Codeine addiction (Nurofen Plus)

Oh Marnie, I would say please get some help, but I'm a fine one to talk. I take 32 Nurofen plus a day, that's because I normally use what the doctor gives me too soon and I need something to stop the withdrawals. If I have enough money then I'll order prescription from a dodgy company. Mine finally comes tomorrow and my stomach hurts so much from the Nurofen I've taken that I'm going without until it's delivered. My stomach is in constant agony and I know that something is seriously wrong but the shame stops me seeking help, I would either approach your doctor and tell them the problem and they can help you get off them or ask for some pain relief for your original problem and that will stop you using the Nurofen. Don't leave it too long, if you need a warning, please read some of the tales on here. Some of them are just horrific, good luck xx

Please tell your doctor Marnie, my story should frighten you. I good doctor will understand. I never told my doctor because I was so ashamed.

I have given Drew advise on how to get off them, if you feel you can't do that, please see you Dr. But do you want to end up in hospital for 2 weeks, come out and then have to go back on? Have a tube shoved down your nose, throat and into your stomach? Carry a bag that's attached to the tube for days? The tube is stuck to your nose with thick sticky bandage and constantly pulls down on your nose, it's hard to move and every time you swallow, you gag because you can feel a tube at the back of your throat. Then there was all those endoscopies with the ulcer growing over the stomach outlet. Go see your doctor today. Good luck.

Hi ashamed, Good advise  you're giving, please read my story again, you sound like you have the same and if you do have an ulcer and leave it unattended, it will grow over your stomach outlet. Shame stopped me from seeking help until I couldn't stand the pain any longer and it really frightened me when I vomited that morning and all that food and tablets came up that had been consumed days earlier. Even when they told me in emergency what was wrong, I still didn't say a word about the Nurofen until a specialist came to see me, I was so frightened I would be labeled a drug addict but they treated me with respect. Good luck, please see someone and get off those things, they are very dangerous when taken in large doses.

To everybody reading these awful stories about sustaining stomach damage, 

if you are addicted to taking Nurofen Plus or a similar Paracetamol based medication, then you can remove the Paracetamol/Ibuprofen  from the codeine, this will Stop you wrecking your stomach, please do some investigation into cold filtration methods on the Internet.you do not have to wreck your stomach with ulcers, with the resulting hospital treatment. If you are abusing pain medication, then research into How to do it as safely as possible, you must stop if you can, but until you are able to quit, or if for whatever reason, cannot go to the doctor, at  least stop wrecking your stomach, liver and kidneys, Do not put yourself into hospital when there is no need to, 

im not preaching to anyone, I've been through NPlus addiction, and I'm tired of reading person after person going through unnecessary misery and surgical procedures.

Wise up, Read up and make a change., it's never too late!

Hi again Rob. i remember you saying that you can separate the codeine. My doctor prescribed codeine and paracetomol but I don't want the ibuprofen or paracetomol xx

Hi Robert

I'm sure if you yourself have been through a n plus addiction it is not as easy as that to just 'quit' I'm so sick of people saying just quit it can't be hard it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me. If I knew how to get the codeine without the paracetamol or ibuprofen I would have done that by now!

Anyone know how you can get it without the paracetamol or ibuprofen so I can slowly cut down without going cold turkey or wrecking my stomach by the time I'm 19?

Also just because I'm young I don't want to be told your too young to be addicted like the doctor said to me no help at all

Hi Marnie

Rob really encoraged me to quit and I was doing quite well. It was awful but bearable until about the 5th day. Rob told me though everyone is different. I need to cut down because I found it hard to function at all.

I too am looking for a way to get the codeine without taking all the other crap. I hope Rob will tell us how to do this.

One thing I did notice when I stopped taking it is that I found my real passion coming back. I listened to music again and started to notice a pretty girl. My trye feelings had been stifled by this horrible stuff but the physical withdrawl was not nice x

Hi Drew,

I think maybe what Marnie was getting at is scaring the f*@$ out of people isn't the best way to approach an addict.

Heck I was in hospital weighing in at 35kg's, skin and bone, vital organs on the brink of shutting down and I still took codeine.

I took N+ for 9 years upwards of 90 a day at one point. I went cold turkey twice (I couldn't do the weaning down thing) and it was bloody torturous. But it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be bearable. The chemical makeup of your brain and nervous system are changing.

Youre spot on about the passion though. When I quit, I could actually feel again. Im still struggling to get used to feeling emotions again.

I think Robert might benefit from being a little less dictatorial. If he wants to put the info out there, great but there's no need to say stuff like, hey everyone on N+ do this or die (I am paraphrasing). He says he's not preaching but that's exactly what he is doing. It's not as black and white as he's making it to appear...

I mean no offence to Robert. It's just this ladies opinion.

Nikki

Thanks Nkkii. When you came off it, did you find energy levels increasing? x

Hi Marnie,firstly, nowhere in my post did I say "just quit"

just enter " cold filtration methods" into a search engine and you should find all the information you need,

 I'm done with trying to help people on here, you either get ignored or made a mug of, so no more for me,

 good luck with your quest to get clean,

Rob

And nikki, my post did not need paraphrasing, people on here are intelligent enough to read and comprehend by themselves. My post was perfectly clear, 

iv posted for a long time on this forum, I've been polite, considerate, caring, the whole nine yards, I made one last post, it was blunt and straight to the point, but truthful. And if one person reads it and acts upon it, then it will have Been worthwhile, If you find it dictatorial, then that's your interpretation

and your problem.

and if anyone isn't scared after reading what you managed to do to yourself, then they should be, and anyone who writes that they "don't regret being a drug addict"  shouldn't be giving advice to anyone, people don't need 

A Level psychologists on here , explaining what "I was really saying" 

good luck to everyone getting clean, and even you nikki, but I'm done, enough is enough!

Hey Robert. I didn't catch these earlier discussions but I just wanted to say that I appreciated all your comments. I tried to do it your way and found it very difficult but I am so glad I did it because I began to get my emotions back and it's a glimpse of what I could become again without the dreaded codeine. You also were very clear in saying that 'everyone is different' so what works for some may not work for others. Like you, I wish everyone here well. It is such a terrible position to be in and I hate every day of it and rue the day when I first took Nurofen Plus. Best wishes. Drew

Hi again rob

My comment may have come across as me being rude I wasn't we are all in the same boat on here and that's why I find it easier to talk to the people in here as they all know exactly what we are going through. Thank you for telling me about the filteration methods I will try and have ago although it seems abit hard to do.

Would you be able to tell me how you got off the n plus? Or anyone on here that has got off it tell me how and what you did.

Thanks Marbie❤️xo

Marnie!!❤️

Hi Marnie

I tried cold turkey but failed because I had to go back to work and I couldn't function. If I had had a couple of weeks, I might have done it. What I have done now is be honest with my GP. Last year, he wasn't very helpful but I made him listen!!! I have worked out a plan with him. He moved me on to Paracodomol. This is because of the damge that Ibuprofen was doing to my stomach. My target is to only take 8 per day by the end of June and gradually reduce. It isn't easy because it's always tempting to occasionally up this dose but it does keep the withdrawals at bay. I am checking in every two weeks with my doctor. I don't feel quite as alone. I even plucked up the courage to tell a close family memeber. Up until now, I had kept it a secret. I just long to be free of it. Hope that helps Marnie. I don't know much about your story but feel free to talk to me x