AboutDr. Ravindra Bhaskar Ghooi Expertise I can provide information on drugs and medicines, their actions, uses, interactions and adverse effects. To avoid confusion, generic names of
medicines may please be provided. I am a pharmacologist, having worked
on animal and human pharmacology, and presently I am the Dean of Bilcare Research Academy, where we teach courses on clinical research. We dont work on saturdays and sundays, hence questions reachng me on these days will be replied on Monday, please bear with me.
Question I have been taking Effexor( 75 mg) for nearly a year now. Recently, I also began taking Ultram once a day for about the last two weeks for a back injury. I have not had a period in nearly 8 weeks and have taken several(7) pregnancy tests which all come back negative. I am working on my doctorate in clinical psychology, which can be extremely stressful, so I thought perhaps that could be the issue. However,my cycle is like clock work...always there each month. Could the Ultram( Tramadol) be to blame? What do you think is the problem? Thank you for any advice you can lend.
Answer Hi Lauren,
There are reasons to believe that Tramadol affects the menstrual cycle. The drug details on rxlist state that the side effect of trammadol is "menopausal symptoms", which could be interpreted as absence of menstrual bleeding. Secondly there are a number of reports of delayed menses by patients on tramadol (see www.medhelp.org)
The other possibility is that stress is affecting your cycles, but the most probable culprit is tramadol.
Ravi Ghooi
