Yup. Treatment these days for chronic and severe pain amounts to your choice of: 1) Ever escalating doses of NSAIDs / acetaminophen and the associated long ter

Yup. Treatment these days for chronic and severe pain amounts to your choice of: 1) Ever escalating doses of NSAIDs / acetaminophen and the associated long term health effects of that. 2) Long term opioid management which will leave you treated like a drug seeker by anyone who isn’t your pain doctor and may or may not also require long term escalation and has its own health concerns and complicates your use of other medications. And god help you if you don’t like your pain doctor because changing them is a whole different world of suspicion and poor treatment. 3) Various physical interventions like nerve ablations or back surgery or steroid injections which come with a host of other risks and also tend to be both expensive and temporary.