Anyone notice pain much worse at night?

[Alaska]

Hi Allan,

Got your previous message, I'll e-mail a reply separately.

Regarding night time pain, my pain increases in the early evening up until I go to bed. I call it the evening blahs, i.e. feeling very sore, irritable, and so on. During my sleep hours, I wake up every 30 minutes to 2 hours because of the constant pain. This is going on even with pain meds and sleep meds. When I wake up in the morning, I have a hard time getting out of bed because I am so stiff and sore. Sometimes I don't get out of bed until the late afternoon because of the pain.

So after blabbing forever, I would have to say after a day of moving around, I am worse off during the late hours of the day. I think this is due to the spine moving around much more in the day, than during the sleeping hours. I also think that when a person wakes up, the spine is starting to move around again after it has been in "stable" condition all night. Thus, pain is regenerated. During the day, the spine "loosens up", pain decreases, and when the end of the day comes, the cycle starts all over again.

Keep in mind, this comes from a stubborn ol' native. Ha!

Best of luck to you, Eric

[ans]

Thanks for your input Eric. I'm sorry that w/I saw you, you were in such pain. Too bad you can't get a good night's sleep.

When we get better, can I visit you in AK and murder some grizzly's? (Everyone needs a hobby).

Be well young man. - ans

[Maria]

Is usually worse at night as I sit or lie around doing very little and then in the early a.m. when I first get up and until I take my pain meds. I think it's the arthritic pain that sort of gets me at both times.

Now if I've been overdoing at whatever then usually that's just a progressive pain that happens whenever and needs to be listened to at the same time. I've learned that often muscle relaxers seem to help me quite abit avoid or quell an acute flare up that might last a little longer if I didn't use anything.