The only relief came from pain medication, which varied from Percocet, Oxytocin, Opana and then with the opioid epidemic, I was forced to switch to
Methadone.
And if being in constant pain wasn’t bad enough, it became a humiliating struggle just to get pharmacies to fill my legal prescriptions. Pulled aside and being told I wasn’t a known customer, while everyone in earshot of the conversation would begin to stare as I would be turned away empty handed, off to try another pharmacy.