Please help?? New person.
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:13 am
Oh boy. I suffered an injury in Sept. 2013 that went undiagnosed (radiologist missed it) and since have had increasing muscle dysfunction in the pelvis. Can't urinate or defecate at this point, have been in the hospital twice (different hospitals) to look for cauda equina syndrome, but the spinal nerves and even the brain are normal. Something is disrupting any ability to use the muscles normally in the pelvis, especially on the right side.
The diagnosis/structural damage: hamstring tendinosis and tear to hamstring tendon at insertion point (ischial tuberosity) on the right leg, and torn labrum on the right side.
I have had this hip act up since I was a kid, and when it flared when I was 19 I ended up with interstitial cystitis, but have pretty much ignored that for 20 years. I didn't have terrible symptoms, and only now have become unable to really use my bladder. I have to push on it from my abdomen to get it to empty unless I can get the muscles in the pelvis to actually spasm, in which case I can urinate and defecate a bit better. It feels like there are cat claws in the area around the bladder and above and to the right of there, or else it all goes numb. My doctors are doing NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. I see a new one tomorrow at 11, a urogynocologist. I'm just upset, because I wasn't even having these symptoms until month 4 of the undiagnosed injury. I called a neighbor who is a doctor and he said there is no way this is not the pudendal nerve somehow not working correctly, and that it is effected by the hamstring attachment area. He said to just demand treatment and that something be done ASAP, but I've done that since October, to no avail. I couldn't even get a proper read of a hip MRI until last week with a new MRI at a different hospital. They let me go home despite not being able to pee or poop, and never sent in a urologist. THey did less at the other hospital in December (I missed Christmas to be in a hospital with no one doing anything for me!). At least these guys diagnosed a hip injury.
Please help, I was walking 6-8 miles a day and doing a lot of self-defense training when this happened (and for years previous), have (HAD) a very, very healthy sex life and was a happy, cheerful person. This is destroying my ability to do anything. Well, I can't even lay down, sit, walk or pee, and the orthos won't see me until the nerve issue is resolved. But no one will write a referral for that EMG! I'm being ignored into disability.
P.S. the first person I saw for the minor hip pain was a chiropractor, and they think he tore the labrum shoving my hip down where he said it "should be". Probably tore the hamstring trying to keep going with a torn labrum. It likely doesn't matter either way, but wouldn't mind any advice I can get. Help!?!?!?
The diagnosis/structural damage: hamstring tendinosis and tear to hamstring tendon at insertion point (ischial tuberosity) on the right leg, and torn labrum on the right side.
I have had this hip act up since I was a kid, and when it flared when I was 19 I ended up with interstitial cystitis, but have pretty much ignored that for 20 years. I didn't have terrible symptoms, and only now have become unable to really use my bladder. I have to push on it from my abdomen to get it to empty unless I can get the muscles in the pelvis to actually spasm, in which case I can urinate and defecate a bit better. It feels like there are cat claws in the area around the bladder and above and to the right of there, or else it all goes numb. My doctors are doing NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING. I see a new one tomorrow at 11, a urogynocologist. I'm just upset, because I wasn't even having these symptoms until month 4 of the undiagnosed injury. I called a neighbor who is a doctor and he said there is no way this is not the pudendal nerve somehow not working correctly, and that it is effected by the hamstring attachment area. He said to just demand treatment and that something be done ASAP, but I've done that since October, to no avail. I couldn't even get a proper read of a hip MRI until last week with a new MRI at a different hospital. They let me go home despite not being able to pee or poop, and never sent in a urologist. THey did less at the other hospital in December (I missed Christmas to be in a hospital with no one doing anything for me!). At least these guys diagnosed a hip injury.
Please help, I was walking 6-8 miles a day and doing a lot of self-defense training when this happened (and for years previous), have (HAD) a very, very healthy sex life and was a happy, cheerful person. This is destroying my ability to do anything. Well, I can't even lay down, sit, walk or pee, and the orthos won't see me until the nerve issue is resolved. But no one will write a referral for that EMG! I'm being ignored into disability.
P.S. the first person I saw for the minor hip pain was a chiropractor, and they think he tore the labrum shoving my hip down where he said it "should be". Probably tore the hamstring trying to keep going with a torn labrum. It likely doesn't matter either way, but wouldn't mind any advice I can get. Help!?!?!?