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Pain intensity over 20  years from the accident to 8  months after the cold turkey episode: green line:intensity when the participant used medication (oxycodone from the 8th month after the accident to year 20 just before the cold turkey episode) or listened to music (at the end of year 20 to 8th month after at the moment of the assessment). Orange line:intensity when the participant did not use medication (before the oxycodone treatment and some rarely days when she suspended the treatment for a long 20 years) or did not listen to music to relieve the pain. At first, 8 months before the first dose of oxycodone, she felt an intensity of 8 and then fluctuated to 7 when she began to be more active, riding a bike, and having a natural path by eating anti-inflammatory foods and avoiding sugar and salt. When she started using the medication, she felt no pain at first, but it increased right before the cold turkey episode. Since she listens to music, she has had periods completely free of pain, sometimes 1 or 2 days without pain, but with an intensity 6 if she does not listen to music: "if you ask me where my pain average was in the last 2 months I would say maybe a 3 in the worst period... Once in a while, if I go hiking up high elevations may be 6 or 7. But every day at my desk call week is 4 maybe."
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Location of pain when she has not used medication (A) and when she took medication or listened to music (B). When there were no periods of medication, the pain was felt in the back of the legs, which was sciatica, and nerve pain in the legs and under the feet. When she took medication or listened to music, she felt pain in her lower spine and feet, where she also felt relief.
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