I desperately need help with codeine addiction

[poetrybabe]

Hi there, Can anyone out there PLEASE help me ? I am a 33 year old woman and have been addicted to codeine 30/500 tablets for 15 years for chronic back ache. Over the past few years I have seen my life slide out of control but I need to change it now. I didn't realise there were other people like me out there. I feel as if I want to end it all now. I have tried to wean myself off the tablets gradually but it doesn't work so am now on first day of cold turkey. I relapsed once before but I can't do it this time as I am frightened I will die soon cos of my addiction. I know I face a hellish few days and am in tears as I write this. I am a worthless human being who has allowed myself to become addicted to a drug I genuinely didn't know was addictive. Can ANYONE out there please offer me some words of advice or motivation ? Has anyone out there beaten their own addiction to codeine ? I'd love to hear from you as I am in the bowels of hell at the moment. Thanks  Poetrybabe xxx

[treglx]

you sound as though you have made up your mind to do this, and as they say"what ever you want begins in the mind".
Yes you will go thru some hell at first, but you will be free if you want it bad enough. You can do this, people have kicked all kinds of drugs YOU CAN KICK CODEINE.
Keep posting, This is where i get my inspiration.