Stacey,

These type of medications take time to build up in your system to work efficiently. The first night's relief was probably because your body was not used to such a drug, so reacted more than last night.

Don't give up yet. Give the medication about four or five days, then you should see a more typical example of what pain relief, if any, you can expect.

I'm probably looking at living with this pain for about 40 years too. I agree with en bloc.... Why suffer now when in 20yrs time these few months you are putting it off will feel like a drop in the ocean, irrelevant.

I live on organically grown foods and use Earth friendly products. I hate knowing I'm poisoning my body with these drugs that I'm obviously reliant on (addicted to) by now. But, the only other option is to live in severe pain.

Think about the STRESS your body is going through being in pain. That stress is taking its toll, constantly! Your heart, blood pressure, etc. are struggling under the pressure of the pain.

If you can control that pain, your body will be able to come back into balance. I've seen it with my blood pressure.

I guess what I'm saying is, you are damned if you do, but you are equally damned if you don't. You are not helping your body by letting it live in a state of pain.

So, isn't it better to be damned and relatively pain free?

That is how I came to decide. Ohh and also, I believe that in the next decade or two they will find a much much better way to treat cronic pain. Actually, I think it's less than a decade. So, I don't believe we will be on these highly addictive drugs for the next 40 years.

Hoping you find the relief I did, and so many others too. I sleep 5 hours every night. You will too.