Getting your adrenal hormones tested (pregnenolone, cortisol, testosterone for starters). The adrenal hormones have a lot to do with pain & stress, and how (well) we handle them.

Testosterone? For women? YES. Women make, and need, testosterone too - just in much smaller quantities, and being too low in it can definitely effect how you perceive & deal with pain.
http://www.practicalpainmanagement.c...-pain-patients

Both longterm chronic pain and opioid medications can deplete and suppress these adrenal hormones, and pain, left untreated, can have even more dire consequences.
Google: effects of untreated intractable pain

I don't ask that anyone take my word for this. Check into it. Talk to your doctors. I've posted the pertinent article links here:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread156416.html
(To skip the off-topic posts, just read the first and any I posted that are titled Update)

This therapy is working so well for me I want to scream it from the rooftops! It is not a cure-all nor does it end pain, but it can make the pain and coping with it much easier by up to 1/2. Some patients have been able to decrease their medications by up to that amount, but realistically, I think it would be better to expect less and take what comes.

"You can learn to live with it" and "You’ll just have to tough it out" are two of the phrases NOT to say to peoople in chronic pain.
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post840028-5.html

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