The kratom u use is it the red strain? Pill form? My husband is a 100 percent disabled veteran and has been on everything from morphine to muscle relaxers. Kratom and pure peppermint oil helps alot. The red strain kratom is the best for pain. and the pure peppermint oil is so strong that it goes through the bone and muscle for long periods of time and it heats up. It also helps to use heating pads everywhere in your house. Massage therapy on people with neurological problems makes it worse I believe it like opens up receptors that should be closed.