Happy Father’s Day brother Keith. Plants are hella good man, rain and sun is natures best kept secret. Hope you get some sun and the back pain eases off.
I would recommend you a natural remedy for pain but I don’t want you to get in trouble cause I don’t know how things are in the states, here they don’t care.
Poppy tincture 100% guaranty to calm pain in the central nervous system. Used with caution can help your pain, used without caution can cause tolerance build up and get you in to heavyer meds. I make my own using poppy fresh seed pods after the flower dies and cut them in half, put in a maison jar and pour 250 ml or 500ml of brandy or 60% or plus spirits and/or moonshine. The process is a slow alcohol extraction that takes around 3 months. The main components that are morphine and codeine and other alkaloids that can help you calm intense pain.
The entire California poppy plant is medicinal, you can make teas just out of foliage and stems or roots, you will be calmed and sedated, even better fall asleep. I believe you can even find finish products over the counter as the finish product is controlled.
All the best G.