{"id":62551,"date":"2025-06-25T08:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mivisalud.com\/blog\/sleeping-with-chronic-pain-how-does-it-affect-us\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:36:47","slug":"sleeping-with-chronic-pain-how-does-it-affect-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mivisalud.com\/en\/blog\/sleeping-with-chronic-pain-how-does-it-affect-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping with chronic pain, how does it affect us?"},"content":{"rendered":" \n

The quality of life of people suffering from chronic pain can be affected by it in many ways: emotional and psychological problems<\/a>, loss of desire to perform some activities, constant discomfort when doing routine tasks such as housework or work…. Even our rest can be affected<\/strong>. <\/p> \n \n

Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. This sensation, both physically and psychologically, is to blame for the fact that we often find it much more difficult to do seemingly simple and even pleasant things, such as sleeping<\/strong>. <\/p> \n \n

Chronic pain and sleep<\/h2> \n \n

Dr. Fernando de la Torre, member of the Spanish Pain Society<\/a>, comments in this interview this interview<\/a><\/strong> that “insomnia is the first consequence of chronic pain to be treated in pain units”. This implies that people suffering from chronic pain are more likely to have sleep disorders such as insomnia, to sleep intermittently and less deeply. <\/p> \n \n

Sleep deprivation or poor sleep, prevents the proper recovery of our body and can worsen allodynia or<\/strong> hyperalgesia<\/a> that occur in many patients suffering from chronic pain such as fibromyalgia, migraine, chronic pelvic pain, etc.. We must remember that hyperalgesia<\/a> is the increase of pain sensitivity to a low pain stimulus, which means that those who suffer from this disorder have a decreased pain threshold, while allodynia <\/strong> is an increase of pain sensitivity to a low pain stimulus, which means that those who suffer from this disorder have a decreased pain threshold. <\/strong> perception of pain towards stimuli that are not painful, for example, the pain that occurs with the rubbing of the sheets. Both disorders make it difficult to rest, and a vicious circle is produced that makes pain and insomnia worse. <\/strong><\/p> \n \n

The relationship is quite evident, and its connotations with clearly negative on several levels. Lack of sleep or poor rest<\/a> can, among other things: <\/p> \n \n