promethazine-Codeine Syrup(prescription cough Syrup)

Unfortunately, this now has a label on it which delineates it as an Opioid.

I already have had serious issues about codeine simply because my father was on a codeine pain killer as he was dying of bone cancer to kill the pain before he died.

BUT, my father started hallucinating because of the codeine and shooting a "Bad Guy" in the wall and my mother being born in 1919 was so traditional she wouldn't take away my father's guns. So, I had to drive 600 miles to go take away my father's guns before he accidentally shot my Mom or his big German Shepard Dog, King. This was in 1985 the year my father passed away a few months before his passing. I was 37 years of age and married raising 3 kids in Mt. Shasta then and my father and mother were retired and lived near Yucca Valley up on Yucca Mesa halfway between Yucca Valley and Landers on 2 1/2 acres in a house that my father and I and mother and friends built between 1968 and 1980 on weekends there. I was 20 when my father bought the completely undeveloped 2 1/2 acres then in 1968. My favorite thing to do there was to ride one of my off road motorcycles for miles down dry washes and over amazing dirt roads there then. That was when my sense of freedom really got developed doing this and led me eventually to becoming a world traveler.

So, when I think of codeine I naturally think of one of the most horrific experiences in my life, "Talking to my father about the man he shot in the wall in his bedroom. I counted 5 bullet holes there that I filled with spackle (plaster then) before I left to return to my family in Mt. Shasta.

So, because I have been coughing a lot and because my wife didn't want to sleep in the guest room for some reason I have been keeping her awake nights some (even though if it gets really bad I go out into the living room at times especially between midnight and 6 am so she can sleep peacefully.

So, yesterday my doctor got me a new prescription of promethazine-Codeine Syrup(prescription cough Syrup)

I really don't like to hallucinate because I'm 6 foot 5 inches tall and very very strong compared to most people. My father took me aside the year I was 12 and grew from 5 foot 2 to 5 foot 10 and told me. "Freddie, you are so big and so strong you have to be the adult in the room at all times now. If you aren't the ONLY adult in the room you are going to kill someone because no one will be strong enough to stop you if they anger you. You cannot let anyone anger you now, you are just too big and too strong!"

By the way my Dad's older brother was 6 foot 6 inches tall (the oldest boy in my Dad's Family) so my Dad knew something about this. And my Dad was 6 foot 2 1/2 inches tall and two of my male cousins are or were 6 foot 2 to 6 foot 3 as well.

So, I don't want to be hallucinating and hurt anyone. This is my point of view. So, Codeine scares me a lot to begin with, especially after what happened with my DAD.

Then, here is the label on the cough Syrup: "Opioid: Risk of overdose and addiction".

This didn't make me happy either.

And then my wife laid into me because I hadn't done a teaspoon of it at about 5 am this morning and we both got pretty mad at each other. We are fine now but I'm just not going to take Codeine Cough syrup unless I'm dying of coughing or something. It's just too crazy for me. She's not me. I'm my own person!