my girlfriend and i had an ultram script a few years ago that we abused the shit out of for recreational purposes, just to see if we could switch it up a little bit from ECP dope... my girlfriend decided pretty quickly that tramadol sucked and told me i could have my way with the rest of the bottle... tried sniffing a few initially but that was disappointing, there's so much powder there, just as bad as trying to sniff a vicodin, so i eventually just started eating six, eight, ten of these things at a time... there must have been one night where i ate like 20 ultram in a 12 hour period... they will hold off WD from a "real" opiate but in kind of a bland, uninteresting way sort of reminiscent of how suboxone made me feel. i never had a seizure from it (but i was smoking bud concurrently and maybe taking some xanax too, i don't really remember) but i did find that it was kind of uncomfortable to come off the tramadol, worse for me than how i'd feel after coming off a week long ECP dope binge, which surprised me given the weakness of the tramadol buzz. as well, we both also found the analgesic effect to be "wanting" to say the least. overall, i'd say that tramadol sucks, if my doctor tried to give me that crap i'd just ask for codeine instead.