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Posted: June 25, 2016, 7:23 AM
Hi there. Just wanted to get some advice from people who may have been through what I'm currently going through as I feel like nobody in my life, as great as they are, can possibly understand what I'm going through so any advice would be great.
I've been taking nurofen plus for around 20 years. I suppose I should say "thankfully" I only ever took the maximum recommended dosage of 6 a day. But I don't suppose the recommended amount is supposed to last 20 years. But as hard as it is for the people who've been taking 30 a day for 3 years, while I don't have the volumes of codeine per day to come off, I do have a much longer period of time that my body has become used to it, so I don't know which would be worse. Anyway, around November 2015 I started feeling sick a lot from the constipation it gives you, and this went on around 3 months, so I decided to cut down to 4 a day (I'd tried cold turkey before in 2010 and it nearly killed me) from January and had been doing that every day, till about a month ago. I took a laxative for my constipation, and ever since I've had dreadful diarrhea, and normally a couple of nurofen plus would sort that out, but from that day onwards, whenever I've taken nurofen plus, or co codamol a few times, it's made me fee even worse than not having it. So I got down to 2 a day for about a week, before I just couldn't eat. Eating with codeine in my system was just making me feel really sick, and depressed. So 12 days ago I stopped taking anything with codeine in it altogether. I've been to the Drs and the hospital to have all the tests to make sure I have no ulcers, cancers, deficiencies, I've had X-rays, scans, bloods, samples of urine and stool and all came back as no problems. I'm having a colonoscopy in 4 weeks as the final test to make sure I have no internal damage. The Drs have put me on citalopram anti depressants because I was basically lying in bed all day and night, going crazy as to what was wrong with me, I had constant stomach pains, nausea, diarrhea all day long, could barely eat, have no strength to hardly stand up. Couldn't even watch tv I was so depressed and nauseous over my stomach. If this had happened AFTER I went cold turkey, I'd have said yeah, these are all withdrawal symptoms, but this stomach and depression started while I was still taking nurofen plus. I've just been saying to myself, after years of blocking myself up with codeine, and taking laxatives, and taking codeine on top of that again, it's possible my body's just finally said, right that's enough, this has to stop. The other problem I have is, as with the codeine blocking me up, if I take Imodium for my Diarrhea, my stomach just doesn't like it, and I feel REALLY nauseous for days. So I can't even take that to stop it now. So in the end I had no choice but to give up taking nurofen plus cos they were no longer making me feel better, they only made me worse now. So I guess I'm lucky in the respect that I know I can't even relapse, cos it's pointless cos they only make me feel worse, so no going back there. It's been 12 days and I still have the nausea, the not wanting to eat, the runs. But I don't feel as bad as I did a week ago. But I think that could be the anti depressants kicking in.. I just basically want to know, does this sound like typical withdrawal symptoms, or should my stomach (nausea and runs) have cleared up by now? I am TRYING to eat a little more this past couple of days, but I don't really want to, and I'm still barely able to manage more than 5 minutes on my feet before I need to lie back down. I just wonder how long am I supposed to put up with this before I start to feel a bit better? Will it be longer for me than others because I've been doing it 20 years? Thankfully I'm allowed time off work at the moment to help deal with this but not sure how long that's gonna last. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers. | ||
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Posted: June 25, 2016, 7:06 PM
You should not feel like this.Go to your dr again.sissie.
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