Listen, I want to tell you guys something...I've been taking tramadol for 8 years along with lortab and it helps with my back pain, but when my prescription runs out I suffer horrible withdrawal. Withdrawls from opiates, unlike ANY other drug are very real..the pain is not a mental thing...at all. Its physical and it causes fever, diarrhea, the shakes, I'm 26 years old and I know I'm young,but. Dr has prescribed them for years and take my word...this is not a habbit you want.