I am in a position to understand the agony. I got nerve damage to my hand from the rough and repeated ER procedures to fix a dislocated shoulder. For several months it was constant agony, like I was repeatedly getting electrocuted. It was like torture in hell, with my arm and hand constantly feeling on fire.

Eventually my pain did lessen to a dull pressure, as it is right now. Two years later, my left hand is partially paralyzed but I am grateful that the pain is now comparatively minimal. The doctors did a lot of painful tests and strung me along as if the testing would lead to a cure. As far as I can tell, the medical establishment has no real answers for severe nerve pain. God or nature may have a cure, but the doctors do not. I stopped going to them as I only get tests and the runaround. I will not let them “try” surgery. If they only half fix the nerve problem, the pain will return.

Opiates do help, but the doctors are very resistant to prescribing them. If you ask for opiates, you are treated coldly, like an addict trying to game the system. Anyway, living on opiates is not a real life - sort of a dream life. Still, when in extreme pain, opiates feel like an oasis in the midst of hell. If Pharma is knowingly inflicting this torture on people…well I hear from NDE accounts that in the next life you get to feel the way you made others feel. For each person you harmed. There will be justice. However, until you have experienced this kind of physical pain, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like.