Here is a quote from this newsletter I get.

“Interestingly, what people go through with chronic pain has been compared to modern methods of torture, which typically includes both inflicting pain and imposing sleep deprivation.”

I totally agree. Dr. Teitelbaum is an expert in Fibromyalgia. I once had a quite long email exchange with him about my illness, initiated by him when I signed up for a free program on his site. No charge, no trying to sell me anything, just talking about my symptoms and giving advice. I was very pleased and impressed. Anyway, the newsletter:

https://vitality101.com/health-a-z/poor-sleep-and-pain-can-cause-each-other

Sometimes mine is a 2, but rarely. Sometime it is a 9, not as rarely. Mostly it is somewhere in between and can vary daily or even hourly. It is never, ever a zero. Never. I am never pain-free, and meds only make it more tolerable, never cause it to go away. If this is not torture, what is? But it’s your own body torturing you. Life is fun.