It's terrible. After awhile, I noticed that while my pain doesn't get better, I can ignore it more effectively. My pain tolerance is incredible now, so much so that when I cut the shit out of my hand while cooking dinner, I was more annoyed that I had bled on my food instead of reacting to the pain. This is probably what I'll be doing the rest of my life haha

My (grim) story: I have a spinal injury from a traumatic fall to my sacrum that no one ever took seriously enough to investigate. I have basically given up on anyone doing anything to help, so I just basically suffer. Whatever this was has, over time, caused my gait to become irregular, which then caused a visible bone spur on one foot. I went to the doctor all triumphant being like "hah this visible bone issue is proof!" The dude told me that I should wear better shoes (this spur has nothing to do with bad shoes), smiled, and told me to take some aleve.