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I am new to the site and really hope you can share your experiences or offer me advice as this is making me feel suicidal at the moment.
I gave birth 4 months ago. It was a traumatic delivery as my baby had shoulder dystocia and a huge head measuring at 16 inches. My poor baby was stillborn. No instruments were used to deliver him but I had a 4th degree tear. It was fixed by a colorectal. Both obgyn as well as colorectal told me I would make a full recovery. However I'm starting to think that won't ever happen.
About 3 weeks after I started feeling a strange sensation like there was something up my rectum. Luckily that has subsided. However I get itching when I walk for for more than 15 minutes and sometimes when I walk at all. The other day I try to take a walk around town and I got anal stings. Like a salt in fissure or bee sting type sensation up my anus/rectum. It hurt so bad I didn't want to continue waking. I almost cried. I also experience a crawling ants type sensation when I sit down after I walk. I went to see a urogynacologist who dismissed me and said it was because I had surgery there and that I might have a hypertonic pelvic floor. She recommended me to see a pelvic floor fysio therapist, however the fysio therapist told me I don't have a hypertonic pelvic floor at all. I've been at it for 8 weeks now. The exercises are helping me become more flexibele but have done nothing for the itch/stingy pains.
It making me so horribly miserable and thinking I will never be able to go on a nature walk again, let alone have a living child.
Do you think the scar tissue from the tear or the stitching has entrapped the nerve? I'm only 32. I'm worried I will have this forever. I live in Belgium. Helpful for any advice.
if physio isn’t helping as much as you hoped, maybe a pain specialist could offer different treatment options for the nerve pain and discomfort you're feeling
I should probably see one yes. Or perhaps a colorectal again.