@marthaellen so glad to see your post Im retired nurse and agree with you

I do understand the desperate need to escape pain and many are forced to take drugs just to stay sane and get relief. Living with pain 24/7 is something which unless you have lived it, as I did a few years ago, you would not understand. I would have sold my soul to the devil to be pain free for just a few minutes. Yet after researching about Kratom I read that it is used to get folks off of opiates and like opiates it is addictive, yet is this a Big Pharm scare tactic? Perhaps someday I will be at a pain level again that it won't matter if it is addictive or not, but now am managing to deal will mild to moderate current health issues. . I have even had to give up my Nsaids because of climbing blood pressure, and have accepted living a life with a certain amount of pain, after all I'm turning 70 the end of this year. I am experimenting with CBD oil because I have not read of usage side effects that worry me. Like me many have discovered CBD does have various benefits, for me if I am getting pain relief it is mild, yet love the calming effect it has.

What type of implants are you referring to? I am assuming it for you hip. I do know many success stories of friends with hip replacement. Yet I lost a dear friend a few years ago who originally had hip replacement surgery at a Saint Louis MO hospital by a famous orthopedic surgeon. She wouldn't heal because she picked up a drug resistant bacteria in her hip. Trying desperately to cure the infection she took trips to Mayo in MN to see specialists. Her last trip there was the last time I saw her, as she lost her battle with this bacteria. It wasn't the implant per say, it was what she picked up during surgery.