Insomnia caused by pain

It’s almost 2 am and I still have not gone to bed nor do I think I will in the next hour. Pain is keeping me up and apparently I am not alone. My CES friends on Facebook and I have been chatting most of the night, not really complaining because we all know why we are up: PAIN. I find it sad that people with this condition lose sleep most of the night and most of the time because of PAIN. It sucks yet no one seems to care. We tell our doctors about our pain but they don’t really do anything about it. They might prescribe us sleep aids that don’t work or give us terrible side effects, such as sleep walking around the house, bumping into things as they go. Then they awake in the morning and have no idea why they have so many bruises on them. I have a friend in England who if she takes too much of sleep aids she hallucinates and has full fledged conversations and actions without her realizing it to other people and such. It scares her every time. And I don’t blame her. It sounds more terrifying than my voices.
This is what CES and CRPS does to you.  My left foot was cold as ice and swelled to the point of pain. So I put a sock on it but now the sock is bothering me, to the point of it feeling like it is strangling my ankle but my foot is still cold and I know the pain will get worse if I take it off. So I live with the strangling sensation. I got to take another dose of my medicine to calm down the pain because it’s been more than four hours since I last took it and I am still in pain. I should have been asleep at least three hours ago. But again, when the pain is stronger than the pain meds, you don’t get relief. The pain meds are not going to do anything for my foot feeling ice cold but at least it will hopefully space me out enough for me to go see Morpheus. I forgot what he looks like I haven’t seen him in so long. I think it’s funny that the god of dreams is called Morpheus and then you have morphine that is a high pain reliever drug. Maybe they are related. I don’t know. I have only been on morphine once after surgery and then had to be taken off because of bad side effects (it caused big time urine retention). And that was over a decade ago so I don’t remember how it made me feel. I know it took care of the pain like it was supposed to.
But I digress…I have my sleep machine on and I think I will get off of the laptop and try and go to sleep before it becomes six in the morning…