As his final match draws ever closer, John Cena’s Hall of Fame accolades proceed to be showcased on WWE programming, in addition to in the numerous media appearances he continues to make along the way in which. With a record 17 World Championships to his credit, “The Best of All Time” could probably rest on that alone as the final word highlight of his legendary profession. But intangibles are also price noting, and Cena recently made it known that he’s been in a position to avoid something a lot of his contemporaries and predecessors fell victim to over time, given the slew of injuries that wrestlers often endure.
Appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Cena was asked if he’d ever had an issue with pain medication and his response couldn’t have been more on the contrary. “No,” Cena said. “As a matter of fact, I’ve had fusion in my neck, right pec completely detached [and] reattached, each triceps reattached, each triceps scoped, nose relocated. [I’ve had] ten physical surgeries where they gotta go and proper something. Never taken one pain pill.” Adding that he still has “all of the prescriptions” buried in a drawer at his house, filled, Cena noted the prevalence with which medical professionals prescribe pain meds simply appears to be common practice across the board.
“At every facility,” Cena explained, “the primary hill they climb is pain management. ‘Do you would like something for the pain? Here, you gotta ensure that you’re taking this with you cause you are not in any pain.’ [When] you permit, in case you’re feeling okay, possibly you are high on adrenaline, I do not know, after which the operation sets in. ‘Holy f***, it is a 10 out of 10, I [need something].’ I get that but I suppose from falling down and hurting my body quite a bit, like, I do know my pain threshold.” Passing that along to WWE medical staff, Cena said, they simply couldn’t imagine he went the natural route. “They’re like, ‘You don’t need anything?'” he recalled, and pointing to a cup of coffee in his hand, added, “‘No because I understand how I’m with this.’ I’d be high on opioids on a regular basis.”
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