I have a spinal hemangioma, several herniated discs, spinal stenosis, degenerated discs, 3 major vehicle accidents, scoliosis......and that's the tip of the iceberg. I am the most laied back happy go lucky person ever grew up a stoner with my dad. Most doctors are scared to prescribe opiates for good reason, any paitent indiscretions, selling meds, overdoses and a hundred other scenarios would result in a loss of the ability to practice medicine making themselves, big pharma, and the good ol' USA lose out on a bunch of money from buying concentrated poppy straw cheap from third world countries and chemically engineering it into "pain medication". At first all the would give me is anti depressants that helped pain, like 6 different ones......then finally hydrocodone 10/325 3 x a day which I had to pretend was enough and ask every year or so for an addition pill per day Til I eventually got oxycodone 15s 4 x a day with norcos and finally the 30mg oxy ir's after years of playing by the rules.........I actually just got dropped by my general practitioner after my grandpa died And my family saw me pop a few extra and nodding off so the flushed my shit I agreed to check into mental health. I was restabilized on my normal meds and prescribed a 5 day supply upon leaving to tie me over. Supposably I broke a contract I never signed that I wouldn't get pain meds from anybody else. I tried to call them over and over to tell them what happened they never hit me back then the hospital called bam dropped like that.....didn't even ask me what happened. Moral of the story is don't forget your a paying customer, a lot of doctors actually need to be cut off and interrupted over and over for you to even have a chance to fully explain yourself. And you at first have to go along with whatever they say.....even if you know it won't work or isn't strong enough. Especially the antidepressants because a lot take a loading phase of a week or even months to kick in. A paitent that's truely in distress would call back in a week and complain the symptoms are worse and you need to come back in. By doing this you build a rapport with the doctor and you have to learn to subcontiously play stupid and act like you don't know a lot about pain pills etc. anyone on opiates is an addict and will therefore be succepetable to drug seeking behavior, you have to learn to tune it out. Best of luck to you.