Pfizer has launched an online forum called The Pain Exchange, which has been designed to encourage conversations between people suffering from chronic pain.

Similar to Twitter, the descriptions should be 140 characters or less and can be rated on a pain severity scale. In addition, users are asked questions, such as age, gender, medical diagnosis etc, which will be compiled to help create a user generated database of chronic pain experiences.

One of the aims of the project is to enable people to better communicate their symptoms, by learning how others describe their pain, which should subsequently help GPs to diagnose and treat the condition during consultations.

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