Pain and functioning

I do not know how some people can live with chronic pain. I have had horrible pain from my right lower back for a few days. It is a condition that I have had for years but this week it is at its worst. I had to go to urgent care because I do not have a regular doctor yet because we just moved to Idaho Falls and I am waiting to get our insurance cards in the mail. But the pain was so bad and I did not sleep well at all last night. Dennis said I was going to the doctor. So urgent care was the choice we had. In the past when this has happened it usually is mild but this time I can hardly sit, stand or lay down so the only choice I have would be to stand on my hands. However I am uncoordinated and could not pull that one off in the long run. So went to the doctor and he said it sounds like I have piriformis syndrome. He gave me drugs for the pain and inflammation. I came home and looked it up and I think he could be right. I will a stretching regime and that should alleviate it and keep it at bay. I can not imagine what it would be like to live with this kind of pain day in and day out. And if the alternative is to be on pain killers all the time which is the lesser of two evils. To have to deal with shooting pain when sitting down or rolling over in bed would be so defeating but to be loopy and sleepy from drugs would be tough also. So I am hoping I can get it to feel better so I don't have to face such a choice.