Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Hi all There`s lots of news from this end, my steroid jab into the sacroiliac is on Monday. I`m to go to our local city hospital as a day release patient, with my daughter or husband picking me up later. The info says it`s common for the pain to flare after the injection, so I`m glad I`m aware of th...

Hi Jessicac I`m UK based too and not nearly as knowledgeable as the team on here who`ll give you some invaluable advise- but here goes with my penny worth. After 10 months of horrible PN symptoms, it`s thought my pain`s coming from my sacroiliac joint and I`m due a steroid injection in the joint. I`...

Sorry for the delay in answering Karyn. I`m not sure exactly what medication the doctor will use, he just said steroid. I received a very nice letter from him today ( a copy has gone to my GP) saying it will be an xray guided injection. quoting from his letter: `Joy is suffering from a deeply intrus...

Hi All An update on my diagnosis journey: As planned I went to the pain clinic today and saw a lovely doctor. He got out his display skeleton of the lower back and showed how my main pain is exactly in front of the arthritic sacriolliac joint. Which come to think of it, it is! Say, if the stabbing l...

Hi Helen I`m angry for you, and for all the years you`ve had wasted running around trying to get well again. Actually, thanks :x you`ve done me a favour because I`ve a GP appointment this morning at 10.30 and after reading this, I`ll hopefully still be riled enough to bring out my assertive side and...

Just when I was getting somewhere.....my GP says he cannot refer me to Dr Greenslade until we have exhausted all local resources!!! I only managed a telephone appointment with him to hear this `delightful` news and never got to the bit about WHAT local resources? And what`s made the news worse is aw...

Thank you Violet I`m compiling all this info on PN and Maignes to discuss with my GP. Because my physio came to the diagnosis that the pudendal nerve is causing me problems - without any help or prompting from me lol- I`m determined to get this sorted now that I have `professional` back up. I believ...

Thank you Violet. I went to my physio yesterday, she had another look at my back and found that around the T12 area I was rock solid ( her words). I`m learning a little bit of knowledge but isn`t that the Maigne`s area? Considering my initial pain mimiced renal colic where I was admitted to hospital...

Thank you Karyn
even more to think about in that article.
take care
Joy

Hi Helen and thanks again so much for your help and advice. After mulling it over, I`m taking your advice and continue chasing the pudendal nerve diagnosis rather than let the docs decide it`s my back - and as you say getting stuck with that diagnosis. After all it`s no good my coming on here and as...