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Nurofen plus withdrawal
Hi everyone - I have just come across this forum - and would like to ask help and advice. I have been taking nurofen plus (ibuprofen + codeine sulphate 12.8 mg per tablet) for 5 years - I take about 24 tablets per day (all at once - like the feeling along with the pain killing effects)
I must give these up - for I understand this is addiction - and must find another way to deal with pain.
I guess nurofen is much like tylenol (2? 3? 4?) - dont know which one.
So on Sunday I took 24 and on Monday I took 12 - felt lousy today and took another 12 - the plan is to stay on 12 for 3 days and then go to 6 for 3 days.
Do you think this is feasible? I have to continue working and functioning - I have a family of 4............ So - I cannot just go c/t. I am thinking that perhaps cutting to 6 on Thurs might be too much, but I am due to go to the US on the 14th for a week with my daughter - work and fun - and I want to be off for that trip.
Any advice would be so helpful.
Thank you in anticipation
chewey
I must give these up - for I understand this is addiction - and must find another way to deal with pain.
I guess nurofen is much like tylenol (2? 3? 4?) - dont know which one.
So on Sunday I took 24 and on Monday I took 12 - felt lousy today and took another 12 - the plan is to stay on 12 for 3 days and then go to 6 for 3 days.
Do you think this is feasible? I have to continue working and functioning - I have a family of 4............ So - I cannot just go c/t. I am thinking that perhaps cutting to 6 on Thurs might be too much, but I am due to go to the US on the 14th for a week with my daughter - work and fun - and I want to be off for that trip.
Any advice would be so helpful.
Thank you in anticipation
chewey
Well, I am nearing the end of Day 3 no Nplus, still on the trams, still smoking the little bits of hash and weed I have left.
I am really hitting bottom :(
MY boyfriend just dumped me.....it was a fairly new relationship, but I liked him and I feel gutted. THe only good part is that now nothing is stopping me from going Cold TUrkey as of Monday. I am down though, like really down.......I am kinda scared going cold turkey off the tramadol will just push me into a sadder state, but I want to stop. I am so unhealthy, I have gained a LOT of weight since I started the Nplus 3 years ago, and I really want to get back into a healthy life....but I am here again at rock bottom.
I am really hitting bottom :(
MY boyfriend just dumped me.....it was a fairly new relationship, but I liked him and I feel gutted. THe only good part is that now nothing is stopping me from going Cold TUrkey as of Monday. I am down though, like really down.......I am kinda scared going cold turkey off the tramadol will just push me into a sadder state, but I want to stop. I am so unhealthy, I have gained a LOT of weight since I started the Nplus 3 years ago, and I really want to get back into a healthy life....but I am here again at rock bottom.
Hi there, I have just been googling tramadol and the wikipedia entry makes it seem pretty scary, but a lot of Internet sites just report worst case scenarios as if they were commonplace so it's perhaps not as bad as it seems.
However, I would counsel that if one is trying to lead a normal life then one has to limit self medicated or recreational drug use to a couple of nights a week and try to keep at least four days and nights free of all addictive and stimulating agents. Since I have made this my aim in life I have found a lot more willpower and am developing a good routine during my nights off where I get a decent night's sleep almost as soon as I turn out the lights. It is somehow much easier to kick the habit if you think only four nights to get through than if you think only day four of the rest of my life, oh what a huge task I have set myself. Also these four nights clear out your system and you actually feel healthy and satisfied during the day which is definitely a good thing. Less than a year ago I was drinking half a bottle of vodka and taking at least sixteen nurofen plus a night and life was just an aimless sludge until I started getting ulcers one of which eventually started bleeding leaving me in hospital, so I stopped taking them for about a month until I encountered a setback and was on them again until about two months ago when the ulcer returned and I had to see the doctor and cut the pills out again once more. Since then I have taken a few boxes but have not been addicted and am much more active and doing more and seeing more people.
I am not sure that I have the perfect long term solution, because I still feel compelled to do something at the weekends, but should I ever need to drop the hedonistic lifestyle for reasons of money or relationships or health, which will probably be the case in the future, I will be much more capable of doing so than I was back two months ago. For me it is the realization that I cannot escape the need for a few nights drug free every week if I want to have any form of engaged lifestyle at all that is sustaining me. I have sort of admitted the limitations of myself as a thinking, feeling machine and am living within those limits and am not altogether unhappy about it.
I just thought about it in terms of hours....just seven hours more and then another day will begin and I will have completed another day off. I found that about three weeks of breaking up my addiction and living normally was enough to sort of implant it in my mind that a certain amount of healthy living was how I wanted to live, and I still feel the same now.
With best wishes,
Cali.
However, I would counsel that if one is trying to lead a normal life then one has to limit self medicated or recreational drug use to a couple of nights a week and try to keep at least four days and nights free of all addictive and stimulating agents. Since I have made this my aim in life I have found a lot more willpower and am developing a good routine during my nights off where I get a decent night's sleep almost as soon as I turn out the lights. It is somehow much easier to kick the habit if you think only four nights to get through than if you think only day four of the rest of my life, oh what a huge task I have set myself. Also these four nights clear out your system and you actually feel healthy and satisfied during the day which is definitely a good thing. Less than a year ago I was drinking half a bottle of vodka and taking at least sixteen nurofen plus a night and life was just an aimless sludge until I started getting ulcers one of which eventually started bleeding leaving me in hospital, so I stopped taking them for about a month until I encountered a setback and was on them again until about two months ago when the ulcer returned and I had to see the doctor and cut the pills out again once more. Since then I have taken a few boxes but have not been addicted and am much more active and doing more and seeing more people.
I am not sure that I have the perfect long term solution, because I still feel compelled to do something at the weekends, but should I ever need to drop the hedonistic lifestyle for reasons of money or relationships or health, which will probably be the case in the future, I will be much more capable of doing so than I was back two months ago. For me it is the realization that I cannot escape the need for a few nights drug free every week if I want to have any form of engaged lifestyle at all that is sustaining me. I have sort of admitted the limitations of myself as a thinking, feeling machine and am living within those limits and am not altogether unhappy about it.
I just thought about it in terms of hours....just seven hours more and then another day will begin and I will have completed another day off. I found that about three weeks of breaking up my addiction and living normally was enough to sort of implant it in my mind that a certain amount of healthy living was how I wanted to live, and I still feel the same now.
With best wishes,
Cali.
I haven't been on here in a while (posting that is), but I have been lurking again .....
I came here a while back to try and stop the Nplus, and I did manage almost a month, but then I started using Tramadol for the WD's and then I started back on the Plus, so I was on Tram AND nplus, lol! I got some lectures about the tram before, but a friend of mine has been getting boxes and boxes of tramadol every month, and she has been giving me a box all for myself every month: free.
So here is my current situation:
I am now on DAY 2 of NO nplus.....and I take 50 g of Tram in the AM, and another in the afternoon/evening. I am trying now to stabalize after giving up the Nplus (i was down to 2 pills twice a day before I stopped, and I STILL feel kinda ******, even with the Trams and a small bit of marijuana I got for weaning myself off!) This Nplus stuff is really heavy duty for me, I can't believe how hard I find it to stop taking it, makes yer body feel so good, and then SO BAD when ya stop!
ANyways, I am going to just ride with the tram and marijuana for the weekend, but starting next week I want to start weaning off the Trams. I am at 100g a daY, but my problem is that I only have 100g pills. I want to wean, but not sure I can really do it with these pills. I have about a months worth of tramadol left, only about a half-weeks worth of weed, so I think i can do this, just not sure HOW i should go about it.
Thanks for any suggestions....and sorry for all who are struggling, I have to admit I was a bit gobsmacked when I saw certain names back here saying they had relapsed as they were all off the pills the last time I was here!!
M.
I came here a while back to try and stop the Nplus, and I did manage almost a month, but then I started using Tramadol for the WD's and then I started back on the Plus, so I was on Tram AND nplus, lol! I got some lectures about the tram before, but a friend of mine has been getting boxes and boxes of tramadol every month, and she has been giving me a box all for myself every month: free.
So here is my current situation:
I am now on DAY 2 of NO nplus.....and I take 50 g of Tram in the AM, and another in the afternoon/evening. I am trying now to stabalize after giving up the Nplus (i was down to 2 pills twice a day before I stopped, and I STILL feel kinda ******, even with the Trams and a small bit of marijuana I got for weaning myself off!) This Nplus stuff is really heavy duty for me, I can't believe how hard I find it to stop taking it, makes yer body feel so good, and then SO BAD when ya stop!
ANyways, I am going to just ride with the tram and marijuana for the weekend, but starting next week I want to start weaning off the Trams. I am at 100g a daY, but my problem is that I only have 100g pills. I want to wean, but not sure I can really do it with these pills. I have about a months worth of tramadol left, only about a half-weeks worth of weed, so I think i can do this, just not sure HOW i should go about it.
Thanks for any suggestions....and sorry for all who are struggling, I have to admit I was a bit gobsmacked when I saw certain names back here saying they had relapsed as they were all off the pills the last time I was here!!
M.
To get off this stuff is not hard. You taper down for a week or tow and quit solid for a week then You can take them again at intervals, as you used to.
And believe me, you will feel as good when you have kicked them as you felt bad when you were kicking them.
Believe me, the drug will rob you of your feelings for real life, just realise it's the drug that makes you feel crap, not life.
And believe me, you will feel as good when you have kicked them as you felt bad when you were kicking them.
Believe me, the drug will rob you of your feelings for real life, just realise it's the drug that makes you feel crap, not life.
Im in the UK, from Preston in Lancashire to be exact.
I just want to help people who have suffered the way i have. I lost everything that was worthwhile in my life because of these all to avalible tablets. Theres plenty of help for people suffering from addictions to drink, class A drugs etc, however not even drugline at the moment can really REALLY help people addicted to these tablets, of corse drugline with disagree with that, but i have been under them for help and it did not work, the advice they gave my family to catch me out or notice tell tail signs etc were all wrong, and the more and more i read the more i know that with my help and experience, along with the Doctor i have working with me, we CAN help you!
I just want to help people who have suffered the way i have. I lost everything that was worthwhile in my life because of these all to avalible tablets. Theres plenty of help for people suffering from addictions to drink, class A drugs etc, however not even drugline at the moment can really REALLY help people addicted to these tablets, of corse drugline with disagree with that, but i have been under them for help and it did not work, the advice they gave my family to catch me out or notice tell tail signs etc were all wrong, and the more and more i read the more i know that with my help and experience, along with the Doctor i have working with me, we CAN help you!
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