Another option is to ask your doctor about medication. Sometimes, medicine such as antidepressants or tranquilizers can be helpful. Some of these medicines relieve pain in addition to their antidepressant effects. Fatigue can make it harder for you to deal with pain. When you are tired, you may not be able to cope with the pain as well as when you are rested.
Many people notice that pain seems to get worse as they get tired.
Lack of sleep can increase your pain. Be sure to tell your doctor or nurse if you have not been sleeping well because of pain or worry. If you have had an arm or leg removed by surgery, you may still feel pain or other unpleasant sensations as if they were coming from the absent limb. This also can occur if you have had a breast removed-you may have a sensation of pain in the missing breast. No single pain-relief method controls phantom limb pain in all patients all the time.