coming off codeine

go see your doctor, if they are good docs they will give you a short controlled course of diazepam that reduces over 10 days!!! Yes the withdrawals are aweful. ive done it. i wanted to climb out of my own skin but it DOES get better and the withdrawals wont kill you!! Maybe try a 12 step fellowship to help and support you!! It has worked for me!!! It will get better if you abstain completely !!! all the best!!!

hi claire 1984 i also have a heavy codeine addiction 20 30mg per day and yes the deceit is something we all understand i recently told my gp who put me on anti depressants to get me stable and told me we would tackle the codeine in two months i feel better just for telling her as like you mine was a huge secret dont try to come off it on your own see a doctor but we all know how hard it is personally i think it should only be given as last resort hang in there i shall soon join you

I wonder if anyone still reads this line - I have a lot in common with the earlier posters - 55 and about an 8 year addiction

to prescription codeine - 270mgs a day - supposed to have been broken up into 3 doses, but I took it all at once at bedtime

in order to help me sleep. I was also taking Cymbalta, and I am still taking 1.5mgs of Xanax - I have managed to get off the

Cymbalta, but the codeine is ruling me. I've cut down so far, to 150mgs, but I'm going through the same severe withdrawal

that everyone else describes - I'm going into day 3 - and I'm starting to wonder whether I shouldn't just cold turkey the

entire thing and get it over with instead of trying to wean myself off. God willing, if I can beat the codeine, the Xanax will be

next, and likely just as rough as the codeine - my husband is supportive, but there's no end in sight to the hell I'm in - I have

FM, arthritis and so along with the usual pain of just trying to quit, there's all the FM symptoms rearing up as well. I've

started taking Glucosamine and and Omega-3 to help address that issue, but those won't even begin to have any effect, if

they do at all, for at least 3 months, I'm told - I hope someone is still out there - the nights are the worst, they are so very

long and so very lonely.                   

hi ive been taking nurofen plus for 5 years now i sometimes can take say 3 of them one day 10 the next that sort of way im now with a support clinic and start yesterday tapering off them ive vitamins and everything to help i feel like ive the flu and restless legs but not feeling too bad i heard valdrian is suppose to help with sleep and the stress part of coming off them ive also booked an appointment with my gp for kidney and liver function test for weds  hopefully  they are not to bad also epsom salts are suppose to help in the bath so will try that later on anyone else used the valdrian  and found that it helps  any tips or advice i would be gratfull ive also been in 3 chemist since yesterday and  near had a panic attack  not buying them but i think i done well not getting them thanks

I'm 3 days into this getting off-codeine, very secret addiction no body knows anything about it, 9 years I have been on this stuff and I am sisk and tired of taking this c**p, I'm sore all over my joints are killing me, I've diarrhoea and headaches, short tempered, don't be ashamed of this addiction the stuff should be banned and the the people in chemists know this because it is the best seller in every chemist, and they know this, I deserve this the way I feel, if anyone else I'd out there on this sh*t stop you don't need it

I so understand how u guys are feeling I'm on day four of cold turkey and it has been very hard yesterday was awful but I got through it I got so scared everyday about running out of my codeine that I got for the month but would only last me a week I confessed to my husband I had become an addict and went to my doc for support I take Imodium to help with constantly needing toilet and herbal nytol they do help good luck guys wish u well
Al

You have done really well and should give yourself a pat on the back. I agree with you its not an easy thing to do. I am taking 12 x 30mg daily for back problems and sciatica. I only get so many off my GP and have to buy the rest. I am supposed to take 6 daily but after many years on dihydrocodeine I have to take more to get the same effect. I am now desperate to come off them, but know this is hard to do, I have been cutting down the last week and feel fine, am just hoping that it continues to be that way although I doubt it. Once again I think you have done very well and continue to feel better. Florence

I want to get off Codeine. I have been taking it now for several years because of a serious back injury. Can you help? What is the best method for getting off Codeine?