Hey, just jumping in quick from my e-mail update--just wanted to add that my neurologist said that I probably wouldn't have had a seizure from the tramadol (and 6 years before w/ Wellbutrin) if there wasn't something wrong already. The thing is, many of us may have been self-medicating for some unknown problem, that may also make us a higher seizure risk. BTW, I was and am taking Elavil (another seizure-threshold-reducing med) and she still firmly believes this.
Also please, if any of you have had an eating disorder I would strongly suggest that you get off the tramadol. For some reason, the seizure risk is so much higher. Possibly because whatever it is in your brain (like me, could be a temporal lobe abnormality from a small bonk on the head at birth, or later) that made you have an eating disorder could also lower your seizure threshold. I am learning so much . . . enough to know that no one really knows how all this works. Anyone who has not been up on the research in the last 5 years does not even have a clue, as they know an exponentially greater amount now than they did 6 years ago when I had my other seizure. The terminology and the testing is very different now. I am not sure where I found it (short term memory still not back from the concussion), but I did find somewhere online an advisory that tramadol should never ever be prescribed to anyone who has ever had an eating disorder!
I also wanted to point out that my NA sponsor takes tramadol once a month without problems. Anyways, I better go. Still missing you guys, trying to get my firewall working--will drop in later.
rosie
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