Boy you all are gonna hate me by the time I am done. I use to be a drug seeking scum you all have a bitter hatred for. I say use to be because I have almost 2 years clean and dont seek anymore. I am sure you all know what a seeker is right? A DS is a drug addicted male or female whose sole purpose in your Er is to score narcotic pain meds. Norco, percs, oxy, trams and so on. There are 2 different kinds, your basic DS who comes in in withdrawal sweating and sneezing and miserable. They dont care about no one else but themselves. They will say they have CP to try to get in first. Then there are professional seekers they dress nice. Those are the ones who divert. They are usually quite patient and wait their turn. I was the first on the list. My usual ploy was back pain or a migraine. DS will complain of things that can't be found on an x-ray or test. Abdominal pain, headaches, back pain and tooth aches. I have run into a few DS while I was seeking. Someone who had a splinter who wanted a perc. Someone who was going Er to Er for a tooth ache get busted. We are the losers who ruin it for those with real pain. Withdrawal pushes people into doing whatever they have too to get their doc. Its sad and I hated myself everytime I did it. Today my PCP asks me for the symptoms of withdrawal and the signs of an addict/seeker. I am open and honest about it. People in withdrawal will have flu symptoms without fever. Sweating, nausea, anxiety, the shakes, hot and cold flashes. The sweating is profuse, high BP, high heart rate. But those symptoms in and of themselves dont mean someone is an addict. I still feel quite guilty. I am no longer a seeker I am clean.