Dalanne's tramadol not working

February 11, 2009

Dalanne,

I've taken tramadol intermittently the past 5 years. It sounds like it isn't

working for you. When it hasn't worked for me, it's been because my RA is so

" flared-up " that tramadol just doesn't help. Does your doctor have you on any

combination therapy?

That is, disease-modifying drugs besides the Orencia?

My treatment has always been the best when several RA drugs are used in

combination. Right now I take Humira, MTX, Plaquenil & Sulfasalazine. It

really takes all 4 to knock out the symptoms. Is it possible that the Orencia

alone isn't doing the job?

Just a thought.......

Joy

" Hi, all. My IV infusion this month makes 6 months that I have been on

Orencia. It seems like every month it works less and less. My Rheumy

asked me to try to stop taking my Tramadol all the time. He thought it

might be interfering somehow. Oh, how I want to smack him upside the

head! One day without the tramadol and I felt like a fully loaded

cement truck had run over me and backed up for another try! I went back

on the Tramadol, waited a week, and tried again by not taking it one

time out of the three (it was prescribed as 2 tablets 3 times per day).

That put me on the couch for the day. I continued like that for one

week and did not improve which told me that the pain med probably

wasn't interfering.

Now I have a new problem....I started back with the tramadol 3 times a

day as prescribed because my hands including wrists and my feet/toes

hurt so bad that I can't successfully do my housework. The pain med

isn't helping anymore. If Tramadol has a brain it's thought, " Hmmm, she

didn't think I was helping so now I won't help at all! " . I've had to

start taking my Aleve and Motrin again and they aren't helping much

either.

Has anyone had their medications drop out from under them like this? I

try to remind myself that I can't possibly be in as much pain as some

of you folks but I'm so exhausted and down that even that little mantra

isn't helping now. I'm just havin' me a little pity party tonight. "

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