How Best to Stop Taking Mersyndol??

[gravitypope]

Hi,

I am 29 year old female living in Canada and I am addicted to Mersyndol.  I was able to stop for awhile a year ago, but I went right back to taking it again...I can't go to sleep at night without it.  I am up to 15 pills a night now, and I desperately want to stop.  I began taking them for headaches, but now the re-bound headaches are much worse if I haven't had my daily dose.  I am terrified at what I have done to my internal organs, and I know that now is the time to quit.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how best to do this?  I could really use some advice...feeling lost and a bit hopeless about it.


Thanks.

[1Mick]

You have an Serious addiction to Codeine. This is what is causing you not to sleep & most likely causing other problems in your health as well. You can check your self into a Detox centre. The best one to go to is the William Osler Detox Hospitial in Brampton. The staff there are very good, They will ask you how many pills you have been taking & for how long. Your young , so it will take anywhere from 5- 10 days to detox you. Don't come to TO to get into a detox here. This place is the "Holiday Inn" of detox centers. If you need more info, just get back to me. All the best & your making big first step.

[dharmaloves]

I too am addicted to them. I live in Australia and am able to buy them over the counter. I have a brain tumour, which gives me unbearable headaches/migraines (it is my 3 brain tumour and I have had 2 removed). I was on morphine years ago, but I chose to stop cold turkey. They tried me on panadine forte (about hundred per two weeks) but I hated it. I find the mersyndol a calmative and helps me sleep and I take them in 3's. Maybe up to 3 times a day. How do you sleep without them????

[ImOverThisBS]

Take Epsom salt baths. Magnesium sulfate will soak into your body it really helped me withe that restless body feeling. Good luck

[TelusWhat]

I too think I am hooked on mersyndol. Using it to fall asleep at night i mostly take only 2 pills but if I have a bad headache I'll take 3 pills. Been using for 7 or 8 yrs now. Yes it's still quite easy to get in Canada. Luckily I don't consume alcohol as I know it does not mix well with the mersyndol. I used to take gravol to fall asleep but I found it dried out my system. Just don't want to take sleeping pills everynight either. So for now it's the mersyndol. I think this product replaced the old 222's. with codine.

[aurorajane]

hello,  I am in a similar situation to you.  I started taking mersyndol to treat migraines and then have been taking them for the last year or so to also fall asleep, I generally took 1 and at the most 2 at night.  I noticed it would give me a mild headache the next day and I've started to only take half.. but sometimes still can't sleep .. and by 3 in the morning tke another half.. I've also noticed a considerable amount of weight gain and am keen to do a detox and try to get mey liver et. back to healthy n also detox out of needing these to fall asleep. xoxo exercise and early mornings are my strategy.  I'm even more determined now i've read these post about people taking 50 per day!  this is addictive stuff and I'm keen to get healthy.  cheers :)

[maggiejean68]

Hi

I used to take  mersyndol  for migranes only and it used to fix them.  But lately I have been taking them every night to sleep. Thankfully only two but I have been known to take 6 per day at times.  I can function drive and car and work on the night time ones.  In Australian you can buy the chemist brands and even though they need your name to buy them you can buy in bulk lots of 40.    I noticed the other day that my ankles are swelling and my weight is out of control like I am retaining fluid.  For me I really think this is a wake up call like it is ruining my liver.  I need to get myself of them because I believe it am addicted.  It worry's me.  I am sure the only way is to get no sleep for awhile and heavily exercise.  Every night I say this is the night I will not take them and then I do.  I have not been able to exercise since I have started taking them as I sleep so heavily that I just can't wake up to exercise.  I also find they make me grumpy as hell at the kids in the morning.  Really sure I am on a bad path!