Dangers of Tramadol

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JustKeepWalking82
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Dangers of Tramadol

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I was on Tramadol for RLS for a little over four months. Although I haven't heard anything about augmentation with Tramadol, I do know for certain that it greatly lowers your seizure threshold which makes you much more likely to have seizures. This happened to me with it. I was in a parking lot at the mall with my Mom in the backseat (the car was parked and off) and all of a sudden I just start seizing. I was rushed to the hospital after having a massive grand mal seizure and being dead for over 4 minutes. I am not trying to scare you or anything, but I would ask about the major risks involved with a new medication before starting. Nobody told me about the seizure risk until after I had one.
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Re: Dangers of Tramadol

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I became aware of the seizure risk when I read the side effects in the Tramadol packaging. Certain other medications can increase this risk, one of which is the combination of citalopram and tramadol. I spoke to my GP about this and he considered my doses of each to be acceptable.

However, there came a time when I started to get random twitches, in particular head twitching. Some days none at all, some days enough to be concerned, although even one is too many.
My GP reduced my Tramadol by half and within a few days these twitches stopped and haven't occurred since.

JustKeepWalking82 - I'm really sorry this grand mal seizure happened to you. Has your medication been reviewed and changed?
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Re: Dangers of Tramadol

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justkeepwalking - that's terrible. How frightening for you and your mother, never mind dangerous and everything else. What's going to happen now? You will have to replace the Tramadol with something, I assume.

Thank you for posting, it's a good warning for other people.
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Re: Dangers of Tramadol

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A few years ago one of our regular members - Neco - had seizures from tramadol. Very important not to cross that 300 mg threshold OR if you are taking other meds with it that also lower your threshold, keep it even lower. And if you know you have seizures, do NOT take it! Other issues, too - check out this link for more info:
http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/PUArti ... erious.htm
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When I searched, I found that both Brandy and Neco has seizures - here are links to their experiences.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3852&hilit=tramadol+seizure

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5127&hilit=tramadol+seizure
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Re: Dangers of Tramadol

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That sounds awful! I'm so sorry that happened to youi!

For me, tramadol gave me really bad heart palpitations. I can take 1 a week that's about it.

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Re: Dangers of Tramadol

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The links regarding tramadol-seizure makes for scary reading.
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