With the acute pain, it is a type of pain that is triggered by tissue damage. However with acute pain, the source is obvious and the pain eventually fades away. Contrastly chronic pain is a type of pain that can result from injury or it can occur for no apparent reason. Such is the case with the chronic pain that is experienced by mnay porphyria patients. It can occur for no apparent reason.
Chronic pain can be mild or severe.
It can hurt all the time, or it can come and go. Unlike acute pain, it is often more difficult to find a cause for chronic pain. In addition chronic pain can last an indefinite period of time, in some cases years or decades. With the upper right quadrantr abdominal pain which is experienced by so many porphyria patients, usually in a matter of hours of the administration of glucose, pain will subside or go into complete remission. Neuropathic pain is also a part of porphyria.