Hiya Stacey! Welcome to the group ????
I was also taking 8x 30mg codeine (but the phosphate version).
I too went cold Turkey, and I suffered pretty badly. It really shocked me, so much so I decided I’ll never again take that drug.
Is there a way you could taper ? If you were routinely taking 8 a day, you could reduce by one tablet a week, and 8 weeks from now you’d be done! Therefore avoiding the withdrawals ?
I had read the literature of codeine cessation, and 99% of it said it would be 5 days of physical WD symptoms. So I decided that was fine. However it went on for much longer than that for me.
Whichever way you choose, you got this. We are active on this site and will help all we can xx