He may be understanding until he sees just how much all of this costs, consult and all! My wife freaked out when she found out how much a consult and meds costs. She doesn't believe in taking meds for anything and she has scoliosis and terrible back pain. The worst thing was that she told her mom and MY mom. Now they both think that I am a pill addict just because I get a prescription through the mail. That's not the kind of thing that you want YOUR MOTHER-IN LAW to know! My relationship with her was kind of weird in the first place, now I don't want to even go over to her house any more. In my opinion, the less people that know about my using OP's the better. People just don't understand what it's like to be in constant pain and not get proper treatment from local doctor's. I mean, if my local doc's had treated me right in the first place, I wouldn't have tried to get a script from a web-site. But the media has made prescription drugs, particularily pain killers, into the devil. All of us here know that there is nothing mystical about hydrocodone. It is not a magic wonder pill that makes you high. In my opinion, pain killers pale in comparison to alcohol in their intoxicating effects. And then, once tolerance sets in, forget about it. Even if I swallowed five hydros at one time, I could still get a better buzz from one beer (which I don't even drink). That's why I am glad that there is a place like DB for us like people to come and express our many feelings. It's too bad that our closest friends and family (for the majority of us) don't understand what it's like for us to be in chronic pain and have to resort to using OP's just to be able to function from day to day. Take care all!