Yep, the depression can be worse than the physical pain. In terms of medication, what works for one person can be horribly for someone else. Sounds like you have a good reason to be depressed; what pain meds are you on? Are they helping YOU or just making the medical people happy? Thanks to the DEA, docs are very reluctant to prescribe anything that gets rid of the pain, and prefer to put people through hoops that do little or nothing to make life easier.