Codeine exteme pain
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I have become addicted to paracetamol and codeine. I dont take a high dose but i take 1000/30mg twice a day, even if i am not in pain. I recently have developed gastritis (burning lining of stomach/ulcerations) due to the codeine on an empty stomach for 7 years. I am starting to want to take more and more. It also makes me really fatigued. So i decided to stop. Last night was a full 24 hours off the drug and i was up the whole night in extreme pain. My shoulders, wrists, hips, knees andankles were aching. Worse than ever before.I put an ice pack on them and eventually after 2 hours with tears running down my face i took just one pankiller which allowed me to sleep. Have any of you tried to come off opiates? Any advice for me?
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Macvee FlowerFace
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Have you spoken to your Doctor about your medication? Coming of anything that we are addicted to is hard. I was on Oxycontin, Oxyn8rm and various other plls for years.. I came of it all at the same time but I my left side spasms made my life hell. I did sleepbfor a few days. I still take pregablin but it doesn't help any for my pain. Please I urge you to go to your
Doctor for help if you can.
christine26761 FlowerFace
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jeanne81532 FlowerFace
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patricia78625 FlowerFace
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yes I have tried to come off my codeine but I can't because I cannot function without it
I can take up to eight a day but only take four to get me up and moving about I also don't sleep at all at night last night I was still awake at 3am then I tried to sleep but only got one hour this is a problem of mine too but I seem to function ok on such short amount of sleep but when I overdo things the fatigue sets in and I have to give up which I hate. I used to be on morphine patches and a strong antidepressant but managed to wean myself off of those but I can't do without the codeine the pain is so severe that I wouldn't be able to get out of bed. It does give me other problems like constipation but I manage that with herbal senna hope this has been of some help
Patricia x