Coping with the pain
Pain seems to be the one constant when you live with chronic illness. Everything else like blood tests and scans and x-rays seem to ebb and flow at different times, but for me pain seems to be a constant companion.
With my pain the only thing that changes is the intensity of it. Some days I can use distraction as a coping mechanism and others I need to bring out the chemical big guns. Night times are the worst, hour after hour with unremitting pain and only the radio for company.
Who ever it was that said, “It is always darkest before the dawn”, must have suffered a chronic illness I reckon.
I can really relate to how you are feeling,sometimes listening to my radio is the only thing that gets me through the night.