As for as peeing in a cup, to make sure you don't take more of your pain meds at anytime than what you are prescribed to take, also.

Actually you have Medicare to thank for medical records going electronic. They are the ones who pushed & pushed for this to be the way it is. They are the ones behind HIPPA also so that medical records could go electronic. That is the only way they will accept claims now from what I understand. They will not accept written or typed claim forms that are mailed in. They have to sent electronically.

I am really really lucky, seeing as how I live in California & they are so strict on DEA crap here. I don't have to pee in a cup every month. In fact I have only had to do that twice in 6 yrs. I have never given them one reason to ever suspect that I am a drug seeker. But then I have not had to have my pain meds, opiates, increased since 2005 when we reached the dose that finally contained my pain to atleast about a 4 to 6. Sometimes my pain has gone down as low as a 1 to 2 & those days I relish & even think, WOW if I could have every day like that maybe, just maybe I could back to my old job at the county I work in. Then of course reality bites me back again & the next day I am back in the 4 to 6 pain zone. *sighing* One can always dream I guess. Right?

DebbyV