[Alex84]

Hi Guys. I am so grateful to have found this group, topic. I was on codeine for 6 years, roughly 200 mg a day. Today I’m on day 18 of detoxing. The first days/ first week was surprisingly ok. I was mostly experiencing diarrhea and general weakness. The real hardcore started on day 13. It took me completely by surprise. Massive panic attack, feeling light headed like never before, muscles and joint pain, weakness in my body to the point I wasn’t able to put on my shoes, headache, neck pain, diarrhea got more intense even though I couldn’t even look at any food, emotional wreck (couldn’t stop crying). Day 16 I started feeling better but still very weak. Day 17 (yesterday ) was a breakthrough. I was a lot stronger, happier, started feeling proper hungry, felt like the worst is behind me. Woke up today feeling lightheaded, worse and weaker  than yesterday which brought me down completely. I even feel pain in my chest and freaking out its actually my heart and not only anxiety. My head also feels a lot heavier than yesterday. I am loosing hope that it will ever be ok/normal. Can somebody tell me please whether its normal to still feel this bad, achy and weak at this stage? And how long can it last until I’m feeling healthy?

BTW even though I don’t know anyone here I feel so emotional and proud reading your posts. Well done to all of us x

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