Lupus-Can you Sleep With Chronic Pain

Lupus-Can you Sleep with Chronic Pain and other Rheumatologic Disorders?

Studies have shown that sleep and changes in sleep are related to various cellular, hormonal, and immunological functions. Therefore, pain and other components of the disease Lupus, may influence the sleep process. Laymen’s terms…Pain therefore interacts with the disease process and your sleep process as well…

I remember when I was a child, that I loved to skate. But skating made my legs feel like I had cancer, they would hurt so much. Two times around the rink was all I could do. Then I would just have to sit and watch the other skaters. Even then, I was not able to rest at night because my legs and feet hurt so much, for 2-3 nights.

I have SLE or Systemic Lupus Erythematous and here is one of my most recent interactions with sleep and pain.

December 26Th, 2008, in the evening, my neighbors shed caught on fire, then the trees and their yard. My adrenaline was surging and I was running around to the neighbors to alert them, putting out fires all over my yard as flames were 800 feet into the air and it was raining fire. Then standing outside with my neighbors until they were all safely stashed somewhere safe.

Needless to say, it was 4 hours and my legs are only good for normal conditions of about 45 minutes max. Today is the 30Th of December and I can bearly walk. I am only sleeping about 3 hours a day and that is only in one hours naps. I can not sleep with cronic pain, stiffness, muscle aches and fatigue.

Correspondingly, many of the daytime symptoms in patients with rheumatic diseases, such as Lupus are pain, stiffness, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction. Those reactions or symptoms of Lupus are linked to non-restorative sleep patterns. In other words…you are not going to be able to rest well, if any.

So, the changes in your progress of Lupus will also affect your sleep, The relationship of Lupus the autoimmune disease and your ability to be able to rest peacefully is going to be a relationship that is going to be tested when ever you have a Lupus flare up or what I call “down time.”

Lupus-Can you sleep with cronic pain? I am not able to. I can not remember “a good night’s sleep.” Right now I am sleep deprived.

My Life With Lupus
~The Baby Boomer Queen~

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