Hello @rennie. I'm sorry for your pain, and understand where you're coming from. I guess my question for you is, are you still in a diagnosis phase, or have you (or your doctors) settled on the fact that you have chronic conditions of back and left side pain, and neuropathy? Figuring out whether your situations are acute is the first step, then quite honestly, if they are not, it becomes about working on acceptance and a chronic pain-management game plan.

You mention that you don't have symptoms. Do you mean some of the CSS symptoms described in the video? Maybe you don't have a plethora of symptoms, but you do have symptoms. I went to Mayo's Pain Rehab Center and was joined in class by a variety of chronic pain folks. Granted, we did not discuss our symptoms (that is considered a pain behavior), but Dr. Sletten made us very aware that while some may have less or different symptoms than others, we were all in a similar place of needing a plan to help achieve a better quality of life. Some people, like you, simply had surgery and were left with chronic pain.

Is the Mayo Pain Rehabilitation Center something you might consider looking in to?