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Good to hear that you beat your addiction. Johnny Cash beat his long addiction to pain killers and refused to take them in his later years even though it meant enduring much pain; he didn't want to have to fight that addiction again.

I only took painkillers for back pain (from a car accident) for a few days. They made me sluggish and clouded my mind. Even after just a few days I had painful muscle spasms in muscles that had not been experiencing pain; I attributed this to withdrawl. When I took the medication, those spasms subsided (these were muscle relaxers). I toughed it out for a few days (including some painful spasms that would wake me up in the middle of the night). If it was that bad after just a few days of use, I didn't want to have to contend with a more intense withdrawl.

After taking pain killers for three years, my withdrawl process really, really su*ked.

About a year ago, I had a particulary bad gall bladder attack for which my doc perscribed a similiar narcotic for the pain. I was very surprised (and very thankful!) to find that for some reason, I am no longer able to tolerate this type of drug; the extreme vomiting and nausea I had at that time were simply unbearable.