Getting back to taking pain meds.. Don;t do them as someone said ---they don't take away pain -they just give you a -i don't care. You can ask your Family Dr. for Valium 5 -10 or 15. Once you start pain meds you will like them so much that it's so hard to get off. Then your pain comes back when your try to stop them. Valium will get you sleepy and also give you that -I don't care. It took me 10 years to get off Meds. I was on cod.#4 then oxcod. 80 mg x4 a day,then the patch. Getting off was a nightmare. Still today i don't feel right. I lost the love of life because of those dam pills. Drs. gives them out to easy.