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codine withdrawal

by jacotrdz, Dec 12, 2001 12:00AM
when i stop taking codine, i get really sick. is there something

(over the counter), that i can take to releave these withdrawal

symptoms.
Member Comments (22)

by Seamstress, Dec 12, 2001 12:00AM
To: jacotrdz
Check out this link:



http://pub37.ezboard.com/bthenewaddictionmedicineforum



Click on "The Recipe."  This is an aid for withdrawl symptoms.  You can also go to the Family Forum for support and dialogue and answers to your questions. No medical advice just experience.



Good luck and hang in there.

by butterbean, Dec 12, 2001 12:00AM
Tonight on 48 Hours, they have a special on the epidemic , taking Painkillers, the New Epidemic.  I think we all need to watch this.  It comes on at 10pm  in most places.  Good luck to all of you who are fighting and trying/succedding in beating the addiction.  These pills can get you in a day!!  Don't blame yourself!  Watch the show!

Love Butterbean

by Witchywoman, Dec 12, 2001 12:00AM
Thanks for the heads up on that show Butterbean! I'll definately watch it.



love,

WW

by cr8zdee, Dec 17, 2001 12:00AM
This is the first time I have written on a chat board about my problem, but I read with great interest that other people like myself are having the same sort of problems.

    I was taking Tylenol #3 for about 2 years and got it by doctor hopping.  When I could not doctor hop anymore, I found that I could get Tylenol #1 without a prescription.  The codeine is a lower dose so I end up taking 3 times as much.  I am taking at the moment 9 tablets every 3 1/2 to 4 hours.  So another words I'm slowly killing myself!  I have sought treatment and I was clean for 2 months but I then moved and started again.  Is there anyone out there who can talk with me.  Here in Canada we can get this without a prescription so i feel like the temptation will always be too easy so why try to quit again.

     Any comments will be greatly appreciated.



                               Cr8zdee

by raptor182, Dec 19, 2001 12:00AM
I, as a 6 year perscription pill abuser would like to report an unexpected success in the area of self-treatment.  I have found success in recovery with the use of clonidine.  I have found that after a relapse one can actually forgoe 95% of the pain of withdrawl by careful use of clonidine.  I usually will take two 0.1mg tablets before bed, leaving two additional tablets by the bedside.  When withdrawl is in full effect a patient/abuser can rarely expect more than 4-5 hours of uninterupted sleep.  When I wake, I quickly take the two other  clonidine tablets and wait to fall back to sleep.  In addition my doctor has me using the Anti-depressent/Sleep medication Trazadone.  Using this method one can expect to get 6-8 hours of sleep or more.  Also, by maintaining clonidine in the blood supply one tablet every 6 hours while awake will have the effects of keeping muscle spasms to almost nothing.  I have found that by keeping the physical symptoms to a minimum, the focus becomes the inherent depression one feels during withdrawl.  I keep my mood up by watching fun entertaining movies and eating "comfort foods".  NOTE TO EVERYONE: If an patient/abuser is taking powerful doses of dangerous narcotics in large quantities this method does not help.  This method is useful to pain-management patients and pill abusers that use between 1 darvocet (very weak) per day to 2 percocet (very strong) four times a day for long periods of time.  This method has the best effect for patients/abusers using hydrocodone 5/500mg three times per day.  



Many doctors I have spoken with feel that an abuser should feel the pain of withdrawl so they are relunctent to make the same mistake twice.  I understand the logic in this, but I can't help but feel this information would benefit doctors that have patients that become addicted through no fault of there own.  



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by joey25, Dec 21, 2001 12:00AM
To: Raptor
Raptor you are a moron. You speak as if you wished you were some kind of experienced drug addict. Get real ass.  You have so intelligently invented this complicated answer to withdrawl symptoms that doctors shouls take note of. You are an idiot, and Clonidine and Trazadone are no secret to anyone with a brain. I would love to see the day that a true pill/heroin addict got more than 4 straight hours of sleep during peak withdrawl.  That will happen when pigs fly out of my ass you stupido!A person is lucky to get 2hours!!!!!! Go back to your 2 Darvocets a day. If that's all I was taking I wouldn't need anything and the withdrawl would be fine.  So go take your clonidine and tradone jerkoff! Try doing 10 bags of heroin every day, and then take your little withdrawl system you have so brillantly come up with. *******.  By the way dont forget to try and patent your system , you wouldn't want someone else taking th4e credit for it!

by ssfr, Dec 30, 2001 12:00AM
To: joe12345
your attack on raptor was not only uncalled for, it was damned rude and uncaring-  if you have constructive comments to make- than make them- otherwise no one cares to listen to your ****- i dont know how raptor feels- but if you lived close to me- and i knew who you were- i would gladly stick my boot up your butt and try to straigten your brains out- assuming you have a brain.

by KariJam35, Jan 22, 2002 12:00AM
Hi everyone!

I need some help here. Im basically an acoholic I think.

Anyhow I also have a codeine problem. Ive been taking typlonal

1's for over 2 years now and now Ive stopped drinking and trying to stop the codeine. My question is? Ive had headaches none stop now, is it from stopping the codeine? I know your not doctors Im just worried now is all. Im just looking for some insight to my problem cause Im having a very hard time and Im very miserable and grumpy.

by siobebop, Mar 16, 2002 12:00AM
I just joined this site and read a post from Jan. from someone trying to withdraw from Codeine. The answer to the headache question is this. Withdrawal from Codeine causes "rebound headaches". Continuing to take the codeine for the headache will obviously not work for detoxification purposes. There are some good headache meds, unfortunally, many are addictive as well. I can recommend Ibuprofen and lots of ice packs until the headaches subside. Good luck, it's tough to go it alone.Although it's also tough to go to a 12 Step program, all research on addiction points to recovery through A.A., N.A.(Narcotics Anonymous) or at the very least, group counseling. You know, some type of emotional support. Again, good luck.

Siobebop

by GOD, Mar 17, 2002 12:00AM
To: KariJam35
Just one question.... does "Wonderland" mean anything to you? if it does, you may want to try Valley Hope Treatment center. They cured me!

by Sammyrc, Mar 18, 2002 12:00AM
Gosh...........I never realised that I wasn't alone. I am addicted to painkillers. I take 8 nurofen plus tablets a day and feel like **** for doing it. I amnot even sure what the codine content is but I take 4 at a time. It started at 2 for the odd headache and it has reached this uncontolled level. After reading this notice board I am going to wean myself off them, cutting down by 2 at a time.

good luck to you all, any advice would be great. No one knows about this but me - help

by yadidiya, Aug 13, 2007 09:27AM
To: Sammyrc
wow i came on here to research for an assignment, but starting to worry..
since breaking it off with my boyfriend, the past few months have been absolute emotional hell, and to start i was experiencing emotional AND physical pain through feelings of guilt and self-blame, and found nurofen plus to be the right strength pain killer i needed... now these few months later im finding myself taking at least 8 a day and recognising that 3 at a time has little to no effect anymore..
my friends dont know i take that amount, no one actually does, i dont have a problem do i?
its a quick and easy way to get rid of physical pain, and also helps emotionally to a great extent as well, but i could stop if i wanted its just i dont want to...
some advice? should i stop? do i actually have a problem i should look at? coz i dont think i do

by User Friendly, Sep 18, 2007 04:57PM
To: Everone
Hey everyone just wanted to say @ the end of the day Addiction is a illness - so before anyone gives anyone any stick. I work in a hospital and people obviosly are puting comments on here because they want help- If you suffer from addiction then you should be able to understand this. Drugs which act on the central nervous system are normally the ones which are highly addictive. for example Heroine, which when taken either orally, IV or smoked reaches the brain within seconds. They are all mostly pain killers. Diamorphine is actually pure heroine. Hospitals use this for people who r in agony used for a variaty of different resons including when people are having heart attacks, to aid in the releive of pain. Basically Addiction is when the body is/or becomes dependant on that drug to make the body function. That is where the withdrawral side of things comes from- you become and feel very ill, because you body isnt working properly because it relys on that drug to do so. Symtoms of a withdrawral of an addiction can be, anything from Shaking/tremors, headaches nausia(feeling sick), depression, vomiting, irrational thoughts, itching