Hi and welcome to this informative and supportive group. So sorry to hear of all the misery you live in due to that horrible auto accident. I live with bodywide OA and a messed up hip replacement in 2010, and I'm much older, and I keep working to keep walking. So much of life is not fair, but things happen and so much out of our control....I thank goodness have good memories of my early life. Hope we can help somehow.

PS: I sound so much like a downer at this point in my life, and it's because pain is a downer. I don't want to take tons of pain meds and get loopier etc, so I manage and prioritize my life for my needs. We are all at our places in life.