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This might seem like a really stupid question but i just wondered how long does it take to get addicted to painkillers? not that i want to do that but i have a feeling i might be already. I used to hate medication and mostly i won't take anything but lately i have been taking painkillers alot and when i don't take them, i feel the need to and i want them, does this mean i am addicted to the them. Would i have needed to be taking them for a years or would weeks or months be enough to be addicted.
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Yes...it's possible to get addicted that quick !!! Stop now and see a doctor about your headaches. Tell the doctor you can't take narcotics. The pills will be your ticket to hell.
I promise you...
Good luck~
I promise you...
Good luck~
I started them a few months ago for tension headaches and generally feeling unwell due to depression and anxiety. At the start i didn't like taking them but after a while they actually made me feel better, and now when i don't take them i want them and the feeling they give.
I'm not sure if i am addicted as i said before i haven't been on them long and i didn't think it possible to get addicted that quick.
I'm not sure if i am addicted as i said before i haven't been on them long and i didn't think it possible to get addicted that quick.
Why did you start taking them and how long have you been taking them?
Thanks everyone, i haven't been taking them long thats why i asked, but i just sent my partner this evening to buy more as i had a terrible headache he didn't want to because he said i have been taking too many which made me think, am i really. I was sick so i had a good excuse. The strange this is i suffer from depression and anxiety and i won't take medication for it so i wonder how i managed to get addicted to painkillers. I know i need to stop them now, hopefully i can.
First of all I don't think your question is stupid at all, and honestly I think you are already addicted. I think were all different and no way to really tell how long it takes anyone to become addicted so to speak.
Get off them now before it gets worse.
Get off them now before it gets worse.
I think you answered this yourself. At least concerning your usage and why you take them. If you are taking them for any other reason then api, you are probably heading down that road to addiction. ? Time to get addicted? It seems everyone is different.
yes you are addicted, you can become addicted after just one, you answered your own question by saying when you dont take them you want them, quit now and get some help
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You need to decide now that it would be in your best interest to get away from them. That feel good affect will be shortlived as you continue to use them leading eventually to a place where you need to take the pills "just" to feel normal..You don't want to go there..And it sounds like if you don't change course now, before you know it, you will be in that place trying to find your way out as so many in this forum are attempting to do right now..