Hi Marie, I'm Juliann. Your words, "all I know is pain, and how it has robbed my life," really struck a chord with me. I've been in pain for 37 years, and suffer from treatment resistant depression and PTSD. I've been on anti-depressants most of my life, and until lately, they did nothing for me. But after getting on the right medication and getting a part-time job, I'm doing much better. I still struggle with how pain and doctors and robbed my life from me. I do see a therapist once a month and it helps a lot. I do use a Fentanyl patch for my pain, maybe it would help you too. Please hang in there, life can get better.

I want to say a quick hello to you and I have been on antidepressants for 45 years. The meds have been improving all the time, thank God.
What part of your body do you put your patch and can you go swimming with it on?
You will see my reply down the bottom to Jessie.

Hello @marield65 My wife used a fentanol patch for several months towards tge end of her illness. She slternated wearing tgem on her shoulder blades. She also found relief through the use of ABHR suppositories and then the same in a cream applied to her neck or inside of her wrists.

Peace & Strength

Hi, @marield65. I noted you mentioned having knee replacement surgery. I wanted to be sure you’d met @contentandwell, @beatricefay , @niazumbanut , @gailfaith and @maryx1937, some of the Connect members who have discussed post-knee replacement surgery here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/after-knee-replacement-surgery/?pg=1.

@marield65 Marie, don't you hate that when you hit something and all you wrote is gone? That happened to me last night on a different post. I was too tired to recreate then but will have to today.
JK