Get a Pudendal Nerve Block!
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2024 3:33 pm
If you think your pudendal nerve is entrapped between your sacrospinous and sacrotuberous ligaments (*), as mine was, find yourself a competent physician who will:
1) give you a diagnostic injection using radiographic guidance (do not bother with steroids; they won’t help at all)
2) put you under mild (twilight) sedation during the procedure
If your pain goes away for several hours, then this very powerful evidence which you should present to Dr. Hibner (who, as of 2022, was one of only four surgeons in the world who performed his unentrapment procedure).
(*) My symptoms were relentless agony, 24/7/365, at the *exact* point where you might imagine this may be. Unilateral (in my case), and as deep as you can possibly imagine, no matter the entry point. If you have this pain, and it won’t go away no matter what you do, get the injection.
1) give you a diagnostic injection using radiographic guidance (do not bother with steroids; they won’t help at all)
2) put you under mild (twilight) sedation during the procedure
If your pain goes away for several hours, then this very powerful evidence which you should present to Dr. Hibner (who, as of 2022, was one of only four surgeons in the world who performed his unentrapment procedure).
(*) My symptoms were relentless agony, 24/7/365, at the *exact* point where you might imagine this may be. Unilateral (in my case), and as deep as you can possibly imagine, no matter the entry point. If you have this pain, and it won’t go away no matter what you do, get the injection.