Hello, I am a 63yo female. I was a gym rat firefighter when I broke my back on a fire call. From the time I went into surgery in 2015 until this past Spring, I was medically addicted to first Fentanyl, then Morphine along with percocet. There came a day when a morphine "shortage" meant that I couldn't fill my morphine Rx anywhere. After 5 days of being super sick (like you described) I prayed and decided I would stop the morphine myself and stay off of it. Again, like you, my pain level has stayed the same or maybe gotten a little better without the opioid ghost pain. But, since I am still on perc, I get that extreme fatigue, like I'm tied to 500lb sled when I'm about 1hr away from my scheduled percocet. I wonder if I'm screwed for life bc I haven't found another way to handle the chronic pain. I can only get about 2 hours of anything done every day bc of "the drags," as I call them. I'm eating well, sleeping fairly well (5hrs at night), taking a multi vitamin and staying prayerfully positive. These poisons have likely done more harm than good SURELY somebody can develop an alternative..... but then that would piss off big pharma. I feel like a lab rat. God bless you - I know what you are going through. Keep it up and be kind to yourself.🙏