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WOW!!!!  Obviously Pam does not even belong on a chronic pain site!  There is no way I could go a day let alone 2 or 3 without my pain meds, unless I wanted a trip to ER.  I can not even walk to the bathroom without pain meds, I can't even take a step.  This is not a personal problem unless I do not take the medical care I receive, if i were to not take the meds i need then it is a problem that I should seek help over.  If I were not to take the pain meds I need to have anything near a life then YES I should seek counceling because I have given up hope and lost my personal value on life!!!  I struggled alot with the fact that I have to take medicine everyday, when I first had to come to terms with it it was one of the darkest times in my life.  I don't want to have to take medicine everyday- it is hard on our livers and our bodies, but it sure beats the hell out of screaming from sheer pain!!!  And anyone who thinks we are off getting a buzz from our pain meds is not informed!  There is no buzz or high when your body needs the pain relief, your brain does what it needs to with the narcotics to relieve your pain, there is nothing left behind to leave you feeling high.  Regardless of all that and every ignorant person out there who feels like they have the right to judge us for taking medicine (it may not have a life saving appreance- but anyone who has chronic pain knows that it is life saving!  I know I would have no life quality without it) I will continue to take my prescribed pain meds every single day of my life- until a day comes where there is one final pill or one final procedure that cures my life altering pain and removes it forever!  I know we all pray for that day.