been tracking both since early may. i’ll have a flare, pain at like 7/10, can’t work for days. then it shifts. pain drops back to baseline, 4/10, within a week.
but my mood? still in the basement. brain fog stays. i realized around week two of feeling physically better that my depression operates on a totally different timeline.
it’s probably central sensitization stuff - how chronic pain rewires depression alongside it. but it creates this weird gap. i’ll be pain-free and still feel wrecked, and trying to make sense of that gap makes it worse. how long does your mood usually lag behind when the pain actually improves?