@linda6101 it’s not easy to work as hard as I do on my physical self. But tell me, Linda-what are the options? I believe that life on this planet includes struggle. We all have to struggle just in different ways. I am reconciled to the fact that my life includes struggling with my physical body. I am a realist. We are all going to die one day. I hate to think about it, but with the reality of that fact, I try to figure out the best way to get there! Sometimes I am miserable sometimes I am elated sometimes I don’t think about it at all, and sometimes I am consumed by it. (my pain) I try everything. I educate myself. I take the difficult path of finding better doctors and questioning authority. I experiment with different medications I take timeouts and remember to breathe deep and just take a little walk around the block to clear my head realizing that some people can’t even do that. But they can all breathe. Everyone can breathe and learn how to stay in the moment and not let their pain overwhelm them. I utilize every tool available to me and that includes opioid by prescription. No one has ever removed the pain in my tailbone because they don’t wanna do surgery on the tailbone it didn’t bother me so much 30 years ago but now it’s every day several times a day. I’m still on very low-dose medication, but it is what controls the pain that cannot be removed from my life the best so I can live my life fully. There are other medications. I am on now for gout and for insulin resistance and for familial coronary artery disease. I have found that each of these things have had a bearingon my pain threshold and by solving these other extenuating problems. I also control my pain level better. It seems that other people can’t figure that out. Over 20 years ago I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I didn’t believe the diagnosis. it has something to do with my nerves, getting excited and dysfunctional communicating throughout my body. It made my pain threshold a lot worse. Once I figure it out that my inflammatory reactions were caused by something else I could control the fibromyalgia better. The doctors don’t really help you when you have overlapping and complicated things. 30 years later I am figuring out that inflammatory reactions which take place in my body cause most of the other havoc I have to be careful what I eat so I don’t get inflammatory reactions. I have to make sure I include exercise, even if I hate it because it keeps the circulation going. And just recently with no help from the doctors I figured out that I need to keep a much higher level of iron and B12 by supplementation (I’ve already been injecting B12 for years by prescription.) I now eat an egg or two every day to get both the iron and the B vitamins and the other nutrition my body does not seem to digest well anymore at 68. That got rid of my neuropathy!!! With no help from my doctors. I don’t know if other people pay as much attention to their body. I read books I do research I go down wrong rabbit holes of causation, but in the end I want to live my life fully for as many years as I have left on this planet, and that is my guiding light. I apologize in advance for the long message. I also apologize for not rereading it and fixing the typos.