As far as the oxycodone, I’ve been lucky enough to have very transient pain at this point and not had to take anything so far. My husband, however, has severe arthritic pain in his beck and neck and has been on a high dose of oxy for many years. My goal is to make sure he gets surgery so that he would only have to take that med sporadically or something maybe like methadone as @waltsocal mentioned in his post. Please continue to let us know if your sister’s procedure is effective for her level of pain.