YEAH, what Jose said. LOL That girl has it down pat.

I can't sleep tonight due to my stress which I think comes from the RSD. I think it does something to the part of the body that causes stress. I am guessing that would be some part of the brain, don't know but it sure does effect the brain too.

She sure got it right about TV. When I lost Bill 11 months ago, I sat up all night watching reruns. I didn't like being in a quiet house even at night. Now I have seen every rerun of Scrubs, Fresh Prince, Full House, Bonanza, Gunsmoke and finally fell asleep and slept through some. LOL I think this is absolutely the worst year of new shows and the reruns are coming 3 weeks into a new season of a show. I believe everyone in the tv industry is in a burnout mode and don't want to work. LOL At least if there were decent shows on to keep a person occupied it might help us a little to keep our mind off of the pain, stress and boredom.

Nights are always my worse. I do deal with major depression and stress gets to me a lot.

The weather sats me off with pain so bad I go into a can't and don't want to keep living mode. Even with extra pills in me so weather is definately a factor at night or even in the day when it's changing.

I don't know if you use lidoderm patches but I have noticed if I throw a few of them on the areas that hurt worse at night they help some and even help make me sleep some. I up my Methadone also at the worst times. I have noticed though that if I am in extremely bad pain, nothing helps. I don't think the whole bottle would help with the pain then.

I hope things do start calming down for you. Something else is to get you some heating pads to help at night in the worst areas. I have 3 of them and I have used 2 at a time before.

With RSD it's a trial and error thing at all times it seems.

Thanks again for all of the great websites you bring up for us. They are so helpful as are you.

Ada