Hi everyone
I am new here, have been reading through this thread while isolating with covid. It is such a relief to finally stumble upon a group of people who “get it”. A bit about me, I started taking nurofen plus probably about 20 years ago now for period pains but never got to a point of taking them regularly until maybe 8 to 10 years. Again, nothing too bad maybe 4 a day but as we all know it creeps up on you and over the course of the last year its gotten to a packet of 24 a day, sometimes 30. I really feel like its gotten such a grip on me and i want more than anything to eventually get them out of my life. Back in February i went to Spain for a week and ran out of pills by day 4. The last 3days were horrendous as I went into withdrawal, i had the sweats, chills, headaches and the rest, oh the insomnia. It was an absolute nightmare. It really showed me this is bad and i need to deal with it. I want to do the taper method as i don’t think i have the mental strength to do cold turkey. I know lots of you have done it and you are all amazing. So my plan starting tomorrow is to cut down to 20. I feel like writing it down makes me accountable, may sound silly but literally nobody in my life knows about this and I could never bring myself to tell them either.
Sorry for the long rambling post. I am just so happy i stumbled on this post as it gives me hope that one day ill be writing my own success story