This is not medical advice. I am only sharing our experience.
My husband has had this TBPI for 9years now and everyday he has had to take OxyContin (and other drugs) for the relentless, excruciating pain. You know what I'm talking about.
You also know the body builds a tolerance, very quickly, to opiate based pain meds.
We have been at our wits' end trying to get pain relief, trying to cope with the lack of it, trying to raise a family through all of this...
Finally, a specialist in NSW, Australia, told us what we need to do. It involved some switching and combing of his medication and also switching the OxyContin for Methadone. We thought that Methadone was just for those with addiction to Heroin but have since found out (own research, the doctors and our own experience) that Methadone is fantastic for pain relief!
My husband has never had pain coverage like this in the whole nine years! Methadone also blocks withdrawal from opiates.
We had to be referred, by our GP, to a clinic to initiate the process. It takes time for the Methadone to build in your system and the specially trained doctor increases the dose slowly, so at the moment my husband still needs to use OxyContin to fill in the
gaps, but it's much less than what he's had to use. It's been one week today and he's a new man! In a short while, he will be free from OxyContin altogether.
A new life is here and it's going to get better!
Drug dependence happen so do the level of pain management that is needed 
