Codeine Withdrawal

[dais]

Those are the exact symptoms of the flu, i don't see how no one thought of that, people do get sick sometimes.

which are exactly the same as minor wd effects

 

[pbuilder]

no idea why everyone so quickly pointed to APAP overdose lol. OP you mentioned a sore throat along with your symptoms, you caught a cold.

 

[pally pete]

I don't think you are withdrawaling to be honest. You didn't take obscene amounts of opiates, and codeine is a very weak opiate as it is. More importantly, you weren't using for long amounts of time uninterrupted. You used for a couple days, took double that time off of them, then used for a couple more days. This is actually a fairly tried and true method of avoiding withdrawals. You probably just got a little bit sick.

For future reference - if you do feel withdrawals after ceasing your opiate use, just go to the drug store and buy some immodium. The active ingredient is Loperamide, which is an opioid. It has a tough time crossing the blood brain barrier, so you won't feel any sort of high unless you take large quantities (I don't feel any type of high unless I take 96mg+) which is why it is available OTC as diarreah medicine, but if you take 3-4 of the 2mg pills it will take away ALL of your withdrawal symptoms.

Ive tried that method of use like you say, where i may use quite heavily for a couple of days and then take a week or two off yet i still suffer terrible withdrawals, yet when in the past i have taken slightly more moderate amounts but for consecutive days over a longer period of time, say 1-2 weeks i have suffered much less severe withdrawal symptoms.

As far as the immodium method you mention goes all it did was stop diareah and bloat me up and that was just taking 3-4 pills, i would'nt even like to imagine how awful one must feel if they were to ingest 96mg+!

 

[dais]

i don't think anyone with a codeine habit would be replacing it with 96mg imodium that would be extreme over doing no matter what usage you were at. i still don't understand people needing to take such high amounts to help. 6mg/day with baclofen and apap was more than enough to hold me after coming off a reasonably large morphine habit.