Chronic pain

Chronic pain is described by the NIH as follows: "Chronic pain persists. Pain signals keep firing in the nervous system for weeks, months, even years." Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is one of the conditions mentioned as experiencing chronic pain.

Symptom recognition

 * In the Canadian Consensus Criteria, pain is a required symptom for diagnosis. It requires that "there is a significant degree of myalgia. Pain can be experienced in the muscles, and/or joints, and is often widespread and migratory in nature. Often there are significant headaches of new type, pattern or severity."

Notable studies

 * 2018, Association of sleep disorders, chronic pain, and fatigue with survival in patients with chronic kidney disease: A meta-analysis of clinical trials via Sleep Medicine

Learn more

 * 2016, 23 Ways to Combat Pain Naturally By Increasing Your Opioids