I am new to this and don't know where to start. I had foot surgery in Nov 2009. When I woke up from surgery, I had this horrible pain from my foot to the back of my left knee.(never had pain there before) Went in for severe bunion surgery. I was told it could have been nerve damage. Went to pain management where they gave me 2 injections in my spine....tried me on gabapentin, nortryptiine, the usual hydrocodone and oxycodone..which i am currently out of...lyrica (which made my ears ring and stopped taking it) etc. etc. now that I am out of my pain meds and stopped going to the dr. I don't know what to do because I am such pain and I know they will think I am an addict that is why I stopped going....I found some gabapentin (that didn't work the first two times) nortryptiline (which also didn't work) and lyrica (which made my ears ring so bad I stopped after two weeks). So I took a nortryptiline and a gabapentin but scared to death to try a Lyrica. Has anyone else had this problem and what do I do...it has affected my whole life because I have a lot of responsibilies and when I am pain I am 0 percent effective and it is starting to effect my family....do I go to a new dr and say "hey somebody messed me up and I need fixed" or what???????