Dest-'roid

Follow up with the GP for pain management because the radiology report from the hospital stint had him knowing I'd have to be absolutely destroyed to have even presented at the emergency department of my own free will. He knows my pain threshold is a great deal higher than most (pre-back injury I was without pain relief for a jaw, shoulder, hip and knee that need reconstructions and a shoulder that needs a RE-reconstruction; scoliosis; and a condition similar to osteoporosis, but it is hereditary instead of being caused by calcium deficiency). If I'm saying "Paul, I was in the recovery position, crying. The pain is that bad", even with the cocktail of relief he has me on, he is beside himself with worry.
Obviously I cannot safely increase the doses or frequency of oxycodone and diazepam intake. I cannot have the slow release tramadol more than twice a day as I'm on the highest safe dose. Likewise, I am on the highest therapeutic dose of the meds to relieve the neuropathic symptoms.
The only safe course of action is to pump me full of steroids in HIGH doses for a week. The theory is..... I can't remember now, but he did this a few weeks after the pain started in September when it was evident this wasn't going to be a quickly resolved injury, and for a while it helped. Also helped my dodgy joints and meant I didn't need a cortisone injection into my shoulder for a bit longer.

So, the other meds are massive downers, obviously the steroids are uppers, so I have this battle of physical and cognitive lethargy, but oddly my mind is having incoherent thoughts at a million miles an hour.
And I'm really, REALLY hungry.

I'm destroyed.
I'm dest-'roid.