"episodic pain" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe pain that is sudden, recurring, and often unexpected. For example, "Patients with fibromyalgia often experience bouts of episodic pain."
However, due to unexpected changes in control group conditions, both groups increased episodic pain assessment.
Mutations in TRPA1 cause the familial episodic pain syndrome (FEPS) (Kremeyer et al. 2010).
The basis for this grouping was that the episodic pain patients are pain-free most of the time.
Interestingly, a familial episodic pain syndrome has been attributed to a gain of function mutation of TRPA1 TRPA1 [71].
The majority of orofacial pain is continuous so a history of episodic pain narrows down the differentials.
When sustained-release (SR) opioids do not provide adequate background analgesia, additional immediate-release (IR) opioid (e.g. short-acting morphine) may be required to alleviate breakthrough or episodic pain.
This gives rise to fever and episodic pains in the chest, abdomen, or joints that are difficult to distinguish from the effects of other diseases.
Different personality profiles might be explained as a response to continued exposure to pain, as it would occur in chronic forms, or to the risk of sudden intense pain, as would happen in episodic pains [46].
Furthermore, there are concerns regarding the use of opiates for short term incident or episodic pains [ 42], like the breakthrough pain provoked by movement described by Greenstreet [ 21].
Quality of life is deteriorated by episodic, debilitating pain associated with substantial analgesic use, frequent hospitalization for pain episodes, and ultimately organ failure.
This might lead to a wrong diagnosis: physicians who investigating a case of episodic head/facial pain syndrome should always seek to establish whether the patient also experiences a lower intensity pain.
