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I take tramadol for back pain. About 10 years now. Take 1 as soon as I get up and give it about 30 minutes to start my day. I had herniated discs and got hooked on Vicodin in the 3 weeks I took it. When I realized it I flushed them and doc switched me to tramadol for degenerative disc disease and sciatica. It works for me as far as low level pain killers go.

Dang, if I'd have known you were gonna flush them, I'd have given you my mailing address. LOL I had my gall bladder out in '10, I believe it was. It was abscessing and the pain was exquisite. There were only two surgeons at the hospital here who specialized in that sort of surgery, and one was on vacation, so the other was handling two caseloads at once for the duration. So, since there was a week's delay for an available O.R. slot, my doctor called in for a bottle of hydrocodone 7.5 to manage the pain in the interim. I went straight to the pharmacy, and they gave me a bottle the size of a beer can. A hundred, I think, one every four hours. Well, surgery came and went, and the surgeon turned around and called in a bottle of Dilaudid for me, post-op. My wife picked it up, and there was probably a two week supply. Now I've got both pain meds on the nightstand. I was alternating between one and the other, and I'm washing them down with wine (for the vitamins, you see *snicker*). Due to the nature of my job, my doctor put me out on medical leave for another six weeks, long enough that I got approved for paid short term disability with my employer. But I had so many Class III CDS pills on me that I was as high as a kite for a solid month. LOL!