Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Recommend anyone in UK thinking of pudendal surgery to read the BBC Papers review website for today. There is an article in the Guardian re concerns about a Bristol surgeon and pelvic surgery. It mainly covers rectal surgery but this surgeon has also done pudendal surgery. https://www.theguardian.co...

Just to add for the interest or benefit of anyone reading this thread that the doctor has said that i have a Urethral Caruncle or prolapse. She has put me back on the localised HRT oestrogen to try to close the caruncle up.
Rosemary

Thanks Nyt I have had oestrogen pessaries & creams along with pain medication in the past for the vulva pain problem. After over 3 years I stopped using it all as it was getting me nowhere and the cream causing more irritation. i guess i should have continued. I seem to have more stinging sore p...

Hi Could i please ask any older ladies on here if they have developed a Vaginal tear because of all the muscle tightening and if so what they have done about it ? I can now see that i have a small blood coloured tear midline in the vagina. I am off to see my doctor in a few days but i am sure it is ...

Hi Hopeful I am not often on this forum now but i think it is some time since Maryjane was on here so you may not get a reply to any pm. I will pm you the link to a UK Pelvic Pain Facebook forum which may be of help to you as well as this forum. I am in the UK but a bit wary of Facebook so not on it...

Thank you for the link Greentree i have read it and will look into it further. At the moment i am starting to cut out the gluten to try that. Don't know whether you are in the UK or not but there was a small trial done on a TV programme called "Trust Me I'm a Doctor" the other evening. Aft...

Thanks Violet and Grace My BMs are okish at the moment but i do wonder if nerves further up are affected and causing a back up somewhere. I am not taking medication at the moment for the vulva pain. Gave up over about 20 months ago to see if it made any difference to pain. So i can't blame any medic...

Thanks for your reply Pinklady. I have been told that weight gain is a factor that isn't helping as i have put on some weight around the middle. I feel like a balloon about to pop most of the time and it takes a long time to subside even a little.Worse after eating too. Do you feel the nerve pain ha...

Hi Just wanted to ask on here if anyone has had trouble with abdominal bloating having had vulva nerve pain for a while ? I have had vulva nerve pain on my right hand side for over 5 years now during which time i have had daily burning pain and the muscles have gradually tightened in that area of th...

Hi again Edwina I have been in touch with Bertie/Badger on this forum who set up the UK Facebook group. She has said that a couple of ladies from the Facebook Group who live in Sheffield and Doncaster are willing to contact you by personal email. They are in their 60s. Bertie also says that you woul...