Is Tramadol About to Become a Controlled Substance. NYS and or Federal?

Question by Mary: Is tramadol about to become a controlled substance. NYS and or Federal?
And someone please discuss the benefits of this drug please like I am about to rather than harp on addiction. I have a psych degree and you can get addicted to drinking water and taking aspirin, so everyone just RELAX. Doctors are getting afraid to prescribe it and I have been misdiagnosed and left in excruciating pain that the tramadol barely touches, so they added a few other things on.

I can read all about the “addiction potential” for those in chronic pain, when the chronic pain industry will back up the fact that other people don’t understand people in chronic pain, which means we have to live with torture. When we want more medication it is because we hate being tortured, so freaking relax on the terminology called “drug seeking behavior”, …if you were in pain that felt like knives sticking in you and a dog chewing up your muscles, then you would be seeking relief from you pain whether or not a doctor decides you are actually worthy of having your pain relieved and whether or not they should just let you live with torture cause they are too busy making money piling the patients in rather than spend time to figure out what is wrong with you. In fact in my case they were just protecting their liability…and now we know with a few MRI’s and CT scans. I am sorry for those who just like drugs, but in fact if I didn’t have to be on them to feel ok or normalized and not like I am being run over by a truck every minute I am living, for the last 7 years, then I wouldn’t want them BECAUSE I HATE BEING DRUGGED, but I need them to not live in excruciating pain. Doctors are not always right and sometimes they prescribe less or the big thing we are realizing in psychology is that they prescribe less than necessary to hide the amount of pain you are in from your medical records so that if you sue them, you won’t win…they need to sign off on suing and have that bbaby all wrapped up, and can do anything they are choosing. I am dong a great big study at home here from my bed.

And heads up everyone wondering about “addiction”. There is something else called “delirium from pain”, which means that untreated pain and not having enough and adequate pain medication will actually make your life look like you are a drug addict. Pain is exhausting especially when severe and if you are showing up disheveled or can’t take care of yourself around the house, the doctors don’t want to be faulted for that, so they will actually try to reduce the minimal amount of pain medication you are on. And then comes the fun they have with those questionable anti-depressants, and don’t even get me started on what others are thinking when they read your medical record and those in your family who look at you on all these constant pills and medication, and think, “drug addiction”.

So all of you freaking out about addiction, take a step back and think…would you want to live with torture, and what is really going on with doctors who scream syndromes and fibromyalgia…did you ask the person if they had testing to rule out everything, cause in many cases perhaps the doctors say the whole thing is just not worth it, the person could sue.

Severe pain can look like drug addiction,and people acting drugged doesn’t mean they are addicted either. People wanting more pain medication, even desperately needing it with doctors limiting and throwing up their hands and saying they don’t know what is wrong and the person just has to live with the pain, is a clever game sometimes, so please watch out and have compassion.

Pain medication can give someone a quality of life that they wouldn’t have without,and believe it or not pain can kill. It causes brain damage if untreated, if can stop your mind from thinking and mistakes made, relationships lost, so many things can go wrong. I think more nomally and more clearly on the pain medication because the pain signals fire in the brain section of the brain when left uncontrolled causing scientifically other parts of the brain not to function. People need their pain medication, and believe it or not, some “addicts” need more, so hold your horses on “everyone with pain is addicted” and start to question whether we have a stigma about pain pills and addiction, and start caring about those who are suffering. And for God’s sake, listen!

Best answer:

Answer by JMITW
tramadol is actually an opiate—-docs often don’t bother to tell patients

regular use of pain meds has been shown to actually make pain worse.

I have lived through long periods of severe pain that did not respond to any pain med.

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