[davidjhall]

I had chronic pain from a slipped disc - nothing compared to the author or you but I remember sleepless nights of pain, thinking every night of my life was going to be like this. It's hard to think past the moment when the moment is all you have.

After a slew of non-working pain meds, my doctor prescribed an anti-seizure drug, gabapetin, and in days the pain was gone. With the pain gone, I started swimming and strengthening my back and the disc moved back into place, and got off the gabapetin. Every few years or so, something goes wrong and I do the same thing -- gabapentin, swimming, back to ok. I hope you both find something that works.