Long story short, he was sent to a pain doctor who did pulsed radiofrequency neurotomy on him. It’s a process of a couple of test runs and then the actual proceedure. He was lucky that the tests reset the nerve every time giving him a couple months of relief. Last week he finally had the actual treatment done and is feeling great.

In the mean time, he found that Motrin really helped him with the pain. He would take 600 or 800 mg at a time (3 or 4 pills).

You can read about what this proceedure is like here and here.

I really think you should look into this. He’s been really happy with the results.