Dromadol SR - I am taking 200 mg extended release... I still hurt... can I go up to 400 mg extended?

28 Dec 2011

Dromadol Sr is tramadol SR ... and as far as I know you shouldn't take 400mg tramadol SR in a day.

This is the recommended dosage guidelines.

Tramadol Extended-Release (ER):

Patients not currently treated with tramadol immediate-release:
Initial dose: 100 mg once daily and titrated up as necessary by 100 mg increments every 5 days to relief of pain and individualized according to patient need and tolerability.
Maximum dose: 300 mg per day

Patients currently on tramadol IR:
Calculate the 24-hour tramadol IR dose:
Initial dose: Round down to the next lowest 100 mg increment. The dose may subsequently be individualized according to patient need and tolerability.
Maximum dose: 300 mg per day
Due to limitations in flexibility of dose selection with tramadol ER, some patients maintained
on tramadol IR products may not be able to convert.

http://www.drugs.com/dosage/tramadol.html#Usual_Adult_Dose_for_Pain

28 Dec 2011

Hi, i'm not disagreeing, i just wanted to add that i used to take the extended release version and i was prescribed 200mg twice a day - so 400mg daily. I'm not saying this is very common, but it was prescribed for me personally so it is possible. Don't increase the dose without your doctors advice though : )