DrugBuyers.Com: BACK SURGURY- good or bad idea?

I have considered back surgury to be the last resort with back patients in chronic pain.

I have tried a lot of the convential treatments and some of the holistic ones like accupunture and a chiropractor.

None have helped with the exception of ever increasing dosages of pain killers.

While I do not consider this a proble as long as I have access to pain killers and am willing to accept being dependent on them for the rest of my life (I am 48), it is increasingly difficult to find doctors willing to write pain meds.

It would be nice to be rich enough to us OP's but I can't afford it and they are a grey area.

I have heard more stories that back surgury screwed up someone and made them MORE dependant on pain meds. I have also heard a few success stories. But these are in the minority.

AT one time, back surgury would have been cheap under my insurance. Now, like many who do have health insurance, it is carp. The cost of the surgury and follow up would be very expensive for me.

So I wanted people who have actually had surgury for lower, herniated disks who have undergone surgury to reply as whether it worked, did nothing, how long it lasted, the cost, are they still taking pain meds, etc.

I would only consider surgury at this time if I could find no doctors willing to give out the needed pain meds in my area.

But I like to explre my options.

I am so tired of the DEA and the government and doctors themselves withholding needed medications that I am very seriously moving to another country or at least a city next to Mexico or Cananda if I do stay in the United States.

I am fortuante that I can move because of no family and I get pensions that go with me . In therory, even my health insurance should be accepted internationally. But this issue is not clear.

I have read that some Asian countries are very liberal with the pain meds assuming you have the money. I think that Latin America would also not care in general.

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