Looking for advice on pain relief medication

Thank you everyone for your replies, Take care.

After being told my pain is all in my head by a pain specialist, I decided I was done with doctors. I now use cannabis and kratom for pain, and they both work excellent. I live on the West Coast of the US though, where most things are legal, but I realize those things aren't legal everywhere. If they weren't legal here I'd buy them online because they are effective with minimal side effects.

I started topamax because lyrica’s side effects were killing me, even though it helped a lot from a pain perspective. Tooamax is working really well! It does give me nose bleeds and I have no hunger at all on it (which is good in that I’m on a diet but bad in that all I could eat today was five bites of food) but it’s helping the pain so I think it’s worth it!

Pain med? I wish I could get some. I live in Pennsylvania where they passed an opiate law foolishly thinking they could reduce the opiate deaths on the streets. All it did was hurt people like us in continuous pain.

I am unfamiliar with that med. Pain meds are something I don't know a lot about anyway. All of my doctors just refuse to prescribe pain meds, no matter how much pain I am in. Why? I wish I knew. I really don't understand. No one deserves to live in hell! I'm so sorry I don't have better info. May The Great Spirit be with you.