Lordwood, somehow we do make it to the next moment. when i think of some of the pain i have delt with i am astonished i have made it. there i no way to describe it. I fell asleep in my wheel chair last week for 4 or 5 hours. I slouched to the right. the pain in my right arm from pressing on the metal arm of the wheel chair was shocking- way beyond a 10 it was a 100. How I llifted myself through that pain I will never know- I still have a large ball in my right arm and can barly touch the spot- thats called something in rsd- hyperglasia or something. no one but one of us will ever understand the depths of pain we go to. Do hang in there some how we do make it. I have anyway and I am astonded each day that I have. A new med has helped me Opana er, have you tried it? I take 40mg am and pm and of course many breakthrough meds through the day. but it is the best base line med I have been on. hang in there. CZ