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Re: Tramadol/Ultram - a psych drug too? » Colleen D.

Posted by fairywings on June 27, 2006, at 15:03:25

In reply to Tramadol/Ultram - a psych drug too?, posted by Colleen D. on June 25, 2006, at 19:54:58

If you've had the pain for any length of time, or it interferes with your functioning, then chances are you'll have at least some depression. So in that sense yeah, it's a psych drug, but it's not given to you because the pain is all in your head.

My understanding is that Tramadol/Ultram is less likely to cause the kind of psychological addiction problems you might have with narcotics or opiates because of a high - I could be wrong about that. Maybe it can cause psychological or physical addiction because of the pain relief, or maybe it's like a lot of the psych drugs - they're really hard to get off of.

I'm going to ask my pdoc about Cymbalta for pain, but it's supposed to have a bad withdrawl syndrome like Effexor. Lyrica and Neurontin are used for pain, but I don't know about the withdrawl.

Hope the Ultram continues to help you.
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