[dinn33]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. I plan to read every reply on this page to give me some much-needed motivation at the very start of my journey.

For the last 4 years I have been taking, on average, 32 tablets of Nurofen Plus per day. Each tablet has 12.8 mg of codeine and 200 mg of Ibuprofen. I always took the whole amount straight away, rather than spreading them out through the day. I knew I could get more codeine if I switched to over the counter co-codamol, but I was afraid of the Paracetamol dose and I couldn’t be bothered to extract the codeine each day. Foolishly, I wasn’t afraid of the 6400 mg of Ibuprofen I was taking each day. I have since learned of the risks and the dangers I was ignorant of. I am extremely lucky to still be alive.

I am determined to beat this addiction, as it has destroyed everything in my life in just a few short years. I have gone to every local pharmacy and asked them to no longer sell me anything that contains codeine. I visited 9 shops in total, and each one of them knew me well and agreed to my request.

Today is day number one. I feel okay at the moment, aside from anxiety and fear for the withdrawals that I know are coming. Wish me luck.

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