I also am on
Tramadol and asked my Doc once about getting off of it if the other Neurologists said it would compete with anti-convulsants or something.
I am currently on 400 mg a day. 2 pills every four hours although like you said, a depressed mood can be stopped with a little extra since Tramadol (Ultram) is a mood elevating drug.
Even though they clsss it as non-addictive, my Doc says they are wrong and to only cutdown one 50 mg tablet every two weeks. She said depressionwould
be the worse of the withdrawaland rebound pain.