the simple story of a bookmark list

Posted: 24/04/2013 | Author: | Filed under: abdominal pain, chronic pain, functional abdominal pain, paediatric pain services, pain management, symptoms, treatment, what is FAP? | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

i started off this post wanting to discuss an article – a piece of research from The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton – that looked at a number of children with chronic abdominal pain, localised in lower right-hand quarter of the abdomen. appendicitis had been ruled out in these children, (as with my daughter), but they continued to have disabling pain for months, sometimes years after that. the hospital decided these children should be offered an appendectomy after all – and, in something like 80-90% of cases, the pain resolved post operation.**

can i find this piece of research now?

no.

my firefox bookmarks are in one long, jumbled list.

looking through my bookmarks makes salutary reading. they go from listing things such as How to Cook the Perfect Yule Log, The Universal Language of Lullabies, Descartes and Cartesian Coordinates, and Did Manet Have a Secret Son? to bookmarks almost entirely focused on pain – causes of pain, types of pain, pain relief, therapy. from the third week of January, any preoccupation with cookery or Descartes or art or music ends. it’s all set out in one simple, stark list:

Recurrent abdominal pain in children

Mesenteric Adenitis

Action on Pain

Joint Hypermobility and Functional Bowel Disorders

Torsion of parietal-peritoneal fat mimicking acute appendicitis: a case report

Joint Hypermobility Syndrome Pain

Visceral Pain (Organ Pain) vs Parietal Pain, Somatic Pain, Causes

…i could go on…but i won’t.

**i found the article, published in 2010: Diagnostic Laparoscopy and Appendicectomy for Children with Chronic Right Iliac Fossa Pain – An Aggregate Analysis – ‘Symptomatic improvement can be expected to be 88% immediately and up to 100% in the long term.’ published by the Journal of Paediatric Surgical Specialities