I think the hardest part of pain right now is that even though I theoretically live in the land of the free, it doesn't feel that way. Kratom and cannabis are illegal at state levels forcing me to either break the law every single day, or take extremely harmful pharmaceuticals. Can't easily acquire Peptides or steroids. Can't access stem cell treatments, despite the massive amount of evidence in its effectiveness at treating chronic pain My only options given to me as one who lives in Louisiana are take pain pills for rest of life, get multiple massively invasive surgeries or be cast off from society as some forgotten miserable husk of a person