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> 100%, medication plays a great role in providing comfort and support but it can be ineffective (and often harmful) if relied on solely for recovery from (neuroplastic) chronic pain.

Medication can help you get out of a local maxima, sometimes with pain the issue is that your nervous system is hyperactive and just constantly firing which feeds back into itself in a positive feedback loop. If you can take pain meds and/or nerve blockers it can help break that loop and let you do things like go out and walk, exercise, live a life where pain is not always on the forefront of your consciousness. That in turn can let you get into a better state and break the local maxima and then you can wean off the meds.

If however, you do not change your lifestyle/condition when on the meds things will not get better long term as your body will lose responsiveness to the meds.

I am not a doctor.