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I am a 47 year old male, I work in IT  involving sitting all day long,  and in my free time I was a avid cyclist and runner .I often ran more than 50 km a week and cycled  250 km in one week.Everybody should say ..you are very healthy . right ?? I remember the first time I felt ‘ it ‘  was almost 7 years ago in the beginning of October 2004. I still remember the date as the feeling has never left me since then. I first felt it when getting up from a normal (hard) chair and also a few…

Diagnosis Overview The sacrum, by virtue of its anatomic location, is a structure that presents itself to the attention of multiple medical specialists. This is why people with chronic pelvic pain will often visit many gynecologists, urologists, imaging specialists, gastroenterologists, neurologists and pain specialists before finding the correct diagnoses. Pudendal neuralgia is a rare condition, and it is seldom diagnosed correctly in a short period of time. Sadly, many people with pudendal neuralgia (PN), pudendal neuropathy (PN), or pudendal nerve entrapment (PNE) are still searching for answers within the medical system. Many are being misdiagnosed over and over, some even…

At the age of 31, I started to try and start a family with my husband. My first pregnancy was an ectopic pregnancy. I finally got pregnant at the age of 35. Me and my husband were so excited. What an amazing experience. The whole 9 months of my pregnancy felt almost like a small miracle. I never had any type of pelvic pain whatsoever, either prior to my pregnancy or while I was pregnant. My son was finally born in January of 2005. I had 2 epidurals for the pregnancy and he came out at 9lbs and 3oz., after…

Weightlifting and exercise are supposed to be good for you, right? So what could be better for keeping you young and fit when you turn 46 years old than to start working out? That’s what I used to think. A couple of months into my weightlifting program I noticed some twinges of pain that felt kind of like a toothache in the right posterior vaginal wall. My doctor passed it off as hemorrhoids so I thought, "OK, lots of people have hemorrhoids so I’ll just live with it." Over the next year the pain became more persistent until I had…

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See Dr. Vancaillie's comments on pudendal nerve blocks. See Dr. Zhou's and Violet Matthew's articles on nerve blocks.  How is the nerve located for a pudendal nerve block? In the context of PNE, a nerve block involves injecting a liquid at a precise location near a nerve. For a small nerve like the pudendal nerve, that takes slightly different paths in different people, this requires more than just studying a person's body and deciding where to insert the needle, at what angle, and how deep. It requires imaging of some type, such as Xray (fluoroscopy), MRI, ultrasound, or CT scan. Without…

See Article  Thoughts on Physical Therapy Physical therapy can be extremely important in treating pudendal neuralgia. The difficult part is trying to find a physical therapist who has knowledge and experience treating patients with pudendal neuropathy. For PNE patients, one thing to avoid with physical therapy is kegal exercises. With kegals, you work on strengthening the pelvic floor, but if you have pudendal neuralgia, your pelvic floor is already tight and the Kegal exercises would make them even tighter. Kegal exercises should be avoided until most of the PN symptoms have disappeared. You can start to work yourself up slowly…

Table of Contents What is it? Why is it done? How is it done? What are the limitations? What are the risks? What is it? Somatosensory Evoked Potential (SSEP) is a test showing the electrical signals of sensation going from the body to the brain. The signals show whether the nerves that connect to the spinal cord are able to send and receive sensory information like pain, temperature, and touch. When ordering electrical tests to diagnose spine problems, SSEP is combined with an electromyogram (EMG), a test of how well the nerve roots leaving the spine are working. Why is it…

Constant pain, no diagnosis, or treatment failure usually causes intense frustration, anger, denial, agression, depression, anxiety and other emotions. This receipt of bad news is all part of a perfectly predictable and normal pattern. It is nothing to be ashamed of or feel guilty about. But if it's never happened to you before, you may not recognize the pattern for what it is, and become trapped in a downward spiral of inability to deal with your problems. This pattern causes the average person to begin thinking irrationally and behaving abnormally. The pattern is called the Cycle of Acceptance, which is also sometimes referred to as the…