Arthritis- the physical and emotional journey

Sleep
We all need sleep at some point during the day but we seem to always have those nights where you just can’t sleep. Welcome to my world! 
With arthritis comes pain and it’s uncomfortable, so after a long day or just a arthritic flare up sleep can be far away. No matter how much I just want to curl up in a ball and forget all the pain, I lay there awake for endless hours. I try hard to get comfortable but the pain over rides and I’m left still awake. When I finally get to sleep it can be easy to be disturbed or woken by further pain.
This is not always the case though, there are good nights when I can sleep soundly and fall asleep within minutes of going to bed. Those are the nights that I wish for because without sleep I feel like a walking zombie.