Codeine can sometimes make people feel drowsy and nauseous. As with any prescribed medicine, codeine can cause side effects — and you should always read the list of common side effects included with a medication, and any warnings printed on the packaging.
Taking more codeine than prescribed to you by a doctor, or taking illegal codeine such as from a friend, a dealer or website , increases the risk of overdose and other side effects, such as:. Lower blood pressure and abnormal breathing, which can lead to respiratory arrest — which is when you stop breathing altogether.
Fatal side effects from another drug if the codeine is part of a combined medicine, such as co-codamol. These include: kidney failure, liver failure, indigestion or bleeding from the stomach. Fatal side effects if you mix the codeine with other drugs that suppress breathing — such as alcohol , benzodiazepines like diazepam Valium , or other opioid drugs.
As with other opiates, taking very high doses of codeine during pregnancy may lead to withdrawal symptoms in newborn babies. People sometimes take codeine to help them manage with stress and depression. Using any drug to escape bad feelings can increase the risk of becoming dependent on the drug. However, long-term abuse of any mood-altering chemical — like codeine — can also contribute to symptoms such as anxiety and depression, so you could be making your mental health worse by taking it.
This may not be true for codeine bought from a dealer or over the internet, however. Codeine bought from dealers or online may not have had safety testing, and could be cut with other drugs. As your body becomes more tolerant of codeine, your cells begin needing the drug to function properly.
This is dependence. One sign of dependence is feeling that you must take codeine to prevent withdrawal symptoms.
Dependence can occur if you take codeine for more than a few weeks or if you take more than the prescribed dosage. Dependence and addiction both cause withdrawal when the drug is stopped, but they are not the same thing. Physical dependence on a prescribed opiate is a normal response to treatment and can be managed with help from your doctor. Addiction, on the other hand, may follow dependence and involves drug craving and loss of control over your usage.
It often requires more support to get through. Withdrawal symptoms may come in two phases. The early phase occurs within a few hours of your last dose. Other symptoms may occur later as your body readjusts to working without codeine. Many withdrawal symptoms are a reversal of codeine side effects. For instance, codeine use can cause constipation.
Likewise, codeine often causes sleepiness, and withdrawal may lead to trouble sleeping. Symptoms may last for a week, or they may persist for months after stopping codeine use.
Physical withdrawal symptoms are strongest in the first few days after you stop taking codeine. Most symptoms are gone within two weeks. However, behavioral symptoms and cravings for the drug can last months. In rare cases, they can even last years. View Center. Athens, Greece. Andover, MA. Boston, MA. Wakefield, MA. Quincy, MA. Canton, MA. Ashby, MA.
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Codeine Withdrawal And Detox Withdrawal from codeine can be very uncomfortable if symptoms go untreated. A medically assisted detox program can help codeine users overcome their addiction safely. Start the road to recovery. Get a Call. Questions about treatment? I thought I was stronger than it. So she got off codiene because the ibuprofen nearly killed her? Reminds of how they used to out methanol and other denaturing agents in ethanol during the prohibition in the USA. Gosh this hits me so hard!
For years my doctor has prescribed me codeine for y fibromyalgia. I started off with just one a day but gradually it increased to around 6 a day.
I stopped codeine for around 6 months , then I would start again. Kept doing this for years. All because of codeine! The first 3 days are horrendous so if you do stop taking it , get some powerade or gastrolyte or anything that replaces what you lose with the chronic diarrhoea and get wheat bags and for the pain as your legs will hurt so much. Give yourself at least 10 days at home.
Make sure you have support too. Many complications can arise with codeine withdrawal so if you feel too sick then get to a hospital.
It just takes longer. I was on panadeine forte for endometriosis and all types of women's business that brought me severe pain. After a full hysterectomy and still the pain persisted. Sometimes sleeping tablets. I stopped going out, surfing, seeing friends. I moved everything into my bedroom. I sold off all my possessions that were worth something over the five years. I hid my shame from my family and friends.
I constantly sweated, had the runs and felt horrendous. If I missed a dose or cut down when I did work I would be sweating and running to the toilet. I am addicted. It started with panadeine I am fifty and on Australia Day when I realised everyone was out celebrating I made a decision to stop.
I stopped cold turkey. I had the worst five days of my life. I told my doctor on day 3 I had not slept in two days. He prescribed valium for restless legs.
Buying imodium is not cheap. Cream for my bottom from the runs. And now I am on day 10 and feel horrible but free. Pain is still here. I have been penadeine forte for 22 years so far I have no problems with it still takes the pain away and my kidneys and liver are fine. I have seen people who, when they were out on the street and there were no drugs available, go through extreme machinations of withdrawal. I have been taking panadein for many years have got down to 6 a day but can't get off them I am starting to get worried has anybody got any suggestions thank you.
Well done for trying to do something to help prevent others from making the same mistake. Well done. I am 1month off nurofen plus and I am struggling. I have taken them for 15years. The first 2 days was horrible, anxious, nauseous, cranky, couldn't sleep, no energy. I understand completely and it's a horrible place to be. This is not about Codeine at all. Its about ibuprofen. Duh it eats your stomach away whether or not it had codeine.
Panadeine forte is safer, she could have gone to that alternative. It still has codeine and still gives you the high. I have been on Panadeine forte for 5 years. I never take more than 8 each day.
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