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Yeah they know me by face and name at my local one too but they still ask me stupid things when I go in even though they know what my prescription is since I pick it up every week, can't stand them.
The usual dose time is 4 hours I know, but that's when taking it 30-60mg at a time, not 200mg a time right?
The only reason i'm taking damn codeine is to try stave off wd's from DHC which it isn't doing a great job at but I don't want to take too much and have a histamine release.
Lol...yeah Lloyds are pain in the fucking arse...they used to deliberately give me the wrong kind if fentanyl patch and when I'd complain they'd say "well you've opened the bag now"...like how the fuck would I know what was in it if I hadn't opened the bag?
With regard to your codeine..it kind of depends as people have different amounts of the enzyme that converts it to morphine but generally speaking (and it is only generaly) 600mg over a 24 hour period seems to be what most pain specialists recommend as the absolute maximum.. So as a guide if you're doing 200mg then I'd say 3 times a day
Someone is bound to disagree here based in something they've read in a text book but I'm just going off an article I've just read which was a study based in a real pain patient by a real pain management doctor.
Also there seems to be a degree of tollerence with regard to the histamine release....if you haven't experienced it on your first and second doses of the day, you're probably not going to at all.
edit ...here is the case study where I got the 600mg figure from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231548/
Quote "Codeine has a maximum recommended dose of 600 mg daily,?as it is dependent on the enzyme cytochrome P450 2D6 to metabolize it to norcodeine and to morphine, which is the actual analgesic."? .....
which is taken from..Repchinsky C, editor. Codeine Contin product monograph.?Compendium of pharmaceuticals and specialties 2007.?Ottawa, ON: Canadian Pharmacists Association; 2007. p. 562.