# Knowing your aches and pains

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637 "2017-09-06T12:35:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637/1 "2017-09-06T12:35:21Z")

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I started noticing about 20 years ago that when a skeletal pain of some kind (knee, back, shoulder) gets so bad I can’t stand it anymore it is signaling me that the next day it will be better. At first I thought it was coincidence, a pain would get so bad I would almost feel like I needed to go to ER for pain treatment, I would set a Dr. appt. but the pain would be gone before my Appt. Lately I have come to rely on this and it seems to never fail. It might take 2 weeks for a pain to finally get to the point I can no longer stand it but like clockwork the next day it will be gone.

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Anyone else have this same experience, my GF laughs about it but it never seems to fail.
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**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637/2 "2017-09-06T15:32:23Z")

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I can understand that. I get pain pills and injections to control my pains. Sometimes I get severe pains that I thought the injections wore too soon but goes away hours later or the next day.

I considered them flare ups.

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**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637/3 "2017-09-06T16:52:58Z")

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The same thing for me. If I strain my back the pain will start slowly in the lower back, and spread up to the shoulders and down the arms over the course of a few days (or weeks in a really bad case) and then fade away. I have also made a Dr appt, only to have the pain fade away by the time the appt actually rolls around.

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**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/knowing-your-aches-and-pains/795637/4 "2017-09-06T21:49:45Z")

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I used to have that before I have treatments but it was from the neck/shoulders down to the legs. Weird.