I already had suffered for over 10 years with ME/CFS after battling a very bad second Lyme Infection with multiple coinfections. I fact, I was awarded full disability for both. The ME/CFS got so bad I was ed ridden 80% of my time, and the rest I could only use very restricted activity. The pain was endless. I also had spinal stenosis and a crushed vertebrae after a total car accident. Additionally, I suffered a very severe case of Endometriosis that began round age 13. Because it was unknown then, I got no help until many years later. I still have it, but because I am post-menopausal, no doctor will operate (more and more reliable studies show that this is not the case. Then 3 years ago I got Long COVID = more ME/CFS. I am now battling Inflammatory Breast Cancer, was prescribed Letrazole and zero additional pain medicine! I was told either take the Letrazole or stop it (and die of cacer). Pain management is a joke for acute severe chronic pain. Yoga, certificate acupuncture, massage, etc, may help a little, but I do have the money for any of those things. I never heard of a Cancer Hospital not giving pain meds. Yet I am at my second opinion hospital where it came down to the same mis-treatment. I was laughed at for suggestions, never once given a single choice into my care plan, and was manhandled by an ancient GYN who was rude to boot. Is this how the poor with Medicare get treated now? Or do all patients get mistreated like this?