Nervous...scared...anxious...

You are in my thoughts and prayers, Doug.
I sure hope you come up with a happy medium between the stim and meds to control your ongoing pain issues.
Over the years I have read your posts about your pain issues, and feel you deserve a good outcome finally.
Please don't feel that ''the opioid crisis'' includes people like yourself who need the pain management to deal with day to day activities just to be functional.
The ''opioid crisis'' to me is for targeting people who take them for ''kicks'' and does not apply to you..........at all.
Many people don't understand the full extent of what persons like yourself are going through just to move around and have a semblance of normal life without the aid of medications.

Personally, I too have issues with back pain and knee pain and it can be frustrating at times, but with anti inflammatories and rest as well as pacing myself, I have managed my issues to a point where I am functional.

Please keep on posting your results, as well as the trials and tribulations you face, there are a lot of people here that may be living in silence for fear of embarrassment for needing and taking the pain management that they need just to cope with life in general.

Thank you for your perseverance, you are helping more people than you realize!