 Take us through a day. What sorts of things do you do in your daily routine? And how would this pain, these headaches, affect that? Chronic pain is slippery. It's very tricky. For me, chronic pain doesn't mean that I have it every moment of every day. For me, I think of it like waves. Sometimes it gets really close and up on the shore. Sometimes it's a little further out, but it never really goes away.