I have chronic pain in my thoracic spine that is excruciating at times and I have had it for 7 years throughout my 20's. I developed a severe addiction to opiates and am just getting clean. I started on 40mg oxy daily but my last relapse I blew through 200 pills in a week. I haven't sniffed any H since July but I had a 5 year habit of that. It completely destroyed my spirit and everything in my life. I live with the pain now, I did a lot of cleaning today and I am in agony at the moment.
My pain is extreme and I just take turmeric supplement for it, a great anti-inflammatory. I am getting medical cannabis too now and I find dabbing really helps, but I am a relatively old school stoner and like my joints best. Oxycodone, at this stage of the progression of the disease of my soul, will ruin my life in a single day. It will leave me absolutely full blown suicidal and bedridden in withdrawal for an entire week after a single day of use. The drug disgusts me, and I really think there are better ways of managing chronic pain than using that fucking garbage. Way too many people get addicted, and parents are burying their kids every day. Fucking FUCK opiates and opioids, they pretty much stole my entire 20's away.
That stuff made me retarded too after a few years. It completely stole my drive for creativity, my drive for sex, my drive for anything but the drug and I couldn't quit for so long because the withdrawals are ferocious. Chronic pain patients are particularly susceptible to opiate addiction, even over recreational users in my opinion. I am much happier since I quit even though I live with pain that makes me pass out sometimes it is so bad. My creativity is flourishing and I'm happier than ever before to be myself. A pothead and turmeric user. Really working harder than ever before on my electric guitar, which I hadn't touched practically in years because on opiates I eventually just did not give a fuck about anything at all. It took a couple years to really get me, but using that shit has been the biggest mistake of my life and my greatest regret. Had to block the fucking pharmacy from being able to give me them as I kept relapsing every prescription day. Honestly just fuck that shit, it nearly killed me so many times.
That shit just causes opioid induced hyperalgesia over time anyway. Actually increases pain over time.