Tramadol (100mg) - 1st time - "Wow, this is awesome!"

[Xorkoth]

Well, that's not exactly true... we're all affected differently and some people do not enjoy tramadol very much regardless of brand. I am not one of those people. But then again, it's not the greatest for me either... just quite nice.

Good to know about brands though... I think the reason some brands of some pharmaceuticals are better than others is because of the binders and fillers. With some drugs, taking the pure chemical will not allow the chemical to be as bioavailable as if it has binders attached or other substances added to increase bioavailability.

 

[malfunkshun]

Well, that's not exactly true... we're all affected differently and some people do not enjoy tramadol very much regardless of brand.

I don't understand how it couldn't be true. Tramadol is the only opioid painkiller that is commonly prescribed that has the kind of controversy surrounding it's ability to get somebody high. Nobody says 'I can't get high on vicodin, hydrocodone sucks, fuck those oxy's, the don't work for me, fent just won't get me high'. It's just tramadol.

Now, I really have, truly, taken a lot of different 'brands' of tramadol. And some particular brands get me consistently very high with a great, all day euphoria. Some other brands consistently make me feel like crap.

Now, how could it NOT be because of a difference in tramadol brands that there is such controversy surrounding it? Occums razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the right one... that some tramadol is good and some is crap. It seems to me to be a lot less likely that there would be so much variation in people's body chemistry that tramadol 'just don't work for some people' when other drugs are consistently good across the board. Why should tramadol be different?

So, there are lots of people taking tramadol, lots of people say its good, lots of people say its shit. I have taken both the good kind and the shit kind. It's a difference in brands. It HAS to be. I've seen it and experienced it first hand.