I was wrong about that. My initial script was for 30 pills (not two per day) and it said "every 6 hours as needed for pain". In any case, I had only taken about half of the 30 over this past month and I saw the doc again today and all is well there! An LPN is actually the one watching over my use of the Tramadol, and she and the doc are each quite satisfied with how things are at this time.