Hi... Let me bring you to how I got to this point...I will be brief. I am 33 female, married and a mother to three children 11 and younger. At 31 I was diagnosed with stage 3c breast cancer that had matasized to my lymph nodes. I in the last 2 years have had 6 months of chemo, 32 rounds of radiation, 9 surgeries and numerous other treatments and medications. So I have been taking Norco 10/325 for this past two years as you can imagine I have a lot of pain. Now I take 4-5 pills a day.... and I know from reading a lot of posts on here that 4-5 pills a day isnt that much, as there are some who take 15-30 pills a day. But my problem is this... I am afraid that I am addicted now....if I don't take them I feel really bad, have no energy, irritable, cranky, my body aches all over....so am I hurting and all this because I am REALLY HURTING or because I AM ADDICTED???? CHemo did major liver damage on me and now my liver is the size of a severly obese persons liver...it functions properly right now just very very large....I don't want to make things worse by taking this norco. I also don't want to be addicted to this....I already have to take ambien to sleep...and I am okay with that as its not damaging to my liver. I take wellbutrin as my antidepressant....and some other medications aimed at trying to help me stay cancer free. Again I am only 33 years old...and God willing I have many years left to be a wife, to be a mother, to just be me. For the time being and I pray forever, I am cancer free and I don't want to worry about liver failure....so any thoughts or suggestions would be great. I don't nor never have tried to switch Doctors to obtain meds, I have never tried to get prescriptions before they were due, I have ran out a couple days sooner than I should have but only by a 3-5 days. Am I addicted or not??? What else can I use that will rid my pain as good as norco does?? Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions...will be greatly appreciated!!!! Thank You.