Health Organization for Pudendal Education

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Hi AL,

I can't speak from experience, but you might want to read the section in the Nantes Criteria article that has the heading: Pain with No Objective Sensory Impairment

https://www.pudendalhope.info/wp-conten ... iteria.pdf

The article was written a few years back so, I don't know, maybe the surgeon who is recommending surgery knows something new.

Does the surgeon who says you absolutely have a nerve compression have any statistics on how many surgeries he's done to relieve such suspected compressions for loss of sensation, and what the success rate is?

I know it's always difficult weighing the risk vs. the benefit when considering surgery. Is your quality of life so bad that you willing to risk possible worse symptoms as opposed to permanent numbness. It can be an agonizing decision.

There's a guy who posted about some success a little while back with username Staypositive. You might want to do an advanced search on his posts (in the upper right corner). I think he posted 19 times.

Violet

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AL456 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:56 pm

When they say "pain with no objective sensory impairment", they are referring to numbness as not being part of the criteria?

That's a good question. If you read farther down in the article It does list numbness as one of the complementary criteria. So, I'm not sure what they mean by no objective sensory impairment but apparently it doesn't include numbness.