what I've heard and you just related.

It's not a difficult leap to where I'm at. Just imagine multiple body parts that trigger that same excruciating pain and you're there.

Severe pain is the same, whatever causes it. It's only harder for me because it's harder to stabilize multiple areas to avoid triggering it. What sucks for me is that all it takes is one wrong move or simple twitch to trigger several hours long pain that isn't helped by any known pain reliever. I just have to wait it out and try to distract myself from focusing on it. So I doomscroll, post, swear profusely, or listen to happy music to try to entertain or occupy my mind to get through it. When it's over, I crash and hopefully fall asleep.

I tried pot pain relief and all it did was make it worse because pot intensifies my (lesser recognized**) ADHD ability to hyperfocus and it goes directly to the pain. In other applications, it intensifies "other responses", but when it comes to pain, it SUCKS.

**Note: ADHD isn't only an inability to focus- scattered attention- it is also an ability to hyperfocus on any given thing. Add my OCD and it's a real challenge! Only Adderall tames it, but I can't take that at night because it also revs me up so sleep is impossible. A classic "catch 22".

That said, this too shall pass. Once the lumbar back revision surgery & additional fusion is done, it will be so much easier to deal with!

I'm sorry to read that you ever had to get through it. I wish it upon no one, well, now excepting the likes of trump, skuM, Steve Bannon, and Stephen Miller, to name a few.