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Asked for female, 33 years old from Siliguri
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PDDM, MHA, MBBS

General Physician•Nashik
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Hello,
Thanks for your query.
I appreciate your efforts for medical consultation in so much distress.
Codeine is an opioid compound which causes feeling of wellbeing and it is responsible for corex addiction. Opioid are highly addictive substance. It lead to psychological and physical dependence on it. Sudden stoppage of codeine lead to severe withdrawal like anxiety, lack of sleep, diarrhea and body ache etc. Which make it impossible to leave corex without help. Apart from that pati...more
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MBBS, DPM

Psychiatrist•Bangalore
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Dear Sanket,
Good that you have withdrawn from all addicting drugs. It will cause withdrawal symptoms that needs treatment for few weeks. Please consult your doctor for alternative to all these symptoms. Please continue to motivate yourself for withdrawal of all drugs. All the best.
Asked for male, 25 years old from Srinagar
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M.B.B.S, MD - Psychiatry

Psychiatrist•Ghaziabad
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it's really difficult to get rid of poly substance use, so I praise your courage to come out of it and leading a sober life. On the other side, it's pertinent for you to understand that substance use disorder is a chronic relapsing illness so the efforts to sustain sobriety should be persistent as it's a long jouney to cope up and tackle "protracted withdrawal" symptoms and craving which gradually weans off with time and might take 6 months to an year to resolve completely. It's in your b...more
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MBBS Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o...read more

Psychiatrist•Kolhapur
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Sir for ibs, there has been a lot of literature with regards to this and in association with stress and with use of pre-pro biotics.
Please consult with your doctor / psychiatrists about regular use of sertraline or mirtazepine which is shown to be beneficial in ibs along with use of pre and pro biotic compounds.
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Asked for male, 38 years old from Moradabad
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Hi, I want to discuss the problem of my younger brother, who is 33 years old. He z suffering from very serious problem from 4-5 yrs. He didn't share his problem with anyone but he  thinks everyday, to get rid from that. I came to know about this in last year, when some guy frm his college office calls me, where he works as lecturer frm 4-5 yrs. He told me that your brother is addicted to drugs in Cough Syrup form (COREX) - which contains  [chlorpheniramine MALEATE AND CODEINE PHOSPHATE] daily 2-3 bottles of {100 ML} from 3-4 yrs. I get very much worried tht he is wasting all things his life, his health, money and does not interact with anyone, and always sleep in full day and wake up on every night. His body always keep on sweating and every time his hands starts shivering, and feels embarrassment frm thz situation ,specially when some one points him. He was brilliant in studies, but now days he has loose his all confidence and get lost in his mind only and start thinking that, every one makes fun of him and get conscious every time, to overcome this  thing, he starts ignoring every one and starts living alone. Everyday I make him realize tht he z spoiling his life, his wife and his small daughter life which is just 3 yrs. Old. Every day he promise me tht frm now he will leave thz habit completely. But I guess due to addiction frm many yrs. He can't leave now, if he wants thn also, even he knows the results, but he z unable to leave thz even ,for one day also. He z spoiling his full family life. So, can you help me out for making his life frm meaning less to meaning full for his life. Is there is any cure (medicine) which (by not telling him) about treatment, so that he totally turns his face from that. I am really worried for him. As he is good guy and my only brother. Waiting for your answer  eagerly till he gets well. Thanks.

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M B B S, M. D (Internal Medicine)

General Physician•Nellore
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The effect of sleeping all day is due to codeine which is a sedative. Even Chlorpheniramine is sedating. Cough syrup addiction is a common outlet for depressed college students who did not have means of getting hard drugs.
I notice that you are a doctor. I am surprised that you did not notice the behavioural changes. Drug addiction is usually a result of psychiatric illness. Instead of consulting a professional due to stigma, they tend to go for whichever is accessible to relieve their depre...more
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Endocrinologist•Vellore
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Dear lybrate-user,
check the small print on tossex and see if it contains codeine and chlorpheniramine maleate. If it contains codeine, and if your mother is sued to taking it for many years she may be addicted to the codeine component and it will be difficult to stop it. Codeine is a narcotic drug and can cause chronic constipation
there is something called tossex new which does not seem to contain codeine you can try changing over to that
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Hi, I need to get something off my mind so I thought you could help me. A while ago I donated blood in the morning after having taken a painkiller the night before. The painkiller contained 250 mg of paracetamol and 10 mg of codeine. I told the doctor I had taken it, but I said I had taken it 3 days earlier since I didn't want to get rejected and I thought that, because of substance dilution in the blood, the fact that at least three or even four elimination half-lives had passed, the amount of medication present in the donated blood was negligible. I thought this because I am a pretty large guy, I am 25, I am roughly 6 feet tall (183 cm) and I have roughly 202 pound (92 kg-93 kg). Consequently I thought that, since I probably have around 5700 ml of blood and blood donation is only 450 ml, that the substance would be more than diluted in my body. The doctor wrote down that there could still be some paracetamol present in my blood and she let me donate. Nonetheless, I am now really worried that because of my stupidity and recklessness, my blood might have hurt someone. My biggest concern is that, the amount of codeine that was still present in my blood, as tiny as it might have been, might have interfered with the platelet function in my blood and that these "broken" platelets may have hurt someone in some way. I am not sure if this is true, but I did read that codeine has this effect. Is there any reason for me to worry? Thanks in advance.

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Sexologist•Sri Ganganagar
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No worries. Don't panic. Paracetamol plain is safe. It doesn't have side effects as such broken platelets & all.
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