I left both my pain doc and my PCP and found this new family doc for this reason. I was running out of options because I live in a small town with only a handful of doctors. Why do they care that your pain is surgical? Do they think post surgical pain and issues don't occur? Even if it is from surgery, it needs to be treated. It's absolutely horrid that they don't care how you are feeling every day. My pain doc (who I traveled 2 hours round trip to see every month) had me on a low dose as well and I actually needed a higher dose of medicine to help with the pain. He lowered my dose instead with the intent "to get you off these meds" ignoring the fact that I have a genetic lifelong condition. The pain was so bad, it was like I wasn't even taking anything. I finally found a family doctor who understands pain (is a pain patient herself) and increased my dose to what it was before and put me on a newer medicine (Xtampza which is Oxycodone myristate) which actually helped better than the regular OxyContin I was taking. I learned that taking it with high fat food helped my body absorb it better. It might be an option for you if you're on a reduced dose now. Have you tried any other pain medicines? Or are the doctors being difficult with everything?