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Welcome aboard Pinkolive!!!!!

I am really sorry to hear about your recurring kidney stones. I have never had one but people say that it is among the strongest pain you can feel. From reading your post, I can opined that you are certainly abusing your medication. However, I am not convinced that you are "addicted" (I'm sure some here may disagree with me). At least not yet. How long have you been taking percs? How much time do you have between kidney stone episodes? Do you stop taking it when you don't have stone issues? The fact that you don't get WD is somewhat puzzling. I first tried percs a couple of years ago when I got my hands on a 90 pill bottle, after a month I stop and I got noticiable physical WD symptoms. However, I was able to move on and never really craved them. Although after that I never minded popping a couple just to get that "unplugged" feeling.

My advice is that you talk to your doctor and tell him to prescribe other painkillers with less abusive potential.