davidgillon | So was that a dream?

My hips and pelvis have been acting up since before Christmas*. No clear cause, no clear pattern, but some days no problem, some days it's the right hip hurting, some days the left, some days the SI joint. Sunday it was my coccyx, and I ended up going to sleep on the couch at 8PM and waking up about 2:30AM. Monday was fairly horrible pain-wise, worst day in a long time, with pain hitting both hips at once, which was not helped by having forgotten to renew my opioid patch on Saturday - pauses while he remembers to send in the repeat prescription request - and I spent most of the late morning and pretty much all of the afternoon sleeping. Which of course has thrown my sleep schedule even more completely out of sync. So I was awake all night, during which the hip pain slowly faded away, and about 11AM today I started getting to the point where I needed to fall asleep, or fall over.

So I went to bed and slept until about 16:30 and woke up pretty much pain free and a lot less sleep-deprived, but I have a very vivid memory of waking up at some point in the afternoon with major pain in my right shoulder and thinking quite clearly "Oh, FFS, I'm definitely in a pain flare, where's it going to hit next?"

But my shoulder feels fine now. So was that shoulder pain real, or was it a dream?

* For anyone who's new around here, this is nothing new.