@spcb You are absolutely correct. If I were commenting on the surgeries I'd had prior to 2020 I'd be waving positive flags. Then I had a major spine surgery that put me in the chronic pain category. I needed a hip replacement but since I saw the spine surgeon first (a very experienced close to 60 year old that I took my 90 yo mother to) I trusted him and he reviewed the MRI and convinced me to get a much bigger procedure than I needed. So I get really long rods etc instead of a hip replacement. Then Covid delays basically getting the hip done in March 2022. It was the easiest, best relief of pain I ever experienced. However I'm on 40mg a day of Oxycodone and had shots, etc in my back. So I wish I has less trust before the spine surgery in 2020 and saw the hip doc first. I think this is kind of common, getting sold an MRI that says a patient needs a procedure because by the time we get old everything is full of arthritis or worse injuries. When we go to a particular surgeon, they can sell their services. So I'm a bit more hesitant getting my shoulder done because it has a long recovery by my understanding. Finally we're all different. I'll never forget how much pain I was in waiting for the new hip. I hated the world for months. The hospital shut down electives for two months because it was inundated by covid patients. When I woke up from the hip surgery the pain was gone. When I got home that evening I could walk up the eleven steps to our bedroom. I was pain free after years of pain and started PT the next day. My back is ruined but I can walk better. The back is now hindering my ability to walk. That's what the back surgery was supposed to help. Now I'm dealing with H pylori after rectal bleeding. What a strange trip this has been. Never heard of it before? Me either. A lot of people have it and don't know about it.