[rosiegold]

Hi Sophie! 6 week codeine free lady here !mum of 3 and let me tell you if I can do it you can too. You have to want to stop them with all your being and you have to imagine a better life for yourself. You can do it! Dihydrocideine was my preferred pill of choice too but the mere thought of them now makes me wince. Just stop them – rid yourself of the poison. I promise after 3 days you will start to feel better -accept the withdrawal and allow it to pass through you. You will need Imodium, plenty drinks with electrolytes , a good multivitamin and either Nytol or prescribed diazepam. 3 nights of 5 mg diazepam from my trusted friend helped me immensely. More importantly please do not beat yourself up – feelings like these will drive you back to the drug. Instead try to work out why you feel you need these drugs to live your life and feel good. Imagine a life and a future free of these tablets. That’s what I did and I’m so happy. I feel no guilt toward myself or my ‘addiction ‘ it’s all gone – past tense. I’m thinking of you and sending love your way. You can do this xx

[sophie28]

I’ve chosen the taper method because I’ve still got 90 tablets left and I want to minimise the withdrawals. I’ve been thinking and writing down why I started taking them and why I keep taking them and I now accept all them reasons and I finally feel ready to do this! I’ve done really well today and I feel so motivated and I haven’t craved like I usually do. I’ll normally wake up take 2 tablets and within an hour I need another 2 but today I took 2 when I woke up and it’s now been 4 hours and 20 minutes ???? I really can’t believe it!! This is massive for me! My aim is to only take 4 30mg tablets today so I’m waiting as long as I can and then I’ll take 1 more and I’ll see how things go and if I can manage off 3 I’ll only have 3. I was taking up to 12 a day which doesn’t seem like a lot compared to some of the stories I’ve read on here but I am determined the most I’ll have today is 4 and any less is a bonus. Well done for getting off those horrible drugs and a bigger well done for doing it with 3 kids. My mum is a long term dihydrocodiene user because of her conditions but I really can’t believe there’s not much support out there if you want to come off them. There’s no help from the doctors either. Once I’m off them I’m thinking about going public on social media to maybe help others xx

[jamie5]

Hi Sophie my story is so much like your I started with a few tabs from my dad for headaches it progressed to a long ten year addiction to dihydecodine, I started cold turkey today took two tabs at eight this morning, that’s it 17 hours longest ever I have to see a doc tomorrow about some kind of replacement but think I am going to tough it out, everything people say about addiction is so true but I didn’t realise it was so wide spread it’s everywhere affects so many

[sophie28]

Well done for going so long that’s awesome. I can’t go to the doctors I’m worried about what they’ll say because I shouldn’t of been taking them in the first place. I definitely can’t do the cold turkey, I can’t handle the withdrawals

[rayz]

Did you manage to quit? I was doing between 30-50 DHC pills every day for 3 or 4 years and have just managed to quit with almost no withdrawal effects by using kratom

[sophie28]

Unfortunately not. I’m still taking the horrible tablets. What’s that? Did you go to the doctors for it?

[rayz]

No, there’s loads of websites on the Internet that sell it. You should look it up as it’s helped me quit quite easily. 5 days and the only symptoms I’ve had are tiredness. It’s a ground up leaf which is in the coffee family.

Here’s a documentary about it. As soon as I found out about it I knew would be able to quit.

https://youtu.be/azdVvbywvd4

Its basically saved my life

[rayz]

And read this

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/kratom-opioid-addiction#.tdNyD7779

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