Withdrawal from codeine - cocodamol 30/500's - Day 2 of cold turkey!

Please help me. I want to end things. I've never been as depressed or dark. I have known I've been hooked for a long time. Very long. I am losing everything I hold cose. Can't manage finance. About to lose my job. My friends are getting fed up of my complaining. I cry constantly. I've been depressed along time and only recently have realised that tylex Makes me feel lighter. I live alone. I have no family here. I have been out of work for four weeks. I've lost track of time. I can't get through. 

I cant do this. I have no one. I am terrified to tell my doctor. I am 41. Had such a bright sparkle. 

 

 

Hi, really sorry to hear how bad things are for you. I have just read through PerfectAngel's posts and I think her advice is very good - this is when things began to turn around for her: "in the end i called the FRANK drugs advice helpline  they were brilliant. I spent 2 hours on the phone to one of their advisors. She was extremely understanding, gave very good advice and lots of support. I found it very easy to talk to her about all my worries without feeling judged."
Try it, you can lose! Good luck, you can get your sparkle back.

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hi dont worry there is always help and things will get better again. trust me i have been there. tylex if like tylnol is very hard to rid ourselves from.. for me my doctor put me on a small amount of methadome and my life quickly became worth living. very happy again very quickly. u can wein yourself off methadone very slowly n safely.. personally i would have switched earlier if i would have known how much better i would be feeling. i couldnt get off tylenol and needed it to feel half normal. talk to your doctor you dont have to suffer any longer..

how did you go with this im in your position as we speak with other tablets addicted to as well

Hi, im fifteen days into cold turkey and although the worst of the symptoms passed in the first week i still have insomnia and aching neck, headache and backache. i sometimes feel that we imagine the pains to be worse than what they are as our minds are looking for any excuse to take ust that one pill, which we know wont stop at one.
What i can tell you those on the early cold turkey days, take immodium, in higher doses ie at least eight mg. This really will help with the aches and pains of thr first week. Just remember this could lead to constipation so take a senna too. Also its important to taper of the immodium within seven days. Using the immodium helped me to carry on with everyday life which when you have wo children you have to.
Also if you have a craving try a hot bath. If you are laid in bed wide awake get up have a walk about, watch TV or read a bit otherwise you will lay in bed gettimg more and more frustrated.
I chose not to tell my husband of my problem as he is a police Officer and has preconcieved ideas about drug addicts. He also suffers depression and doesnt need my issues too.
Ive done alot of thinking about why i use cocodamol as i think this is where i went wrong after my last cold turkey attempt last year. Thinking back i used on and off for knee pain and headaches however when hubbys depression got bad and i felt like i needed to be mum and dad to the children i remembered the warm buzz that came from two of these little white pills and used them to help me cope. After hubby finally admitted his problem and was put on antidepressants i continued to use, taking up to forty of the eight mg tablets daily.
My husband got better and came off his tablets, however he has relapsed to some extent but wont admit this. I came to the realisation that if i have to be mum and dad to my children then im going to do it clean.
As i said earlier i still feel awful but mentally im feeling quite strong.
To anyone out there just about to begin your journey you can do it, it may take a couple of attempts. It may be better to taper for you although i was unable to do so. Read the forums, find something to take your mind of the hard times, try the immodium and most importantly work out why you feel the need to take the tablets.
Good luck to you all.

Glad you are off them tablets. ive been on them for years also but the past 2 apprx i would say just habbit, i felt they calmed me down when i had my problems so i continued to take them.I moved out the country and thot well iv no choice but come off them as i cant get a perscription now but the chemists wher i am sell the 30/500 so i didnt come off them, i decided apprx 3 weeks ago to cut down day by day and iv achieved, im now only on 2 x 8/500 a day which i will stop tomoz. i feel so much better and half tryed cold turkey so many times and failed so i would defo advise the cutting down to come off them, hope everyone gets themself off these horrid things xx

Hi you are not alone this happens to loads if people drs just fish out meds don't tell the dude effects when you try to stop them it's hard you wil be fine rm

I have been taking co codomol 30/500 for 10 years, I did stop for 2 years about four years ago and I have no idea why I started them again, I guess I thought I would be ok. All I know now is the way I feel after 5 days of cold turkey I will never take a codeine based tablet again. I started when I was 22, looking back I can't believe I was prescribed 100 for a "sore arm". Anyway I liked the feeling, and still do, but knew these little soul stealers were ruining my life. I slept a lot and like many others planned my day around taking them. I read someone who had posted that they got good at popping round the table so others didn't notice, that's what I did! I decided on Thursday to stop for good - it's now Tuesday and I am beginning to feel better. The posts on her really have helped me at night when I could not sleep for wanting to rip my arms out through acheyness, I just read and re read posts. In my opinion the water helps but begin drinking it before cold turkey and also multi vitamins. I didn't take Imodium as I read the toxins come out quicker through the Bowles (not sure if that's true or not but that thought helped). I'm on day 5 and all the aches and pains are subsiding ( due to three hot water bottles strapped to me and gentle walks) I also didn't sleep in the day as I felt it might help me get in to a natural sleep pattern quicker. Write a list of the horrid feelings in a diary so when your your weakest with a craving you can look at it. Cravings last around 5 minutes so busy yourself through them, and acknowledge that's what your having and you are getting through it, gradually over time they will become less frequent. I think each night one tablet will knock me out and then I remind myself of the badness they have caused me. I've got a way to go but hopefully it will be on wards and upwards and back to the land of the living. Good luck to anyone stopping these tablets - you can do it !!!

hi, im on day 4 off cold turkey, ive been taking cocodamol for nearly 2 years for know reason really but change from solpadol to kaplin witch since then have sent me crazy ive done nothing but had bad panic attacks and anxiety, please will someone tell me this will stop its making me panic more that i will never get back to how i used to be 

Hi I'm on day 17 of coming off Di-Hydrocodeine 500mg 8 a day. I've been on codeine in various forms for 34 years without a break, for arthritis, it was not my intention to cease the medication but I had a complication with an operation, caused by codeine, so I had to stop the medication.  The initial withdrawal symptoms were bad but were over by the end of two weeks.  What I'm left with is the fatigue, it's an effort to walk and there doesn't seem to be any answers to when the fatigue stops and normal life begins.  some people advise supplements but there are as many suggestions against them as for, I'm confused, any suggestions.  

One final thing, since stopping the codeine, my arthritis symptoms have disappeared, the doc says it's the brain generating the pain to get more codeine

Apologise, my previous post should read 30mg codeine 500mg paracetemol 8 a day

You are brave. I have been on 30/500 for 1 year 6 months and now I've had my surgery I do not need tablets and then noticed that i do need them I felt I had to have 2.. It got me worried so I seen the doctor and he informed me about the addiction. I thought it would be a good idea to stop now. First day I went from taking 16 tablets a day to 2 a day then two days later I stopped taking them for 2 days and once I hit 48 hours I took 1 tablet. I haven't had bad side effects but I surely do not need them any more. I had bone arm and back ache like I had a long work out. And felt a little dizzy but it didn't bother me thank god. But coming of them slowly is a good way to go if your worried about hurting really bad. By the way I'm on day 7 of quiting and I haven't had one for 3 days and feel good. So I won't be doing another one :) I hope all you guys out there that are suffering get help quit

kerri i started taking the same and it has increased the scary bit was trying to stop , my whole body ached so much that i had to give in , i want to stop but dont know how

hi just read ur post i have been on cocodamol for at least 20 years sometimes i would take 3 at a time but more or less staying within the recomended dose of 8 a day i tried about a year ago to get off them but got to about 7 weeks and then for some reason maybe i was feeling a bit depressed i remembered the lift cocodamol gave me and stupidilly went back on them iam now going to give it another go i took my last one on the 5th november i know what to expect the nausea,joint pain,sweating, and probally feeling down but this is it determend now stay with it kerrie

I see that this is an old thread.. but I wanted to offer you all words of encouragement. I was hooked on tramadol for 3 years. This year tramadol became a controlled substance, and so I was left in limbo. I turned to dihydracodeine, and although it wS hard to switch it was the beggining of my road to recovery. I had no intentions of quitting, I found it too hard.. But as soon as I switched to the codeine, I decided enough was enough. I have 2 children, and have found out I'm pregnant again, we are over the moon, and so this was my chance to stop! it's taken 1 month, and I put myself on a taper plan. believe me, this was so so hard, but not half as hard as it would have been if my children had have been taken if midwives found out! .... I have gone from 10 x 30mg a day, down to 1 x 30mg a day in one month. This has been hard, but I did it! .. If you can commit to a taper plan it won't be as hard as cold turkey, as long as you follow your taper! even if you cut out half a tablet in your dose each time your drop. I sympathise with all here! It's the worse thing ppl can go through... But it DOES get better! I promise!!! I'm living proof! ... Next Friday I will be taking my jump to no codeine at all.. And I'm nervous but looking forward to beating this! :)