Yeah, I can relate! After my last spinal fusion w/rods & pedicle screws, the fourth spinal fusion, my surgeon decided I was "cured", and ready suddenly to return to work full time, after he kept me off for 7 months, because he was scared to death it wouldn't hold! Now, I could have returned to work full time, and NEEDED to return to work full time, I just needed adequate pain managment. He referred me back to my brand new PCP, who agreed to continue prescribing vicodin, 5 mg 60 per month, which would have worked ok if I could stay at home and lie around all day! But, I had to go back to work. The PCP after about a month decided I needed to be "weaned" from my meds, when I refused and told him I needed a Pain Management referral, he said ok, made an appointment, 4 weeks later and refused to prescribe anything other than 30 5mg vicodin! So, I'm now working full time(since the surgeon released me, I had to if I wanted to keep my house), I go to the emergency room, where they had ALL my medical records, from tons of caudal injections and 2 MRI's and where I had 2 surgeries! Same thing happened to me, the doc actually told me I was a "drug seeker" and refused to prescribe for me. I ended up going to another ER in town and the doc told me they were neanderthals, and graciously prescribed 60 percocet to get me thru to the PM referral. Then the pain management doc got a call from my PCP, who got a call from the ER doc & the pain managmemnt doc said he didn't think he could "help me". I ended up suicidal, and my best friend in a town 400 miles away got me in to see her pain management doc there, (who I still fly to see, every 4 months!) I still should report the er doc!