>----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Vizard" <mike_viz@hotmail.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Addiction and Tolerance to Dihydrocodeine>> Is there a way to
withdraw successfully?
> I have been taking Dihydrocodeine on a regular basis (Daily) for 12
> years, from the age of 18.
> I have built up quite a high tolerance to them in this time, but find i
> have absolutely no problem in stopping taking them for any length of
> time from a week to a month. I have an extremely high pain threshold.
> The main problems people have in stopping is that they are constantly
> being told it is a dangerous and highly addictive drug. It isn't. The
> doctors handbook (MIMMS) states that : " Despite contrary beliefs,
> Dihydrocodiene when administered for pain relief is non addictive"
> I regularly take between 240mg and 360mg per day. I have on a really
> bad day been known to near the 500 mark. I get on my prescription 100
> 30mg tablets and can run out in 6 days. Yet i can just stop taking them
> without it bothering me. I do take a less adequate painkiller because i
> am always in constant pain day and night and have been for the majority
> of my life, but i find that i can put up with the pain for the reason
> that. If i carried on taking the Dihydrocodiene i would become so
> immune to them that they would have no effect whatsoever.
> You may find that your friend has also been told that the next step up
> is morphine. Once again this is untrue. Actually if you go onto
> http//www.google.com and search for dihydrocodiene there are plenty of
> sites that will tell you that it is far inferior to believe it or not,
> Ibuprofen. I myself was quite shocked to find this out. Dihydrocodeine
> tablets can also go up to a strength of 120mg per tablet. I hope i may
> have helped you in some way. If there is anything else i can do to help
> you, don't hesitate to e-mail me. Believe me it really is all in the
> mind when you are always being told that it is addictive. It is easy.
> It is far more difficult to give up smoking i know that one.
>
> At Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Helen Dynda wrote:
> >
> >I received an email from a fellow adhesions-sufferer who has become
> >dependent and has developed a tolerance to the medication he is taking.
> >Dihydrocodeine is an opiate agonist medication. In his letter he said:
> >
> >"The pain controlling medication that I am using is Dihydrocodeine
> >180mgs a day. Unfortunately I have become dependent on this and it no
> >longer offers the amount of pain control I now need. I am also on
> >Amitriptyline but only 25mgs a day."
> >
> >Since I do not have an addiction and tolerance to the medications which
> >I take for chronic pain, I would like to know if any of you have
> >experienced addiction and tolerance to any of the medications which you
> >have taken...and if so, were you able to be detoxified successfully from
> >that medication?
> >
> >Thanks for sharing your experience!
> >
> >--
> >The 15th century proverb which summarizes the purpose of medicine is:
> >* To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. *
> >
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