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Sadly I relapsed last week, the anxiety was too much for me and I couldn’t get to a doctor so just gobbled from pills. Disappointing but this will help me in my next attempt. Going to go to the doctor and see about getting on anxiety meds prior to the next stopping attempt. Using codeine to manage anxiety is bonkers.
This forum is dead, partly I hope because there aren’t as many people struggling currently but I expect because this thread is too large to load for many. I’m logging this here for the record.
Christmas has been and gone and it went well without any significant anxiety. It’s my day to day I’m struggling the most with and the lack of motivation, god the lack of motivation is tough.
I’m coming up to 2 months clean now and the cravings have been easily manageable compared to some of the other vices I have given up in the past.
Peace and strength to anyone out there struggling today.
Day 40 for me now and I don’t think I have any withdrawl symptoms at the momebt, although it’s tricky to know what my base level of mental health is. Still feeling anxiety but I suspect this is normal now so I need to deal with it.
I’m really proud of myself, can’t believe I made it this far. I hope everyone is doing OK, you’ve got the strength inside you to do this.
Thank you Maria and you were spot on, the next day was OK, in fact the last few days since have been fine despite a couple of tricky days of work stuff which sometimes set me off. I’m grateful.
Thanks for your encouragement, it means a lot, as does reading through everyone’s comments and past struggles. This forum is a godsend.
My anxiety has gotten much worse today, I’m meant to be writing a report at work but I’m struggling not to burst into tears and rush home. CBD and breathing not touching it, which is unusual. Last couple of nights sleep have been poor (not relates to codeine I don’t think) so this may be a symptom of that, or vice versa of course. I will get to the GP on Thursday if tomorrow is as bad as this.
Day 28 today, and I hope I’m done with the physical symptoms of withdrawal. Mentally things need to be taken very slowly and care taken not to relapse on bad days. I’m proud of my progress and when life gets tough it’s useful to think back to the battle and overcoming adversity, but I’m still very anxious, may need to see the doctor about that to address the underlying reasons I tend to go back for the codeine.
I had a couple of bad viruses in the time I’ve quit the codeine, I assume my body was not up to fighting the virus. Just this weekend overcome nasty sinusitis. Work has been keeping me distracted and luckily had a few fairly easy weeks to help my recovery.
I hope everyone struggling today manages to stay strong.
Day 19. I’m feeling a little better but my mood has been so sour over the weekend, snapping at loved ones who don’t have a clue what I’m up to isn’t good. Physically I’m feeling OK but had a rotten cold last week, which provided a decent excuse for lying in bed for a couple of days at least.
My taper seems to have worked well enough so if anyone is interested I was on about 24-32 N+ per day and managed to taper down to 8 per day by dropping 10% per week, a few setbacks but this took about 3 months and I stayed like this for a bit, then I went over to the 8/500 co-codomal, taking about 10-12 per day and then slowly tapered down on these until I was taking 6 a day, I tried to go lower but the withdrawals were getting bad. Then just stopped and moved over to normal paracetamol.
Another week, keep on keeping on all.
Day 12 for me now. Physically the symptoms have been OK, a bit like a bad cold which is something I’m used to recently anyway. Mentally the anxiety is high and it’s tough, horrible even. Hoping this phase passes but I imagine it will be a tough couple of weeks. I have some decent CBD oil to take the edge off but probably not enough of an edge. Motivation is low but that’s fairly normal.
I hope everyone else suffering currently is doing well.
Hello all,
I’ve been reading this forum on and off for 3/4 years now. It helped immensely when I was trying to abstain after my previous giving up attempt but alas, I relapsed about 3 years ago. I’ve managed over the past 6 months to taper from NP x 12-15 per day to ‘just’ 8/500 co-codamol x 6 a day. I wasn’t planning on stopping but I had a few days booked off and was just fed up of the pharmacy nonsense so I decided to give it a go and so far I’m on day 7 and it hasn’t been too bad physically. Mentally, who knows, quite often and with hindsight I see my behaviour was odd but at the time I have no idea. I haven’t spoke to anyone, this forum is my crutch, as it was the last time. This time there will be success only.
Peace to you all.