My family continually worry about the amount of pain killers i'm on, i take the maximum dose almost every day. What they don't understand is that without then I can't even toilet myself without crying with the pain, I don't take them for fun. I do worry about liver damage and the risk of server hemoraging of the stomach but it's about the lesser of 2 evils. Don't be too tough on yourself we have a genuine reason for having to take these highly addictive drugs