YOU ARE ALL SO AWESOME!

[carolynm]

Ladies and Gents,
Thanks to your posts I have self-diagnosed myself early and am playing the dr. roulette game. After spending an hour wielding a pickaxe while doing yardwork, I found myself with numbess to the lower back and perineum. After a couple of days it turned into pain. I have received a L4-5 injection with no relief, a caudal injection yesterday with 3 hours of blissful numbess, a physical therapy appt with her fingers up my hoo-hoo, and a visit to a neurologist who did a rectal exam to palpate my coccyx.....I AM SO DEPRESSED!

I have 2 small children, ages 2 and 1, and cannot even consider surgery due to the lifting restrictions.

PLAN: To Denver in August for an US-guided block at the Centeno-Schultz Pain Center, and a consult in late August with Dr. Ronald Gibbs at the University of Colorado specializing in pelvic pain.

Anyone out there in Colorado as well with some suggestions for PT's, etc?

Your posts have kept me going for weeks now. Thanks to each one of you.

cari

[Celeste]

As I recall, Chloe is in Colorado. You might send her a PM.

[janetm2]

Welcome Carolyn,
If you go to the home page and click on the list of PTs on the left and work your way to North America then USA there are a few PTs listed in Colorado. I am in Maryland so I am I only know what is listed but someone from there may reply to you. I know this is a difficult time and glad you realize we are friends and here to help. Having young ones is hard with a possibility of surgery but even without it is best to limit the lifting, carrying, etc. After surgery for me and I am still trying to keep myself in check, we are getting a new refrigerator with freezer on the bottom so I hope that helps having the fruit veggie drawers up higher. It is tough to rearrange your life but we do. Hang in there and hope you get answers and info soon to help you.
Janet

[Violet M]

Welcome, Cari. I live one state south of you and I've wielded a few pickaxes myself doing yard work. Nasty soil in our part of the country I guess.

You mentioned numbness in your lower back as well as the perineum so I was wondering how you have narrowed your diagnosis down to pudendal neuralgia as opposed to a problem originating higher up in your spine. Did the PT check your pelvic alignment and for SI joint dysfunction?

Sorry about your husband not understanding. Maybe it would help if he read this article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/54832.php

Violet

[Lernica]

Great article, Violet! Well done.

[carolynm]

Violet,

Thanks for your reply. I have had an MRI of Lumbar and Pelvis so I know there is no abnormalities there. All the symptoms match PN. I will read your article next!

cari