I'm in the same boat. Chronic pain patient here and all the doctors are scared shytless of writing scripts for pain meds. My pain doctor is stuck on steroids. That's all he wants to do and I'm like no you will NOT give me steroid injections because those are not good. I cannot believe the DEA has caused this much trouble for pain sufferes. My doctor has me on Gabapentin and Robaxin and as I'm typing this I'm in pain and can't do anything about it! Sickening.