Had my 1st appt. with pain management. I have 2 herniated disc (neck and back). I also have hepatitic C. My PCP has been treating me for the past 18 months. At present, I am up to 8 Lortab 10/500mg. a day. PCP never would change the directions on the bottle, but he would refill it every time I called him. Plus, I told him how many I was taking. He said we would contine to do it that way. WOW! The only conclusion that i can draw is that he thought he would get in trouble because of the hepatitis C. IDK!!! Now I'm in pain management after saving for months for this expensive visit. I was prescribed Embeda 20mg 2xday and Hydrocodone 10/325 4xday. NOBODY has this Embeda in stock. They have to order it. So now, I'll have to decrease the amount by half of what i was taking. The 8 Lortab 10mg. a day wasn't really helping. I'm afraid my PCP has made me appear a total drug seeker. My purpose in going to pain management was to get out of pain with a safe med and dose. I haven't heard the first good thing about Embeda and I'm still putting acetemenaphen into my body (liver). I was getting better care for free versus the mass money that I'm spending now, but I was killing myself. I guess they will eventually adjust my meds. Any advice out there???