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Chances of seizure on Tramadol?

Siccness909

Siccness909

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What are your REAL chances of having one? If you don't have a history of seizures in the past or take any other drug with it when you dose? I take reasonable doses around 250-300mgs mainly, nothing more, maybe 350mgs rarely. It just kind of freaks me out when I read about Tramadol inducing one. I just can't get over it lol I never had one and I definitely don't wanna experience one. Thanks
 
I've never found a document on the probability of seizures as related to dose of tramadol. I believe that in clinical conditions they just make you switch to another opioid when you hit the level of pain that 400mg/day can't help, so nobody really knows the %.
The 'freaky' part is that once you may take 600mg and have nothing and another time have grand mal from, say, 300. There are a lot of people who took above 400mg at a time and had nothing. I took 600 or 700mg few times and didn't even feel 'shaky', friend took 1g and was fine, most people report being OK with doses above 400. However it's not nice to have an attack, as I've heard, so you don't want to be the unlucky one.

Of course you may take benzos (like diazepam) to lower the possibility.

BTW, it's not that it's inducing one, it's lowering the seizure threshold.
 
I don't know the actual probability either, and I don't think it's something that can be measured - way too many variables.

I have no history of seizures, and I had been taking Tramadol for months at high dosages and was fine (other than a nasty dependency).

I then had a seizure after 350mg, which was a lot less than I had taken most other days. I am just clean off Tramadol now, and suffering greatly. WDs from this are hell.

I really recommend looking into getting off the Tram. Nasty stuff.
 
Having a history of seizures, taking more than 400mg in 24 hours, or mixing with other drugs that lower your seizure threshold all raise the risk significantly. Its not unheard of for perfectly healthy people with no history of seizures to have one from a therapeutic dose, but nobody can tell you if you'll be one of those unlucky few, so just be cautious with it and not reckless because it's simply not worth it.
 
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