The pediatric gastroenterologist told us that our 7 year old suffers from RAP. I had never heard of it. Are there any parents who can give me information about this? I am mostly curious about pain management and how it will develop in the future. Our son has it bad because his pain is there for more than 5 month in a row and is on a daily dose of Motrim. Are there any good web sites about this? I didn't really find a lot of info on the web. So please, if you know anything about......
Thanks for your help.

Is there a history of migraines in the family?

If so, then I think you might find that looking under stomach or abdominal migraine will be more helpful to you, as recurrent abdominal pain is more likely to be due to this.

Basically, what happens is that there is a history of migraines within the family and children, rather than getting the normal migraine headaches will get the migraines, but as bellyache instead. They will go pale and could even vomit and will have this severe belly pain, rather than the classic headache. This will last for the same amount of time and should be treated in the same way as common migraine.

I do not think that it is linked to IBS, but either more to these migraines or stress and anxiety, which can play a large part and especially at that age, when kids will sometimes keep things to themselves a lot.

Good luck