After living with chronic pain for the last nine years, I've found there is a lot of misconceptions when it comes to understanding chronic, rather than acute, pain. So here are ten things I wish family, friends and health professionals would know about chronic pain. 1. Not every day is the same but every pain we are in pain . Able-bodied people can find it difficult to understand how chronic pain can differ so much from day to day - from degree of pain, to kind of pain, to th