@GlutamateTheory "I've used both for treatment resistant severe anxiety. It feels like chronic pain but it's not". WELL, IT COULD EASILY BE FYBRO, WHEN ANXIETY FEELS LIKE CHRONIC PAIN - IN FACT, IT OFTEN IS. My anxiety comes along with some atypical neuropathy, and colon/intestine disorders, and other issues as well, hence the diagnosis of fybro. As a former heroin/bupe addict, i've been directly put on oxycodone and, boy, as long as they haven't raised my dosage to an embarassing level, i kept on relapsing in heroin and bupe, getting hydromorphone and methadone as well sometimes, and the relatively weak but SO LOVELY DHC. Anxiety causes pain, not only on a mental level, with time it becomes actually pain, and we could say that a condition of chronic pain will cause anxiety as well: in my country we have a proverb that says "the dog bites its tail", and i have an impression that said proverb does exists in other countries as well. And fybro and anxiety fuelling each other are just the case of the dog that bites its tail. So thank your doc(s), and i thank mine, 'cos they've been sensitive enough to understand that sometimes there is no difference between mental and physical pain. And nowadays, with the global cliamate of stigma and terror on drugs, it's not something that you can take for granted. I'M NOT BY ANY MEANS SUGGESTING THAT IT'S COOL TO BE DEPENDING ON ADDICTIVE MOLECULES, BE THEM OPIOIDS, PSYCHMEDS OF KIND, GABAPENTINOIDS, ETC., I'M JUST STATING THAT SOME OF US REALLY NEED AN OPIOID/OPIATE IN ORDER TO LIVE A NORMAL, FUNCTIONAL LIFE. You see, I also suffer from atypical depression and borderline personality, maybe in my childhood i had tourett'es and authism sympthoms as well, and it's a shame that opioids can't be prescribed as plain psychmeds. I'M ALSO CONSCIOUS THAT WHILE ON A PHYSICAL LEVEL OPIES ARE WAY MORE SAFE THAN, SAY, MOST NSAID OR LOTS OF PSYCHMEDS, NO MATTER WHAT DRUG WARMONGERS TRY TO IMPOSE AS TRUTH, SOME OF THEM CAN WORSEN OR CAUSE PATHOLOGIES, AS I AM VERY CONCERNED WITH STATING THE TRUTH ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BARRICADE. For example, i scored legal clean morphine just twice, and used it like three to five days in a row the first time and a little more than a week the second time, with breaks of one or two days, being on a dose of methadone (20 mg) that could keep wothdrawals at bay but let me feel the other opioids, and i've noticed that the golden standard of opies, while being a wonderful med, in my peculiar situation affected me in a way that risked worsening my depression, had i taken it for a longer time. DHC is a drug that i really love, i consider it to be the entheogen of opioids, but if i don't take a bit of h, methadone or oxy along with it not only i'll be dope-sick, but i'll also feel depressed like i used to before i started using opies. One last thing: please note that various psychmeds are used as an adjunctive aid in combating chronic pain, from anticonvulsivant mood stabilizers to benzos to antidepressants, even antipsychotics sometimes, and that says it all: chronic pain is better off treated also under a mental point of view, and many mental issues need to be recognized and healed as pain-causing conditions. Be well, be safe, have fun!!!...