Hi! I really got so much help and info from your message. I’m so sorry about how you came to get your pain situation! My pain issues came because I got a rare endocrine disease called Panhypopituitarism which means I don’t have a working pituitary gland. It took me nearly ten years to get diagnosed. During that period I read medical books and finally figured out what I most likely had. So I read about a great endocrinologist at Mass. General Hospital in Boston so I called him and he had me fly up there. He diagnosed me really fast and I was started on all replacement hormones. However during my doctor search, my disease got me so sick that I couldn’t drive to work or walk very far. So I got a lawyer and applied for disability. I was then seen by a governmental group and judge and after just one session with them, they decided that very day that I was completely disabled and okayed disability payments. So I had to quit my job but would have had to anyway because my husband got very sick with Parkinson’s and died very fast. Since I’m unable to drive I cannot do many things that would be of help, like seeing a therapist because I have to rely on relatives to drive me places and they already feel very tired from taking me to all my doctor and medical test appointments.