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Thursday, October, 29, 2009

The Side Effects Of Tramadol

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What Can Be Done For Nerve Pain

By Christina Lasich, MD Health Expert

The experience of nerve pain is described with a variety of terms: burning, hot poker, itching, tingling, lightening, shooting, electrical, and so on. In medical terms, words like hyperalgesia and allodynia are used. Hyperalgesia means that an area is overly sensitive to painful (noxious) stimuli like a pinprick. Allodynia means that an area is overly sensitive to normally non-painful (non-noxious) stimuli like light touch. Both of these phenomena are hallmarks for nerve pain.

 

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...TRAMADOL - ORAL Pronounced: (TRAH-muh-dall) Side Effects Nausea, vomiting, constipation,... Read more »

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