It is true that there are more restrictions on other stronger narcotics, like Oxycontin and Morophine Sulfate, but plain old Hydrocodone is the most prescribed medication in the U.S. Every E.R. Doc in the country writes codone and codeine scripts everyday. I'm sorry Rush Limbaugh got addicted to Loratabs, but he ain't me! I have my original script from last August and I did have it filled one time, because my med deductable starts over in October, but I counted the pills last night and I still have not taken the original 30 pills from the first script. And that is with all the pain, both emotional and physical I've suffered over the last 9 months. I like to bowl. It is the only pleasure I have in life at this point, the only time I can actually get away from everything and just have fun. Some weeks I am hurting so bad that I absolutely cannot bowl, and it is then that I take a Loratab. I actually feel normal for two maybe three hours, then I pay for the transgression all night because the Loratabs make me itch like I've been rolling in poison ivy. But I do it so I don't have to give up bowling. It means that much to me. So for somebody who doesn't even know me to make assumptions about me based on the fact that I have a prescription, well, it just ticks me off royally. I have decided to go through with the appointment, if for no other reason than to tell the doctor about how rude his nurse was, and if it is, indeed, his policy, to tell him off as well!
Johnny
