Mouse suggestion for my needs?

[lkrattlehead]

I know I should search for a guide, there's probably one, but I think my issue does not fall under the common lines of "I need a new gaming mouse" or anything.

I'm a writer and most of my day I spend reading and writing, the issue is, even though I bought a somewhat robust mouse+keyboard combo for my needs (Microsoft Wireless combo, not the top one, but the second top, don't remember exactly the model), it gave me the same problem I always ran into with cheaper options:

The mouse wheel isn't durable enough for my needs.

I abuse the mouse wheel, I confess, but I don't think it's much to ask that it would last longer than 6 months. It usually just breaks, but in this case it's clunky, does not roll smoothly, and I end up having to click with the middle button and scrolling with the mouse itself, which will ultimately kill the middle button in one or two months, and does not work when I'm writing (LibreOffice at least does not), only reading.

Which mouse would you recomend? I intend on keeping my wireless keyboard, but the mouse does not need to be wireless, if it is good. I am a sporadic gamer, but I don't need a gaming mouse, I need something that won't break on me because I am short on money to keep rebuying mouses once a year (even less, with some brands I lost my mouse wheel in 2 months!). I almost never broke the left and right buttons, but I need a mouse who will stand my abuse of the wheel and third buttons, because I use them almost as much for at least 2 to 3 hours everyday (would love a tool to measure if this impression is actually correct).

Any thoughts?

I am on a tight budget, but I'll analyze anything as long as it will endure the abuses.

 

[Corwin65]

Maybe reduce your abuse of the wheel?

 

[lkrattlehead]

Maybe reduce your abuse of the wheel?

Not actually something viable for me. I really need to scroll a lot for reading, quoting and reviewing my work.

 

[Solandri]

There are a variety of mice which use a touchpad as their middle/scroll button. I used an old Logitech laptop mouse with this. I ended up returning it because the mouse was too small, but it worked fine for scrolling. Without any moving parts, the scrolling "wheel" should outlast the rest of the mouse. I think these require you to lose the middle mouse click though.

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Arc-Touch-Mouse-RVF-00052/dp/B009CP4PIW
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00519TI5S
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Zone-Touch-Mouse-Windows/dp/B0093H4VBU
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Touch-Mouse-Surface-Windows/dp/B0093H4VSS/

There may be more, that's just what I was able to find in a few minutes of searching. Personally I prefer the Logitech mice with infinite scroll wheels (you can switch the wheel between clicky-scroll and free-scroll if you need to spin it a lot). But to each his own.