I don't have extreme physical pain, but I do have chronic pain in the form of a constant, low-to-medium grade headache that sometimes turns into a crippling mig

I don't have extreme physical pain, but I do have chronic pain in the form of a constant, low-to-medium grade headache that sometimes turns into a crippling migraine-like pain for a few days. It flares with weather changes and stress, but on a 1-10 pain scale it's a 3-4 every day of the week 24/7. At times it surges to a 7-10. There is nothing modern medicine can do for me but turn my consciousness off -- which I refuse to accept. I've learned to tune it out, but the fatigue it creates is sometimes overwhelming and I find myself crashing frequently on whatever surface I can find to rest on. I struggle mightily in the mornings to make it to work. When I was in my teens I was part of an NIH study into chronic headaches, but doctors in general waive it away or don't know what to do about it. Constant back and neck stretches and 800mg of Ibuprofen daily seem to be the only things that alleviate it somewhat, bringing the average from a 4 out of 10 to a 3 out of 10. Strangely, the first time I went headache free in my adult life was a week-long period in the Bay Area when I was interviewing for a few jobs. The headaches went away for a few glorious days I felt what it felt like to be "me", unencumbered by chronic pain for the first time in my adult life. It was absolutely glorious. I sometimes wakeup, in soaked sheets, sweating about the bizarreness of dreaming about that week. I once had a root canal without anesthetic, because it wouldn't take effect -- tuned it out -- I have nightmares still from the experience. But I didn't get the jobs, I live on the East Coast, and despite a strange semi-immunity to anesthetic, probably a result of the same condition and genetics (I can get a cavity filled by using the same "tune it out" mental skills I learned dealing with absolutely disabling head pain) without fighting over if the anesthetic is working or not. Most dentists have no idea why the novocain isn't working. My mother has an unspecified autoimmune disease that causes her global minor joint pain. Whatever she has, I'm sure I inherited it. Medical practitioners are universally unable to do anything at all about it. I sometimes drink too much so I can sleep once or twice a week despite (to spite) the pain. It sucks and I hate it and I wish I had gotten those jobs in SV even if it meant I had one week a year, pain free. But now COVID-19 so....