You all are very thoughtful. Thanks for the kind words.

My docs know about my cocktails (I run my proposed sleep remedies past them before full implementation), although a mix of everything is really not all that common. Typically if I can't sleep I just take more neurontin. As it is I've been having liver and kidney function tests about every 3 months anyway since I've been on the diclofenac for over a year (and took a whole lot of ibuprofen for probably 5-6 years before that).

RnRG, this is a really old injury (as in about 30 years old) that blew in the fall of '08 and has gotten worse since then. The surgeon I am working with is a runner (has run several 100 mile events) and feels pretty confident that I'll be easy running again within a year, easy cycling within 6 months. I figure it'll be a year of a lot of walking and hiking. But no mountain biking for at least a year, probably