Pain meds can suck a dick.
I've had 3 spinal fusions (C5-6, C6-7. and L4-5), but I still live in a 4/5 level of daily pain. It occasionally spikes to a 6/7 when I tweak it in the gym, but the baseline is constant. I literally never get a break from it. Because of it, I took Oxycodone-10 4/day...