Hi fanfaire --
I just had to see what you wrote, with a name like yours... I must say, I like your dog.
Two things come to mind, first is that the more I behaved like your dog while I had tetanus, the more my health improved.
(now I've got to check and make sure your dog is sleeping the way I think I remember him... I have a bit of brain damage and I need to check things a lot to be sure I get them right... and then, of course I never check enough.)
Do you find you're the best first thing in the morning? That's the way it was for me. (Tetanus is a central nervous system disease.)
Second... I wonder if you know whether you have any symptoms of low B12... B12 has a lot to do with nerves and therefore with pain and with a feeling (or not) of well being.
I've been having B12 replacement therapy for ten years... and just wish I'd had more of it to start with...
If you look into it and decide to try it, be sure you read the labels of the bottles at your healthfood store to be sure the one you get has Methylcobalamin... that's the best kind because it's the form our bodies use.
It just makes me smile to imagine you getting it and feeling a remarkable difference.
(it's not a cure all, I don't want to mislead you, but the difference it made to my health has been remarkable.)