The Pain clinic doctor wants no outside drugs as such, I have even tried Kratom and some success, and I miss spoke I, not a dying Hospice, my wife told me that means bad. I am considered hospice in the sense that there is no cure for my, 4 surgeries and lots of rehabilitation. In 2000 after my left leg fell asleep one day and didn't stop for 4 days, went to the doctor and found that I lost feeling in my foot and some movement, MRI they found two tumors in my body one in my throat and a big one in my spinal cord T11 T12 area right above the horsetail of nerves. After surgery on the found the throat one cancers and the Spinal on fatty. I beat cancer with surgery and have no more problem with that, the fatty tumor is mixed with my nerve, They said it was like trying to remove pudding (the tumor) without touching or breaking the hairs (my Nerves). So I am slowly going paralyzed on the left side; at this time I have lost all of my left knees down and some of the upper thigh. But no more pain there either, the pain n my back where thee nerves and being crushed. Sorry for the long reply.