As for the pain meds, primary doc has me on tramadol. She said she can't put me on anything stronger because of me fitting the demographic - bearing in mind that anything much stronger actually IS starting to edge into opioid territory. Regardless, I will be bringing this up with her next time I actually get to speak with her for more than a minute at a time (she has the habit of poking her head into the room and telling a nurse to take care of whatever the obvious problem is, without ever really stopping to speak to me...)