@johnjustice42
I empathize with you. I love with chronic pain and miserable/depressed. I am getting spine surgery soon due to congenital stenosis/DDD/neurogenic claudication. Have you had spinal injections to help you with pain and do you take melatonin to help you sleep? Your brain does get altered with long-term pain medication. It is sad that pain doctors would abruptly drop their patients knowing how hard it is for them going off cold turkey without other alternatives made available to them. That almost seems criminal. Have you been to a clinic to help you manage withdrawal symptoms?