Why did you go on the opiates if your pain was being controlled? I am on opiate therapy and I know it is for the long haul, likely the rest of my life, but I have hereditary neuropathy and this, together with gabapentin, works for me. They are relatively safe drugs with few side effects, and allow me to function at a much higher level than I would be able to otherwise.

Why did you give up the elavil if it was working? Couldn't it have been combined with an opiate if you were going though a bad time? If it wasn't working, it can't hurt to try it again, things change, but no one here can really tell you whether it will or it won't. We are all more or less living science fair projects, experimenting on ourselves.