Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | Why does my chronic pain wait to be the worst until I go to bed?? Like, during the day it’ll mostly be temporary short bursts of pain, sometimes longer, but then bedtime hits and suddenly my knees are in constant excruciating pain

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Chronic Illness 12w

Why does my chronic pain wait to be the worst until I go to bed?? Like, during the day it’ll mostly be temporary short bursts of pain, sometimes longer, but then bedtime hits and suddenly my knees are in constant excruciating pain

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Anonymous 12w

The body relaxes the pain comes out to party (Think of it as like rats coming into an alley at night😂)

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Anonymous 12w

It’s usually because during the day your brain is focused on a bunch of different things and so it’s easier to ignore the pain however at night, your brain calms down and so previously unnoticed things become noticeable

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