, if you think you're going to be in pain from multiple sources for the rest of your life I would recommend looking into an implanted pain pump. It goes in your abdomen with a catheter up your spine and delivers very small doses of Narcotics directly to the nerves and deals with almost pain anywhere in your body. We're talking about drugs on the order of two to four milligrams of Dilaudid every 24 hours. Drugs delivered this way are 300 times more potent than those delivered by mouth. That's not the right way to say it there not more potent the 300 times more effective. You don't have the problems with addiction you don't have the problems with side effects, somnolence, you never get high, it's just the best thing you're ever going to find to put pain behind you. I still live with pain I am disabled by pain because my pain lights up when I walk so I don't walk very far but prior to getting the pump I was taking huge doses of Narcotics which were totally ineffective. I feel like I found the answer. Where are you located?