I too am sometimes undermedicated so I appreciate your position.

I never see black and white on issues-it'called getting older and wiser.

It would be nice that you could be totally honest with your doctor and he felt that you did need the medication and that some days you had more pain than others and give soem type of 'break through'medication some people on these boards get.

People that have chronic, documented pain and not those that just like to party with the drugs find it increasingly frustrated.
The 'newspapers' like US Today are one notch above a tabloid. Yet they can find room in thier rag for ways to order controlled drugs without a 'real' prescription or report the death of one person too stupid enough to take pain killers and is too impared to drive and wrecks his car and a relative sues the doctor who prescribed the drugs. Why doesn't this relitive sue the state or federal government who built the highway or street, the car maker, and the endless things while they are it. Why doesn't these fluff jobs do a real news story about the day in the life of a real chronic pain patient. I would volunteer.

Ever watch the movie with Nick Nolte, called I beleive 'North Dallas 40' where nolte's character is trying get out of bed after playing a football game the day before? That is me a lot of times in the morning.

Pain is this decades new 4 letter word-actaully it started last decade but probably before then. It can cause suicides, depression, break up marriages, lead to jail and the list is too long to mention.

I am not condeming oP's and if they are honest, then I am glad they are there. It just seems that they require as much work to get medications as going to a local doctor. But if the OP is legitimate, then won't they call your primary doctor at some point? Your primary doctor will then know that you are 'double dipping'.
A lot of people on this and other pain boards are legitmate. A lot are law enforcement types, and a lot are just drug users.

I tend to write controversal posts with bad spelling because I have too much time on my hand since I am disabled. I stay with these boards because I learn something all the time or I might know an answer to someone'sw question or at least offer an honest opinion.

I do not see anything wrong with using an OP to suppliment what your doctor gives you if you can afford it and your doctor truly is conserative in his or her pain appoarch. But again the double dipping issue will arise unless you use the less reptuable OPs or and IOP.

I just get aggrivated with people with legitimate pain that continues get lumped and ultimately punished because some junkie finds a doctor and cons him into narcotics, dies and the media is all over it.

Why don't they cover the life of people that have a need for the drugs. It's like kicking a diabetic because they take insulin.