Co Codamol

I used to use co proximal. It was much better than co codamol. I use paracetamol and amytryptolline as well. I find the most useful thing is volt arol emugel which I use on my ankle. I suspect I've algodystrophy of the ankle as it's unreasonably painful.

For many years I used Arthrotec which combined Diclofenac with Misoprostol to prevent damage to stomach. However, for the past 2.5 years on prednisolone I haven't been allowed to take any anti-inflammatories. On the higher steroid dose, I felt great, because it dealt with arthritic joints as well as the polymyalgia, but as the dosage has been gradually reduced, so the joints have begun to complain again. Can't b****y well win.

Someone told me that Codein turns to morpine in the blood which is why it is such a good pain killer. I was prescribed it for a slipped disc but felt sick and dizzy at the beginning but was able to go back to paracetamol later as the pain receded. While taking it, it controlled the pain and I lost a lot of weight through not eating but thankfully it passed over- as most slipped dics pain does evenually go away after 4 months.
I don't know what is in this Co Codamol, but imagine it is the same as the German drug of a similar name. Or does it have Cortison in it?

I have Meloxicam for ankolosing spondylitis. It works very well and after years of being on all sorts of differing medication it made such a change in my life to have a drug that works. I still have problems if not careful but on the whole it's great. Flare ups are treated with acupuncture. I can't take any other neurogenic based drugs so have paracetamol only if dire need.

Co-codamol is, as its name suggests, a combination of codeine and paracetamol.

Reading this thread I have enormous sympathy for you all. I have aDH who has been having a painful time recently. But is there some dark room with people with ice packs on their heads thinking up these unpronounceable and unspeakable names? Is there no way they can be made simpler?

Co-codamol (the codiene part) can be addictive. It's wrong to state categorically that it is addictive.

I'm not sure it changes into morphine in the blood but it is supposed to act in the same way. As galen says, co-proxamol, which actually contained an opium-derived painkiller, was much more effective. Co-codamol 8/500 is supposed to be the equivalent in painkilling properties of co-proxamol. It isn't. galen and I speak from experience.

Spot on thatbags, about the pain killing properties of coproxamol. My GP was sorry she wasn't able to prescribe it after its use in some suicides.

DH tries high dose co-codamol now and again but can't take it much because of the constipation. I tried it when I had a bad back but couldn't take it at all. I can't take morphine and the co-codamol made me feel just as sick.