Cocodomol addiction help

[justme26]

So please go easy on me as really struggling at the minute aware I'm posting in wrong group but other posts silent and know a lot of people are on this one and need help as can't talk to anyone else
I gave birth to my little girl nearly 8 month ago love her so much and I couldn't live without her
A few weeks after having her I started taking cocodomol to help with pain
Then that turned into it taking full strips at a time
On a night to help me sleep - I was exhausted just couldn't switch off
A lots happened over 8 month, my Nanna passed away due to COVID I had a missed misscariage back in November and things have just went downhill from there
I'm currently taking a full box of cocodmol to get me through the day
My full body aches without it them and I get the most awful migraines I really want to stop but I physically can't
Find myself walking round the town to different chemists every day to get more and it's not the way I want to live
I've finally plucked up the courage to ring doctors this morning and currently waiting for a phone call back
However I've been thinking will they take my baby off me if I tell them? I don't know wether to answer the call incase they say I'm unfit to look after her
I'm not she's well looked after I just need them to function now and get through the day
Thanks for reading xx

Of methadone that is, not heroin

I tell myself that’s what I’m going to do every time I get a new box, but then if I don’t take as much I don’t be feel the affects, so I take more, then they start wearing off so I take more again.. it’s a vicious circle. I know it’s so so bad and I need to stop, but the thought of stopping makes me panic

It must be so hard. I feel for you. I hope this doesnt sound too trite and clueless but have you looked in to hypnosis? Just to give your own hand a hold as you embark on something so challenging. Xx

That's exactly me, taking more each time cos I don't feel the effects because my body's just so immune to them
I'll be completely honest since Friday I've had 10 over the past 3 days even with the codiene but I'm proud of myself as it's so much better than the 32 I was taking everyday
Probably not the way to go about it but tomorrow to Thursday I'm gunna cut down to 9 then Thursday to Sunday 8 tablets
I can't stop just like that completely but I know I can beat this

10 is great progress. Well done!

Try not to do it too fast. I did that and another poster on my thread advised me that I was going too fast. I was. It was not good and I went backwards taking mine again. Now I’m still cutting down but much more slowly. I note that someone above said 6 months or a year. That sounds much more promising for me. I do think that the addiction is mental - more so than physical. Not that that makes a difference from inside the addiction.

It is progress. You're going in the right direction.

Does anything help with the anxiety/aches? like can you time it so that you feel the anxiety and aches during the day so that you can go out for a walk? Or would that be out of the question?

Op how are you doing?