"tramadol is like a cruel joke.  something the doctors grudgingly give you while they moan and groan over the people in the street who don&#039;t bother to ask a doctor for relief.  after two years of constant pain i think i&#039;m developing a syndrome long term pain sufferers are familiar with but doctors deny exist.  they won&#039;t even name it because then they could be held responsible for the neglect and abuse involved in not treating pain realistically.  at the present i can&#039;t come up with a label that doesn&#039;t involve profanity.  meanwhile i have to pretend the pain isn&#039;t robbing me of a life i could have the stomach for.  sick of waiting for the tides of pain to subside enough so i can do something to fool myself that i still have a life."