Re: Dihydrocodeine>> what is it?

From: david morris (morris394@aol.com)
Mon Oct 28 11:19:22 2002


At Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Sally Grigg wrote: >
>Dear Michael, What is dihydrocodeine in common language? Thank you. Sally
>

>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Michael Vizard" <> what is it?">mike_viz@hotmail.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
><> what is it?">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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I HAVE BEEN Px DIHYDROCODIENE FROM THE DOCTORS AT A CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINIC
AND AM ABLE TO GET REPEAT Px FROM MY GP.
LIKE OTHERS I HAVE ALSO BEEN TOLD THAT DHC IS NON ADDICTIVE IF TAKEN ONLY FOR PAIN CONTROL
I BECAME CONCERNED ABOUT A LIKELY DEPENDENCY DEVELOPMENT WHEN I NEEDED MORE THAN 180 MGS A DAY IN DIVIDED DOSES
TO CONTROL THE PAIN. TAKING ADVICE FROM MY DOCTOR WHO IS A SPECIALIST IN PAIN MANAGEMENT I HAVE ALSO HAD TRAMADOL TAKEN TWICE A DAY ,IN THE AM ,AND AGAIN AT NIGHT PRIOR TO  RETIRING
THIS REGIEME AT PRESENT WORKS WELL FOR ME AND I DON,T FERA ADDICTION

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