Evenings and nights are worse for me. I feel pretty good in the morning, but like right now I am hurting.

I always told my husband that I felt like the 'tin-man' in the morning. I needed for my meds to kick in before I could do Anything at ALL. Hobbling to the bathroom out of necessity was all that I could do and forget about conversation ! I'd bite someone's head off before I'd converse with anyone. So, hubby learned the drill. I'd wake, take my meds and he would step lightly until I struck up the conversation. Until my recent success with my meds, I have never known, not EVEN as a child ! what it was even like to wake up refreshed. I spoke with my sweet mother today and she was having a good day (Alzheimers) and she was giggling about what a grump I always was in the morning - since birth..lol.

Seriously, I think that I've had pain as long as I can recall. It got worse through out the past 20 years and I lived the past 5 or more, in bed. Just a few days a month out, maybe 5, at most 7 days.

I pray that all will find something that works as well as my new meds are working for me. I got my whole Life back and some health issues are better than I've ever known, such as waking up fresh for the first time ever.

Has anyone noticed that their pain, neuropathy, and stiffness gets worse the closer you get to your period? Sometimes I'm like something from a horror movie, dragging my left foot behind me. At this point, I'm actually praying for menopause.

Oh God, mornings have always been a night mare. some days I need help to get out of bed,,,,I have literally been in agony, no exageration. I was so stiff and so sore, I looked like that 90 year old woman someone was mentioning,,,,,

AND YES it was/is MOST HORRID just before my period!!!! I told docs that for years and years and years and NOBODY listened! They all said I was NUTS!

However, cymbalta has changed my life and taken away about 80-90% of my pain, and I pray for that for you all! But even with most of my pain gone, I still notice I am the teensiest bit stiff in the mornings and the week before my period,,,,,just enough to make me uncomfortable.

Might want to check out getting a new matteress, which has been posted on here before. I got a new one and I dont have the pain I use to have when I would wake up or even wake up during the night in pain

Mornings and night are the worst for me..but the middle isn't fantastic either LOL

YES! In the morning I can hardly move.
I am so stiff I feel like the "tin man" that needs to be oiled. LOL

Night-time is horrible too cause I am so tired it hurts to move. UGH!

So you are not alone. I will say a prayer for you!

I am basically just in pain all day long.....UGH!

YUCK! :-(

I wake up fine but then I start to move. I eat right away and feel well enough to practice tai chi but then I often get a mid-morning zap of fatigue. I take most of my naps between 10 & 11 a.m. and I don't schedule any meetings for the morning if I can help it.

I started eating about 30 grams of protein with my morning oatmeal and it eliminated the afternoon slump but I can't figure out this morning thing. It's like hitting a brick wall. My SIL says I should eat a second breakfast at around 9 a.m. I think maybe a banana, but not a meal. I keep trying to remember to eat something, but you know how that goes.

OH YES!!!!! Morning is the worst!!! I have to roll outta bed ( after having to force myself awake cuz I'm so tired!)....& I walk to the bathroom hunched over like I'm 75!! ( I'm 34!).

Yes, mornings are the worst. I stretch before I even get out of bed, then do about 20 more minutes of stretches before I can get in the shower. I try to hold off on pain meds until I get to work, because if I don't, they interact with the night time meds that haven't worn off yet. Soemtimes the drive to work is pretty scary, I'm so sleepy. On weekends it's when I can sleep in. Evenings aren't too bad unless I've been on my feet too much during the day. What sucks the most is that the pain level is never 0 - there's always some pain.