maybe, i have had digerrative disck disease, my wjole like, i fell off a 2 story building twice, plus multipul ectt.. u get the picture. lasyt year in dec i was worling full time had a great dr. and after he left the new guy wouldsnt talk to me, i went from 380mg ms contin and 10/325 3 times a day, why are all of the dr. so scaref to give out pain meds to thosew who need