These pages will provide you with supportive pain management advice, strategies, and useful information to help you manage your pain successfully while waiting for an appointment.

Please use the menu on the right to navigate this section of the website.

After reading the information on these pages, you may decide that you no longer need your pain clinic appointment. If this is the case, please contact our department to cancel as soon as possible.

What is pain?

Pain can be a warning sign for other harm occurring in the body. There are many common causes for why you may suffer pain and any disease or cause must be identified (if it can be) to help you access the right treatment. 

There are, however, instances where the cause cannot be remedied without specific medication, intervention, or treatment, or the cause cannot be identified with a scan or blood test. These types of pain will not directly harm you but can impair your quality of life. 

Everybody's pain is different and pain can differ depending on factors such as its cause, how you feel it, whether you get respite, if it affects your sleep, what you are trying to achieve or manage in life, and how it affects you mentally.

Resources

• Flippin' Pain (flippinpain.co.uk)
• Pain Toolkit - Pain Self Management by Pete Moore

Managing your appointment

To request to reschedule or cancel your appointment, visit the 'Changing your appointment' page.