Introduction to Pain

Pain episodes: Episodic headache, abdominal pain or limb pain are often present around school age. Since pain is mainly subjective, a detailed history and physical examination supplemented by necessary laboratory and imaging tests should be performed to rule out organic or functional lesions in patients with pain as the main complaint. In a few cases, pain may be a concomitant symptom of seizure, but it is rarely the main or only manifestation of seizure. Unless it is accompanied by other seizure symptoms and or) typical EEG epileptiform changes during the seizure period, it is not clinically appropriate to make the diagnosis of headache epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, and limb pain epilepsy.