I didn't lack pain killers as I still had some left from a couple surgeries the last couple years only they are narcotics. I just wanted something stronger that wouldn't put you to sleep and make you feel drowsy afterwards or something that calmed down nerves or muscles...whatever they determine in my visit I messed up. The next day I read where there was a shortage of pain killers because of this virus. Yesterday I saw a nurse on the news seeming to be breaking apart down in, I think it was in New Orleans, over the state of things down there and she couldn't believe she was struggling to get Tylenol to her patients. So I would imagine it just the state of where things are at right now. The last couple days though it became to much pain to face and took the narcotics, I was like I can't think straight anyway so what the heck. I also switched from putting ice compresses on it like she suggested and went to using my heating pad. I think I am nearing about seventy percent better though I am not going to give that a one hundred percent until the narcotics start wearing off. My foot is till a bit numb but not as mind tingling numbness as it was. I think the biggest change switching from cold to heat may have had the biggest impact and I don't even know why I followed her advice on the cold. Cold is more for bringing down swelling. Once she told me I may have compressed nerves I should have followed the old heat to cold muscle theory from cosmetology school. If you have cramped muscle the trick is moist heat...I didn't use moist heat this time though just the heating pad. The trick to cramped muscles is they are constricted so you want to get them to constrict and un-constrict to get them moving properly again. You do that by taking a damp towel and placing it in the microwave (you can use a pot of warm, not boiling water also) you put it on the sore muscle area and leave it there until it cools, after it cools you wait a few minutes and do it again, you repeat the process until it works....and it works rather well. My heating pad shuts off after twenty minutes so I just laid there letting it turn off, waiting a few minutes then turning it back on, warm, cold, warm, cold. Constrict, un-constrict, constrict, un-constrict until everything starts to slowly loosen back up.