Hi Peter,
I can now rest assured that you feel my pain about being in so much pain, as its so painful being in this state of pain it must be a pain just reading this as it is sure is painful me writing it, pain pain pain.
Yours,
Pain
PS
pain |pān|
noun
1 physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury: she's in great pain | those who suffer from back pain | chest pains.
• mental suffering or distress: the pain of loss.
• (also pain in the neck or vulgar slang pain in the *** ) [ in sing. ] informal an annoying or tedious person or thing: she's a pain.
2 (pains) careful effort; great care or trouble: she took pains to see that everyone ate well | he is at pains to point out that he isn't like that.
verb [ with obj. ]
cause mental or physical pain to: it pains me to say this | her legs had been paining her.
• [ no obj. ] (of a part of the body) hurt: sometimes my right hand would pain.
PHRASES
for one's pains informal as an unfairly bad return for efforts or trouble: he was sued for his pains.
no pain, no gain suffering is necessary in order to achieve something.
[originally used as a slogan in fitness classes.]
on (or under ) pain of the penalty for disobedience or shortcoming being: all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment.
ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘suffering inflicted as punishment for an offense’): from Old French peine, from Latin poena ‘penalty,’ later ‘pain.’