What do you do when you feel pain?
What do you do when you have pain? Do you go immediately and take a pain reliever or do you go to the doctor's office?
What should be done in the first instance is to find out the cause of the pain and then proceed to calm it, which you will only know if you go to the doctor.
If it’s a pain in the back that is reflected in the abdominal area you should find out where specifically the pain is, if it can be found that is, after specifying the place where it comes from you then determine how frequent the pain is, how intense and the type of pain.
Frequency refers to how and when we feel that pain, if it’s a pain that begins and then ends only to start again or if it’s a constant pain that does not subside. In that case it’s known as a “colicky pain.”
The type of pain consists of specifying how the pain feels, a burning sensation or a stabbing one, maybe it’s more like a squeezing pain, a feeling of tightness.
All of this is important when visiting the doctor, as this makes the diagnosis of the pathology that is causing pain easier.
For example: if you have a pain in the back that is colicky, that is, comes and goes, it doesn’t subside when you change the position of your body, we have a kidney pain.
Now, if the pain is similar to the previous one but when you change to a different position the pain calms then we can affirm that we are facing pain in the spine due to lumbar trauma.
There are other details that the doctor will ask about and will serve as a complement to the ones before to facilitate a good diagnosis.
Of course, when it comes to the diseases of a patient, two similar things will not necessarily get the same diagnosis.
After determining what type of pain is causing the problem, we can prepare to give pain relievers.
This is an example of the pain in the back that is the most typical in patients in daily emergency rooms.
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