Codeine 20mg
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Product overview
Codeine 20mg: Dose, Combination Tablets and Safety
- Pack: 3 strips × 10 tabs = 30 tabs
- Category: Pain Relief
- Availability: Sold out
Twenty milligrams is a middling dose of codeine. It falls between the 15mg tablet and the 30mg tablet, and those are the two strengths of plain codeine most European pharmacies stock.
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When is a 20mg dose of codeine used?
Twenty milligram tablets are plain codeine, and the same amount also sits inside combination tablets. France set 20mg of codeine phosphate as the ceiling for what could be bought without a prescription, which is one reason the number is well known to anyone who purchased painkillers there before the law changed.
The three-day rule. Three days is the limit for taking codeine to treat yourself before a doctor has to be involved, and this is written on the packaging rather than being some cautious piece of advice. Pain you are still feeling on the fourth day is telling you something that a fourth day of codeine will not fix. A box holds thirty tablets, supplied as three strips of ten. That is a good deal more than the three days of self-treatment the label permits, so most of a box will still be sitting on the shelf when you should be speaking to your doctor.
Daily ceiling. The limit for an adult is 240mg of codeine in 24 hours, no matter what the strength of the tablet is. Doses go no closer together than four hours apart.
Side effects, and the one people underestimate. Constipation, drowsiness and nausea are the everyday complaints. Dependence is the one people underestimate, and it develops slowly over weeks of daily use rather than arriving suddenly.
Product details
- Pack type
- Box
- Pack size
- 3 strips × 10 tabs = 30 tabs
- Article number
- SKU-6263930
- Availability
- Sold out
- Category
- Pain Relief
Common questions
Is codeine 20mg the same as codeine phosphate 20mg?
They are the same thing, described in two different ways. Codeine phosphate is the salt the tablet is actually made from, and the number printed on the box refers to that salt. A product labelled codeine 20mg holds the same amount of the same drug as one labelled codeine phosphate 20mg.
How many codeine 20mg tablets can you take in a day?
The ceiling is 240mg of codeine in 24 hours for an adult, so twelve 20mg doses in theory. In practice nobody should ever be near that. For starters, people can only treat themselves for three days at a time, and doses have to be spaced at least four hours apart. The number is a limit, not a target.
Why was codeine made prescription-only in some countries?
Because of how it was being bought and used, well beyond its intended purpose. France moved codeine to prescription-only in July 2017 after numerous cases of young people using codeine syrup recreationally. Both Belgium and the Netherlands also require a prescription for codeine products.
