Responding to chronic pain is important as it is the best approach to helping treat your pain that is keeping you up at night and making your daily life miserable. Just ask anyone who has chronic pain, and they will tell you how awful it is day-in and day-out. Here are some suggestions on when you need to see a pain specialist: your pain won’t go away; medications are not helping; when your pain has decreased but it’s still an issue; when you prefer an alternative to invasive surgery; and you are willing to replace prescribed painkillers with alternative drug-and-pain-free-treatments.