Doesn't begin to compare with having your knee cut open, pried apart so a CNC milling machine can cut away bone, then wrenched back together with titanium and UHMW plastic substitutes. There's probably a video of the operation on the web somewhere. It's been done to me; I don't want to watch but you may enjoy it.
Don’t know about that, but I am fairly certain that the amount of pain I was in would have your average person running to the ER for pain meds.
I’ve known two people on long-term opioid therapy (neither suffering from cancer, which is supposedly the only recommended reason for long-term opioid therapy) and both acted/acts like they were/are stoned on something.
One of them has caused quite a few vehicle accidents (can’t imagine why) and runs to the ER all the time with a complaint of pain 10/10. He’s an addicted drug seeker, on Medicaid and SSI, so we get to pay for it. He got terminated from one pain doctor for that crap but it didn’t take him long to find another one.
Opioids are bad news, and the addicts won’t admit it, from what I’ve seen.