I’ve been experiencing chronic nerve pain in my face for about 5 years now. My body has also been deteriorating slowly as well with losing strength, tendinitis in multiple joints, arthritis in my knees, and constantly becoming injured very easily. I’ve seen dozens of doctors and specialists. I’ve had so many test and scans done but no one can find anything conclusive. The doctors just keep experimenting with different medications, or trying old ones in conjunction with new or old ones. I had to start seeing a therapist to help with my emotions towards the pain. I feel as if I’m always at a doctors office. I try to take every day one day at a time but it’s so difficult. I own a business where I’m the main point of contact, have a family and am the sole provider, and try to have a hobby. With all that, dealing with the pain on a minute by minute basis throughout the day is exhausting. I’ve found the full blown immersive distractions such as needing to fully concentrate on the task at hand will subside some of the musclier pain, but not the nerve pain. So between everything I have on my “plate”, the non stop pain, and always trying to be fully distracted, it just leaves me completely exhausted and uninterested in doing anything else besides what I absolutely half to do. I find myself doing as little as possible towards the end of the day due to how tired I am. This only causes the pain the ramp up while also making myself feel down because I’m not doing other things I would like to do. I just don’t have the motivation or the drive to keep moving. This pain is absorbing all my energy. I’m so tired.