I'm now 24 hours with no codeine!
I flushed what I had left, last night; I wanted to hang on to them sooo badly, but I know if I did, I would have been dipping in for "just one or two" to take the edge off.
Some of my withdrawals got underway when I started to taper off; as of now, my bones hurt, which is pretty bad, since I've had arthritis since childhood. I'm hitting the Immodium, but not as much as I expected. TMI, but a side-effect that I wasn't expecting was peeing every 20 minutes - I think my kidneys are excited to get rid of all of the stuff I was taking lol! The nausea is something I wasn't prepared for. I haven't thrown up, but I'm living on Gravol.
Emotionally, I'm good and bad. I have times when I'm depressed and miserable, and times when I'm giddy to have taken such a step. I feel very lonely, since I can't get online except for late at night. I'm very glad that my dealer moved across town, since I know I wouldn't be able to resist anything he might have, codeine pills (50 mg pure codeine, evil little buggers that I devoured when I could get them), Percocet, whatever. I have plans to get counseling, but right now, looking at life through clean eyes kinda sucks at times.
I'm going to pick up some milk thistle this week. I've also used alternative and Chinese medicine for years, and there are various remedies to detoxify the liver and other areas, which I'm doing as much as I can. If anyone is interested in the Chinese medicine part, a Google search of "traditional Chinese medicine" + liver (or any other area) should turn up a fair bit of info. Black cohosh (herb) gets things "warmed up" and flowing in the liver, so I've been taking that, I need to get to the store for other herbs that I'm out of.