Am I nearly there beating dihydrocodeine addiction?

You really should have tapered your dose down by splitting your tablets with a pill cutter. Quitting any narcotic cold turkey is an extremely miserable anxious process, with side effects of mive diarrhea, cramps, chills, clamminess and overall nausea. The individual symptoms can be treated, but would have been best had you weaned down, in fact almost life threatening to go cold turkey. Valium or Klonipin for the Anxiety and miserableness, tapered down. Tylenol for the chills and clamminess, and pepto-bismol for the cramps,diarrhea and nausea. Remember to drink lots of fluids and your symptoms should improve within about five days. Don't forget to eat small amounts of food, chicken noodle soup works good.