> This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain. Do you have severe, chronic long-term pa

> This works for short periods of pain (such as immediately after surgery) but is very bad for chronic long term pain. Do you have severe, chronic long-term pain?* Just curious on what basis you are making this remark. I can tell you that since the DEA crackdown, no one is handing our narcotic painkillers for any condition that could be reasonably treated with rest and tylenol. Doctors value their licenses and freedom far too much, and so meticulously document their narcotic treatments, and give them only to patients with severe pain (and even then, they undertreat). I've had two relatives die from cancer from in the past 5 years, who were terminal and over 70, and yet who were cruelly denied narcotic pain relief until their last week because doctors are scared shitless about getting arrested by the DEA. Far from what you're claiming (which was maybe the case with certain doctors a decade ago), doctors now undertreat most patients. * "Bad back" and "aching knee" do not count. I mean things like cancer and severe nerve diseases. Edit: By the way, I didn't downvote you.