Chronic Pain
"I Am 59. @ 19 years ago; I began to experience abdominal pain almost daily. I managed to live and work through it. I am a house painter so I was cut out of a &quot;tougher&quot;mold. Those of you who&#039;ve worked w/your hands; know. But the pain got worse. 3 years of constant;sometimes suicidal pain I was found to have a rare blood disease.Chronic intractable pain. After swimming in prescribed opiates for a few years;my tolerance was through the roof &amp; the pain remained. I needed the meds just to function &amp; I always ran out too soon. I had to get off that crap! It was a war; but I survived &amp; so did the pain.Square1.... Even worse b/c now I can&#039;t get anyone to write mess 4 me! But I needed them; so I became a 50yr old criminal; homeless, jails.."