The last resort or the ultimate solution? Are you going to be in pain for the rest of your life, serious pain affecting your quality of life and desire to live? Don't forget, because of my situation, I had access to unlimited supplies of opioids, within reason, 262 mgs per day, and even those doses became ineffective. Even so they were dulling my brain and senses. I was not experiencing euphoria or highs of any kind. They just stopped working well enough and left me with a syndrome of hypersensitivity that made any small pain just unbearable. The pump brings me sufficient relief to carry on and be mentally sharp. I am still disabled by pain because walking causes great pain and weariness. I have less then one working lung and the effort to breath wears me out. The pump is safe, cheap, doesn't make problems for my doctors on whom I depend. Many of you may note that this reflects big change from my previous position advocating for easy access to all dugs and that still works for a time. The added stress that obtaining those meds really complicates your life and adds to stress and depression which both increase the experience of having pain. If your pain comes and goes or if your recovering from something that will get better then oral meds are appropriate and should be available but they are not always easy to get these days. I had some are doctors who trusted me and understood that giving me control over what I took resulted in me needing and taking less. But we must never forget, humans love to get high. It starts when your about 3 years old and you realize you can alter your consciousness by spinning in circles until you get dizzy and fall down. What do we do next? We stand up and do it again. Say you have pain meds for what ever reason and you have a day or a function that you really want to be present for. You want no pain for one day or evening. So you take an extra pill or two and your brain experiences euphoria. Maybe it works so well the next time a situation .like that comes along you take 3 extra pills and you get wacked and your brain really likes it. At this point your brain becomes a free agent. It's still ,living in your head but it has it's own desires and agenda now. If you haven't lived with or around addicts you have no idea how little control many people have from this point on. I have seen junkies and other addicts do unbelievable things not just to get high but just to stave off withdrawal. I was sometimes denied pain meds when I hurt so much I wanted to die but I never hurt badly enough to go to the street to buy. The drive to be out of pain is not that strong, not nearly as strong as the brains desire to repeat the experience of euphoria. Having witnessed this behavior in junkies back in the 70's, I was able to resist ever taking enough meds to completely eliminate my pain. I knew how easy it would be to slip over that line into euphoria and how hard it is to not repeat that behavior. I guess I was lucky said the guy whose quality of life has been greatly diminished for 30 years, whose successful career as a glass artist was brought to an end and his ability to walk takin away by pain. Anything is better than addiction. If you doubt how bad it can be or that it can happen to you just stop and look at how many people have died, not from pain but from overdoses buying street pills or stolen pills they took after months of abstinence not realizing how much their tolerance had gone down.

Again, ic your in pain and are going to stay that way, maybe try the spinal stimulator. Personally I don't think they are worth a damn but they work for some people. Beyond that, the i trathecal pump is the answer.