10 years on pain meds... I lowered my dose myself, find no need to increase it to where I am a zombie sleeping constantly. I live with high pain levels despite the narcotics... as I mentioned I take enough to dull the pain so I can get moving and so I can sleep. I have 10 extra percocet a month for breakthrough issues like the last 3 days where i was having bad nerve pain in my right foot from a pinched nerve... I like to be able to sorta sleep at night and having your foot feel like someone was stabbing 2 wires with 240 volts into it every 10 minutes means no sleep at all. The percocet adds some anti inflammatory to take the swelling down on that nerve.
I looked into medical pot... not on my budget!!! Would cost me $500 a month plus MN strips your gun rights so no thanks!