Cheap beer and home grown?
Biofeedback, meditation - they'll help deal with the pain and therefore help that cycle you can get into where the stress over the pain actually makes the pain work. The few times in my life I've had serious pain, this stress (frustration and inability to concentrate on anything else) has been the major reason the pain seemed unbearable.
Acupuncture (never tried it) and TENS (I think it works on the same principle as acupuncture but involves electronic nerve stimulation instead of needles.) I HAVE used that and it works quite well for certain types of pain. Mine was knees.