16 and Possible Drug Addiction This Is Hell Please Advice Needed.?
Question by Ihatebirds: 16 and possible drug addiction this is hell please advice needed.?
Hi, recently I’ve been taking codeine(nurofen plus 12.9 mg codeine 200 mg ibuprofen) for neck pain. I have a herniated disc in my neck and its very painful, Im only 16 years old. About a month ago I was prescribed tylenol 3’s…but the doctor only gave me 6 for fear of me being tyoung and getting addicted. Then I got the otc nurofen and have been taking one everyday for a month. Except, I chew them instead of swallowing whole, and I feel like its released into me stronger. Recently Ive been scared and take about 4 a day. I stopped for one day and noticed I had headaches in school, one moment had 101 fever then felt cold, weak, I felt like I had the flu. I took a codeine an hour ago now im fine. Can I really be addicted or is this just starting the addiction? Today in school it was like a damn slap in the face, 1st day off it and guess what we’re learning about the opium wars in global class WTF. Idk if its all in my head or im really addicted or maybe I legit do just have the flu. I need help, I think but I can’t tell my parents I need rehab they have no idea about this and I won’t disappoint them. Ive been feeling so weak and depressed and cry for no reason when Im off them. I need advice am I addicted and how do I stop it has only been 1 month. What should I do??
Sorry this is a repeat, no one really answered and I put it in the wrong section before D:
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Answer by Just Call Me D
Pretend “addiction” doesn’t exist for a moment.
You are experiencing something called withdrawal. This means once you are deprived of a substance that your body enjoys or gets used to, it will want it back. Only a few medicines have this side-effect, “withdrawal”.
Given time, it will pass and you won’t have to worry about the substance again. Codeine and other opiates are very “addicting” or in other words have a horrible “withdrawal” stage that one needs to get through in order to be put at peace again.
Just get through it. The more you do, the worse it is when you don’t have it. You need to continue taking Ibuprofen or whatever you are prescribed and try to forget about the codeine, which is a MILD MILD opiate, to say the LEAST.
Oxycodone is 60x the strength per MG than codeine. To put that into perspective would be a bad thing….just stop while you’re ahead please. =) Withdrawal doesn’t last long. 2-3 days max since last dosage, but is usually a 24 hour occassion.
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