My back pain has been awful in the last few years, and
Tramadol was the last resort (other than true
narcotics). Thankfully, It helped for a very long while, it's just now it seems to not last very long.
If my back pain weren't there, I'd stop it in a heartbeat, and I have several times when the acupuncture worked, but of course it stopped working after about a month.
I thought building a tolerance to something meant for the effects -- not the duration.