Posted by bleauberry on October 6, 2011, at 5:15:56
In reply to Tramadol, Oleptro for depression/bp ETC., posted by uncouth on October 3, 2011, at 14:07:32
You are correct, tramadol comes out on top in patient reviews, right alongside nardil and parnate. Pretty much all the other so called antidepressants scored rather low compared to those 3.
The interesting thing about tramadol as an antidepressant is that most of those patients with glowing reports had started it for pain, not depression. They had already been battling depression for years and had been on many meds without great success. Tramadol was an unexpected pleasant surprise to them, in that its side effect was to be a great antidepressant.
That said, my biochemistry did not like it at all. It felt to me like it was probably the reuptake inhibition mechanism that did that. Too much serotonin for me. That always makes me worse. It's a complicated med though, so no way to know for sure.
An important point....I was on the generic from a foreign country. I have also heard from others that their generics were not like brand either. So I can't honestly say I've tried tramadol, because I only tried the generic. While literature tries to convince us they are equivalent, they are not. Could write a whole book on that issue. But just wanted to point out that if you try it, you have to include at least 2 or 3 days worth of the brand version in that trial to know for sure. A generic alone is not a conclusive trial.
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