Tramadol Update

Next week will mark one year taking Tramadol...it will also mark one year since I have been to see a doctor of any kind (besides the ER when I had the flu).

This is incredible when you consider that the previous two years I went to three different specialists, had two different procedures, and visited the doctor on a monthly basis.

I am still 99% pain free.  The only rough spot I have had was at the beginning of June when I had consistent increased nerve pain in my right leg.  I began taking five pills a day instead of the four I had been taking and that has worked wonderfully.

Sometimes the pain seems like it was so long ago and then sometimes, I'll get a twinge of pain and remember the constant, throbbing pain like it was just yesterday.  When that happens I think to myself, "how did I live with that much pain?"  I guess there was no other way to do it...I just carried on day to day and tried to enjoy it as best I could.

Now, I will catch myself marveling over the fact that I don't have any pain!!! I still sometimes can't believe it.  I have lost 15 pounds this year just from being able move and exercise again.  

I have not been to a doctor in a year but I do have a yearly physical scheduled for beginning of October.  I see no reason why the doctor would want to switch medicines at this point.  

Fibromyalgia was no match for Tramadol.