Well, I can understand not telling I guess if you sig. other doesn't get it. I guess I am just lucky, but like I said; my wife saw my pain before I found online P's along with seeing me go through 2 accidents in the course of 2 yrs. which messed up my allready road worn back, along with me crushing my left leg and breaking my ribs each time so I guess it kind of made her sympathetic to the situation. I definately agree that a person has every right to pain management and if you have to keep it secret, than I guess that's the only way to do it. As far as telling other people about your meds; I definately keep it a secret for two reasons: 1) already stated by Quincy and that is the way people who don't understand look at you (I've been through that enough to keep it quiet) and 2) if my friends knew most of them would be knocking on my door all the time asking for handouts!...... "hey man, my knee is acting up, ya got anything for it?" or "oh man, these bills are really getting me down, ya got something to help me relax a little?" or even "yo bro! whatcha got in the medicine cabinet today?, I feel like getting ripped!" the first one not being so bad..... if a friend is realy hurt and I can help, I will. But I look and work to hard and spend to much to open my cabinet to anyone just looking to get high.......when it comes to that, I guess I am pretty much a bogart.