My experience, when I was taking heavy meds daily, was that my pain worsened - so I took even more meds...
I believe that when you first start taking pain killers, they work great! But after you've been on them for a while-or years... The pain only gets worse.
The thing I'm trying to figure out is why my joint got so bad when I was taking my meds. Just a couple of weeks ago when I had to take my meds pain, my arthritis got really bad again. I can't explain it.