No comfortable spot anywhere.
It's not easy to fall asleep with chronic pain. Once you are there you also may have trouble waking up too, but my biggest problem is the "finding the sleep place". I often say that phrase to my family and close friends. Finding the sleep place for me is that wonderful spot where my body is happy enough to relax and will drift off into dream land with little to no effort. One might think that would be an easy task, although the sleep place never seems to be in the same place two nights in a row, so finding it requires a long series of previous successful attempts and maybe some creative new ones.
Miserable minute after minute wasted laying in the dark, constantly moving to new positions, turning myself from end to end of the bed, trying desperately to find comfort. I constantly dread the clock, as the minutes turn to hours. Every sound that happens or car that drives by the house, just anything, even the cats walking through the house are irritating and keeping me up!
The sheets have to be super soft. My pillow must be just right and as soft and fluffed as I can possibly get it.
Sleeping with chronic pain seems to be challanging... time for helpful linkage:
√ http://saveyourself.ca/articles/insomnia-until-it-hurts.php
Acupunture... I'm not sure I'd be able to try that, but it's an interesting read.
Chronic Pain and Insomnia: Breaking the Cycle
- Hands, fingers, wrist, entire arms, shoulders, neck, and upper back have been terribly painful all day like 6-9 (no tears but almost, if I hadn't been able to calm it down several times with rest, heat and meds)
- lower back throbbing and aching all day and down my right leg pain level 7
- knees, ankles and feet pain levels 8
- hip and butt are very sore pain levels 7-9 through out the day
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