Unless you are not on medications and the first thing the Doctor says is "lets get you off all the narcotics and then we can work on a program for resolving your pain long term with out meds". Hey look in my file, I am allergic to all the good stuff, so let's start with the program that will help with the chronic pain I have to live with for life, due to the mass of coils leaning on my brain stem from when my fabulous Mayo Doctor fixed my aneurysm. <br><br>