I'm not assuming I'm aware of how your pain effects you, but am interested in why you have taken my post personally
Your speak with great authority about the future - other methods will not work "ever" and you will "always" need opiates etc - got next weeks lottery numbers too?
I realise your statements are based on extreme circumstance, a highly-educated guess if you like
However, the invitation is to keep the possibility of change/healing open and not help to close it further with self-debilitating self-talk and rigid ideas about what we 'know' will be the situation in future. Anything can, does, and will happen!
I'm a chronic pain patient too if that's important, I also take opiates for relief sometimes
Pain's a fucking bitch eh...an interesting one though