My pain can go away fifty times in a day. Sometimes when it goes away it feels like I couldn't hurt it with a sledge hammer. Sometimes when it goes away the dread goes with it but it always comes back. Usually when it comes back I get a sense of pessimism and the end of the world right before the pain and sometimes (for months on end) the pain will come first. In the mornings I can sometimes go for as long as a couple hours with very very low level symptoms but not so much at night. As long as I avoid the triggers it will usually be OK but there are a lot of triggers.