nerve blocks & sex

[hope4eva]

do nerve blocks take the feeling of sex away ? i can have a normal orgasm and may or may not have pudendal or other nerve damage im just wondering if anyone that had blocks done was sex the same after does the block take the feeling away or make everything better ?

[hope4eva]

anyone? by the way past few days have been very painful much worse and dont know why ,i cant do much of anything like this ,im scared cuz i dont know why i got worse and will this calm down

[janetm2]

I am sorry to hear you are feeling worse while trying to figure out what is wrong and get treament. Unfortunately I cannot answer your question as it has been years since I tried sex and now post surgery I am still waiting to see how much better I will get before trying that. I can say I do not feel the nerve blocks had adverse effects but Ii know others experienced pain flares up to I think a few weeks after the nerve block. Mine we just diagnostic relieving pain for a couple hours and helped confirm my left side was entrapped. I hope someone can answer your question about sex before and aftera nerve block. I just did not want you think we are ignoring you.
Janet

[Violet M]

Typically the anesthetic from the nerve block should wear off within 24 hours and you shouldn't have any more problems with sex than you did before the nerve block. Some people have a temporary flare-up for several weeks after a nerve block but usually that wears off in a few weeks. We have heard several reports of patients who felt they got permanently worse from a nerve block but this is unusual. Nerve blocks help some people improve but they don't help everyone. We don't hear of very many nerve block success stories on the forum, unfortunately. Hope this answers your question.

Violet M

[hope4eva]

thanks i was wondering nerve blocks seem scarey ,i would like to try pt 1st but have no way of making a commute every wk to someone specialized enough to do it ,i feel lost cuz im not sure whats causeing my pain and i have gotten worse

[helenlegs 11]

I would look through the symptoms on the home page here and check off any that are relevant to you. It doesn't need to be the full list it may only be one or two symptoms that match. That could be an indication of a pudendal neuralgia. If you can get to see specialised PT they may know someone closer to you who can help. I'm sure it would help even if you were to go a few times it would at least give an indication if pelvic floor muscles are involved as this can often be an easier problem to treat, and there is usually a good outcome.
In the mean time have you got any medication in place? if your issues are typicaly nerve related, burning , itching, numbness, shooting pain. (see home page again) get a prescription for medication that could help. Anti depressants and anti convulsants are a usual combination.There is a lot of medication information here
http://www.pudendalhope.info/node/20
Take care,
Helen

[hope4eva]

thanks i do have some symptoms of pn such as genital pain it is burning and sharp and moves around sometimes it will be in clitoral area and other times lately severe burning around outside of vaginal hole where hair is hard to say where is it lol but ive tried pt with a reg therapist who doesnt know much about pn she didnt help me much the deep breathing and stretches help a lil but not significantly the stretch r from amy steins book i do them but not as much as she says i think there great but not many people have time to stretch a half hr 4 times a day my pt didnt address my deep pelvic pain i also have with a constant feeling of having to pee she would insert a finger and my pain is very deep like 8 inches up or so its very high in pelvic floor i told all my docs this from uro to ob im aware pt dosent go that far up so mayb its my bladder .I tried elival.topamax lyrica and gabentin all with no relieve and bad side effects ,i do an diet for ic which my uro thinks i have and it helps a bit but i still get deep pain once or twice a wk its a stabbing burning at very end of pelvic floor if i was to insert a 8 inch dialater i can pinpoint it but im scared cuz i dont wanna hit an organ i have done this once though and found where pain is also if i kegal i feel pain in same area it is so deep pt lady didnt wanna go there as far as genital pain it wasent this bad when i saw her .thanks far advice all of this started after the birth of my 1 year old daughter 6 wks post partum

[helenlegs 11]

I wonder if you would be able to find out where this sore spot is if you took a look at pelvic diagrams and video's? I have a constantly sore spot which I now know is where all of my pelvic problems stem from. Plus the spot you mention does seem higher up and the pain you experience is always below this point? If so, as your pain is distal to that spot, it could relate to nerve pain as that is the way nerve pain works.
If you want to try and research this yourself, although it is often really difficult, take a look at the anatomy page within the home pages. there is an excellent interactive 'atlas of the female pelvis' https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/hs/me ... index.html
I was wondering too, if a sacroiliac belt would help you? Because your problems started after childbirth your ligaments may still be lax. I know this happened to a friend of mine, although her third child. The belt along side some physiotherapy worked for her. I must admit that I don't think she had any nerve pathology more a pelvic ache.
Would you say that the spot is more in the mid section of your pelvis, in cross-section? or more towards the back or sides? If slightly towards the back the sacrotuberous and sacrospinous ligaments are worth taking a look at. I'm probably way off the mark with all of this but it is unusual for people to have a defined point of pain (as well as the rest of course) that responds to pressure. I know that when I discovered where mine was (the piriformis muscle) it was a total revelation and everything made such sense after that.
I suppose this spot could be a muscle trigger point either I guess , however I would have thought that 8 inches up wouldn't be the pelvic floor??
Hope |I haven't confused the situation further but if you could discover what/where this spot is it may be as much of a eureka moment as it was for me.
Take care,
Helen

[hope4eva]

I will consider the belt I've never heard of it b4 ? My pt mentioned ligaments 2 me one time. The deep pain is directly in spot & it is very deep but if I kegal I feel it in same spot this also moves around a bit sometimes in front others in back and sometimes directly everywhere in area. It may not b pelvic floor but since I feel it with kegals I assume its at very end if it the only pain I have below the deep pain is genital & its killer though

[Violet M]

Eva, the ischial spine is high up in the vagina and sort of to the side. That is where the pudendal nerve runs. If that is where your deep pain is, it could be the pudendal nerve. That was my worst area of pain. I also had that constant urge to pee. Even if you can't commute to regular PT from a PT who specializes in PN -- maybe you could at least get a one time evaluation for a better diagnosis.

Violet