Ā 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Tramadol also acts on non opiate receptors in the brain and is a partial agonist at opiate receptors ( sorry for the jargon ) which helps to explain that it can act in a non opiate way, and in some people actually has anti opiate effects.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve takenĀ dihydrocodeine for 23 years, Ā no after effects, Ā I eat loads of fruit and veg so everything works well, Ā I can leave them off when I’m not so bad and just take ibuprofen, Ā no effects or withdrawal symptoms.Ā 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    @plant pauper, without adrenaline you would be dead, so without wishing to be rude, that statement is a little daft.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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