Co Codamol Addiction

Is there an Addictive Behaviours service in your area? You can self refer and they see hundreds of patients in a similar situation and never judge. They would really help with the withdrawal symptoms helping you come off codeine slowly and safely. Hope this helps. Good luck.

           I had an addiction to painkillers for 5 years mostly Dihydrocodeine and was buying packets of Paramol over the counter and was spending alot of money ( £5.99 box of 32 ) a week on them. I was going through roughly a box of 32 a day and it was gettting to the point where the chemists in my area refused to sell me them so I had to travel on the bus to the city centre where there was loads of chemists. I stocked up on these until one day I decided to make an appointment with my doctor and tell him everything. I'm glad I did as he started prescribing me pure Dihydrocodeine because the tablets i was buying had 500mg of paracetmol in each tablet and he was more worried about the amount of paracetmol I was putting into my system each week. After a couple of years of trying to reduce them I ended up getting referred to a specialist centre not far from me who took over the prescribing and checking of my health. In December 2013 I went into rehab for 3 days. The day before I went in I took my very last Dihydrocodeine and then went 25 hours without anything at all,the reason for this is that they needed all the opiates to be clear from my opiate receptors before giving me medication to help with the withdrawals. Those 25 hours were the worst hours I've ever had to endure and I nearly walked out of the rehabilitation clinic and go buy tablets to make myself better but I stuck through it and I'll be honest.....I'm so glad I did otherwise I probably wouldn't be replying to this as everyday I was overdosing and one weekend I took a mixture of tablets 120 in total and ended up in hospital with an overdose. I nearly lost everything and everyone I loved just because I wanted my hit. I would advise you to make an appointment with a doctor, try finding out which is the most sympathetic doctor in your surgery and make the appointment with them and then explain everything to them....Do Not Be Afraid To Be Open And Honest because if you don't....then they can't start helping you in the way you need. Good Luck and I really hope you get all the help you need. P.S find out if there is any Narcotics Annonymous meetings near you and if there is then visit as it'll help you and no one will judge you as you ain't the only one who's been in this predicament.