You know, the pain itself can lead to the exhaustion. You mentioned that you just crash on the couch. If you don't have CFS, the pain is probably just draining on your body. You don't sleep well when you are in pain, but it also just wears you out. It's physically taxing when you have to compensate, plus the emotional drain doesn't help. I was just discussing this tonight with my PT (while she was inflicting pain upon me, ha, but it was for my own good at least.) |