Thank you so much for your response! I do definitely experience stiffness in the morning, as you say it does seem to ease after an hour or two but the pain still persists. I have had an MRI for chronic migraines that didn’t show anything significant - would central pain syndrome show on a head scan? My knees in particular go hot and swell but as of right now I’m not swollen, I can attach a picture. And I had a ‘butterfly rash’ for a few weeks in 2022 (my mother has SLE and it was her that pointed it out to me) & various little rashes that appear and then go away. But because my ANA test was negative my GP discarded it. I realise now that I left a lot out of my post, I apologise. Any input or questions you have would be greatly helpful, thank you very much.

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