From Here, What Should Happen? Long One. Serious Answers Only, Please?
Question by Momma Jette: From here, what should happen? Long one. Serious answers only, please?
Last year, my fiance’s mother died. Afterwards, he had anxiety so bad that he started having migraines that escalated to ice pick migraines. He went to his doctor and was gievn 120 tylenol 3’s a month. Anyone out there that has ever dealt with codiene would know that it’s highly addictive, and 120 is enough to start that addiction. It did. That was a year and a half ago, and it’s alot worse now. He probably spends anywhere from $ 800-$ 1500 buying pills off the street in a month. He came to me last night and told me that he wanted to quit, and he asked me to call his doctor and talk to him about it and see what could be done without him having to go to rehab because he’d lose his job. I did, and his doctor said he would do nothing. HE is the one that caused this, and he said he would do NOTHING. “Sorry, I can’t help you” is what he told me. He also told him that he could not be his patient any more. He then called my fiance’s work place and reffered him to a detox center.
He CANNOT do this because he would have to stay there for 2 weeks without any communication to the outside world.
My fiance’s addiction is to the point that if he were to go a certain amount of time without having codiene in his body, that he could go into cardiac arrest or have some other sort of major organ failure. This was told to us by another doctor. Now, he hasn’t had any for almost 20 hours. He’s vomiting, shaking, seizuring and having to run to the bathroom every 5 minutes.
He cannot go into rehab. He would get fired from his job. A about a year ago, we tried a step down method over a period of two months that worked for some time. I have really bad menstural cycles and I have to take percocets for the pain. He found them, and started again. I have since then stopped taking them.
I’m not looking for people to give me lecutres or judge me here. I’m also not looking to hear that going to detox would be the only way, because I know it isn’t. I’m simply asking what you would do in our situation. Is there anything that we can do about this doctor? I’m really starting to freak out because it seems there’s no way to get out of this and I don’t want to lose the person I love most to a tiny white pill. Thanks.
Ok, I guess I forgot to add that it is oxycodone and hydrocodone that he’s into. Percocets and vicodin.
And what’s up with this nightmare thing?
To the third answer – yes he can be outright fired. He is the administrator of the largest call center in Ohio and they have a 0 drug tolerance. A co worker of his didn’t tell management that he was on vicodin for a tooth ache and they caught him taking it on the floor and fired him. He tried pursuing this with a lawyer and nothing could be done. Just figured I’d let you know.
I thought that I might get atleast one sensible answer if I did this, but I guess I was wrong. Please understand that he CANNNOT go into detox or into rehab because he WILL lose his job. I know that doesn’t sound very significant, but you’ve got to understand that I can only work at certain places because of MY medical issues. Those places don’t pay that much….certainly not enough to pay all of our bills. And if I didn’t care about him, would I have posted this?
Another thing, it is not just codeine that he is addicted to. It’s oxycodone and hydrocodone, too. I’m sorry, but with the amount of doctors and with the amount of research that I have done, I have significant proof that it IS highly addictive.
Best answer:
Answer by Doc8
Codeine is not highly addictive, not nearly as much as oxcodone and hydrocodone. In all my years of practice, I saw only one codeine addict. Get the man into rehab now.
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