DrugBuyers.Com: Records...how recent??

Hi all, I know I've been posting on here a lot about my experiences with anxiety disorder, but now I have a different question and was wondering if anyone could help me answer a few questions.

About 6 months ago, I injured my back in work. I had already had a pre-existing back injury that I sustained in a car accident 5 years ago. After the car accident, I was diagnosed as having "whiplash" and soft tissue damage in my lower back. The doctor I saw never ordered any kind of tests to see how severe my injuries were, he just prescribed me some prescription Motrin and some muscle relaxers and after a few days, I was feeling much better. I chose not to sue the person who rear-ended me (big mistake) because I was 25 at the time and thought that I had made a complete recovery and would never have problems with my back again. You know, the old "invincibility" assumption that most people in their 20's have. I would occasionally have back pain after that, mostly in rainy and damp weather, but nothing so painful that I couldn't handle by taking a few ibuprofen.

Well, to get to the point, when I hurt myself in work, I had to go out on Worker's Compensation for it and was finally diagnosed after they ordered an MRI for me. The report that they gave me is dated February 25, 2004. My diagnosis reads as follows:

IMPRESSION: 1) Mild to moderate degenerative disc disease at L4-5 and L5-S1.
2) Disc Protrusions at L4-5 and L5-S1 without significant canal or foraminal stenosis. The lumbar vertebrae demonstrate normal height, alignment and signal. There is mild to moderate degenerative disc disease at L4-5 and L5-S1 with disc herniation. There is loss of the disc height at L5-S1.

Now, of course, this is all greek to me, but having many family members and friends in the healthcare industry to explain what it meant helped me, somewhat. Basically, I have a permanent back injury that is probably going to only get worse over time. I was discharged from PT in June and discontinued treatment with the doctor I was seeing, and to be honest, he really didn't do much for me in the way of pain medication anyway. He dispensed Flexeril to me right out of his office and wrote me a prescription for Bextra, which did nothing for me at all. I was switched to Relafen after that, still no relief. I've always been more of an ibuprofen person, and with the anxiety meds that I take, I've always been afraid to go the hydro route.

But now, my back is killing me again. I stupidly tried to rearrange some furniture and I think I set myself back to where I was when I injured myself in work. My sister gave me a few Vicodin back when I injured my back in work, because I was so insanely in pain at the time that I would have been willing to try anything at that point. Of course, I laid off the anxiety meds when I took them, like I said, I'm scared to death to mix that kind of stuff together. But the Vicodin helped...a lot. I didn't build a tolerance to it, mostly because I didn't take it long enough, I guess.

So, my question is, if I were to say, order some Vicodin or Norco off NWW or one of the other records OP's to keep around in case my back starts acting up, how recent do your records have to be, what diagnosis do you have to have, and do you have to prove that it's been prescribed to you before? Which is the best site to order from? I'm completely clueless when it comes to this. And also, if I were to order, which is the best brand? My sister swears by Norco 10/325's, but I had to break those in half when I took them. A friend suggested Vicodin 7.5's. Thanks in advance to all that respond!!

~Eeyore

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~ R.I.P. Darrell Abbott 12/08/04