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I’m amazed you rang the pharmacist instead of the doctor .
Never ,ever take medicine not given as prescribed .

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I have been on DHC for a number of years, taking them every morning and evening. I decided some time ago to kick the morning one, that was bloody hard, I had some bad withdrawal symptoms...my consultant asked me why I had decided to do that. I thought he would have been impressed ..oh hum.

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Otherwise known as DF 118 ,an opiate .
No wonder it was bloody hard as you say and brought on some withdrawal symptoms ,well done ,I’m impressed even if your doctor wasn’t .

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Diclofenac? I didn’t know that. We tended to use this a bit in the military, especially on long marches
Thanks anyway

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Why? It was the pharmacist's mistake.

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I meant I’m amazed you didn’t ring the doctor to ask if you could take the medicine the pharmacist gave you.

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Zuleika darlin' I was prescribed both DF118s and Oromorph to be interspersed with one another every two hours following my hip and knee implant surgeries.

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Uncle Joe ,no problem with what you were given in hospital .
Just commenting back to Rehab’s post.

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No Zuleika darlin' not IN hospital, but after I was discharged home again.

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It's basically synthesised morphine only 1.5 times stronger; I took the dihydrocodeine accordingly.