It's a tough couple of weeks. I had a pain clinic prescribe me freaking morphine for sciatica. It didn't seem right to me at the time, but it only made me a little loopy the first day and squashed the pain almost instantly. Skip forward 3 months and I forgot to go in for my office visit so I could get the script filled. I've never been so sick in my and it lasted 2 weeks. I didn't even realize what it was until a few days into it. When you get through this, pain will sound awesome compared to what you go through. Good luck.