I question of percocet/oxyxodone. Serious responses only.?!

I question of percocet/oxyxodone. Serious responses only.?

I'm 42-years of age, and dealt with lower back pain for a very long time. For about two months, I used short term treatment with pain medications alternating between Percocet and Lortab. Finally, the pain got so bad that I started taking long term Percocet and I can't say enough about the drug or the treatment and I don't abuse the drug(s) at all. The pain is now under complete control. The problem is this: The doctor made a comment that he wanted to reduce and/or eliminate the oxycodone from the mix and I honestly objected. I mean, my pain is under better control than it's ever been. Why should it matter that after several months my dose is up to 70 mg? So my question after all of this is this. Should I have to deal with a return of the agonizing pain I was in just for the sake that Percocet/Oxyxodone is addictive, or should I advocate for myself and find a pain doctor to prescribe the combination long term? Serious responses only.

FIND A PAIN DOCTOR!!!!! I cannot say this loudly enough or too many times. I was almost EXACTLY where you are... I spent the last two years in AGONY, with docs putting me on pain meds that worked for a short period of time and then snatching them away. Finally, they found out the reason for my pain (pelvic congestion syndrome, a common but difficult to diagnose disorder or the uterus), and the doc put me on Percocet but treated me like a junkie even though I was taking it VERY sparingly. Finally he said my only option was a pain clinic. I have been in Pain management for the last year and I have NEVER felt better. (Pain management docs will likely put you on oxycontin because of the extended release, btw). Narcotics are the oldest and safest form of pain management... the only real danger is dependence (VERY VERY VERY different from addiction, which is a behavioral issue and does NOT result from taking the medication long term). As my pain doc put it to me, "You don't have to be in pain. It's your right to live a normal life free of discomfort when you can be treated with medications. As long as you are taking them properly [and pain clinics make sure you are, you're drug tested out the wazoo for other meds and have to sign a contract stating other rules you have to follow or you get dismissed from the practice], you will not become an addict."