thank you VabGirl.
My doctor is too strict with medications. I don't see any substitute. I do really need it for pain but it doesn't work like it used to. If I try to taper at all I really get frustrated and feel almost like lashing out at someone. I wouldn't go back and not have taken it, it did help. I guess I'll talk to the dr when I can.... but I already know he'd want me to taper off of it. He gave me meds for arthritis and doesn't diagnose me on paper as having arthritis. Sometimes i wish I had a different doctor to talk to.