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Hi all
I know first hand about otc codine and the grip on your life as it falls apart around you
After my accident and 3 weeks in hospital taking daily what they give you get sent home with a box of oxycodone.
When this ran out the real pain started. From the damage to my ribs and lung its like a knife going in and out of my chest every time I breathe.
After seeing doctors to get repeat scripts one bright spark(doctor) told me to use panadine extra which is half strenght panadine forte and you dont need a doctors script to buy it.
After six months of daily poisoning myself with paracetamol I stopped taking these tablets and thats when I was in real trouble.
I never knew what pain was until the horrors of codine addiction started.
The next six months was off and on the pills just to go to work and get through the day and starting the night sweats again.
I didn't even bother going outside to look up at night and become a grumpy old man and nothing made me happy.
Two years on and now im used to the knife in my chest without tablets but im ready to crumble on a daily basis.
I have since found out that im not alone and there are thousands like me slowly destroying their liver with paracetamol that goes along with the addictive codine.
Continual uses of opioids actually lowers pain threshold and therefore you cant cope with minor pain and starts this cycle again.
Hope this story can help others.
P.S.
Looking at a clear nights sky is more healing than any drug every invented!!!!
Andy
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