Pain
"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."