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I'm on Tramadol for back pain from a car accident. According to my doctor and the physical therapist who treated me, it's just muscle pain and should go away eventually, but it hurts nonetheless, so until it does the medication helps a lot. I never take it if I know I'll have to drive, only when I'm done with any errands for the day. I have a feeling the lady who hit me was on something, I don't want to end up doing to someone else what she did to me, so mad props to you for waiting til you got home to take it, I'm the same way. Sometimes I feel it more than others. I was originally prescribed Valium and that just didn't really work for me, but for other people it works great. My doctor said "different strokes for different folks".
Tramadol usually works pretty well for me, but sometimes one doesn't feel like enough. Two usually takes the pain away, or at least makes me not care about the pain as much when I still feel it. I hope this helps, and I hope you feel better.

Also, Vicodin works extremely well, you might want to give that a try.