Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Hello everyone! Quick update from me, five years after bilateral arthroscopic hip surgeries to repair labral tears, FAI and loose cartilage from joints. I am 100% pain free, can sit as long as I like, have intercourse, and exercise, even lift weights and ride a bike! The hip surgeries were key to my...

I had a very sore and tight obturator internus muscle for a couple of years. My pelvic physiotherapist worked on it for about a year, massaging it internally. She also taught me how to massage it myself with a crystal wand (which is available on Amazon). Are there any pelvic therapists in the UK tha...

LL, Your positive experience with Dr. Andrew was the same as mine. He was a beacon of hope in a sea of uncertainty and despair and doubt. And I have read both books by Dr. Doidge and found them fascinating about the way the brain rewires itself in cases of chronic pain. The Canadian Broadcasting Cor...

If you are experiencing pain walking, you might want to consider having your hips checked out for any pathology. My PN journey began -- and ended -- with the hips! At first it hurt to jog, then it hurt to walk, and then I developed PN. It took ten years for me to discover that I had bad hips all alo...

Melanie,

For what it's worth, I too was diagnosed with endometriosis (stage IV - extensive). I took Lupron injections for nine months and then had a hysterectomy. Neither had any effect whatsoever in reducing my PN pain.

Best wishes,
Lernica

Julia, Please do consider taking Lorraine's course! It connected so many dots for me and helped me understand -- and overcome -- the body-mind connection in chronic pelvic pain. Also, who is prescribing your clonazepam? Your family doc? Have you considered seeing a psychiatrist instead? S/he could h...

Hey Julia, All your current symptoms sounds exactly the same as mine were. It took one year after the second hip surgery for the PN pain to subside. I had many many ups and downs, many flare-ups, many tears shed at the PTs, lots of frustration. Be patient and know that over time your body will heal....

Hello everyone, I haven't posted for over a year, since I started to feel better. I am now completely pain-free, I can have sex, I can lift weights, I can walk up to 1.5 hours, I can wear tight leggings (but will never go back to tight jeans), I can ride a bike. My PN days are now just a distant mem...

Patty, I think that if the colonoscopy were the triggering event, it would have been very painful for you. But it sounds like you didn't experience any pain. I have had many colonoscopies, each of them exquisitely painful. I haven't heard of a colonoscopy causing PN, but it can certainly aggravate i...

Oh my gosh, I can't even tell you how many ups and downs I had! Recovery from labral hip surgery is NOT a linear event! I remember thinking, four months post-op on my second hip, that I would never get better. I was in SO much pain. You are only 2.5 months post-op! Please have patience. You will get...