Today it dawned on me that I should share my story in the chance that it might help a fellow human being out there who is facing a similar hellish situation.
2007... I was a happy, active 36 year old man, rock climbing, biking, swimming, running. At a bouldering gym I fell about 15 feet straight down onto my bottom, and I felt a warm tingling sensation up my spine, but no pain. Soon thereafter I felt okay, and recklessly I continued climbing... then while doing a high step bouldering problem (where your feet are above most of your body) I felt something like a cattle-prod being stuck underneath my testicles.
A few painful and confusing months later I was finally diagnosed with pudendal nerve entrapment by a pelvic floor specialist.
Some of the pain symptoms:
Dull,or sharp, stabbing pain in the perineum area whenever I would sit for longer than 5-10 minutes
Pain while urinating (sometimes excruciating)
Pain with anything sex related
Pain if I stretched in particular ways.
I gave up bike riding, climbing, motorcycle riding, even running... it felt like almost everything was painful.
I was borderline suicidal at times, and I spent thousands of dollars and tried maybe four dozen therapies trying desperately to get my life back.
I am no doctor, but here are the remedies/therapies for your consideration that worked best for me (and most of them are free thankfully
)••Fascia rolling around the area, as well as the coccyx, once every other day
••Gentle personal massage for about 1 minute, every other day, paying close attention to how my body would respond to different massages, I would also use a pain relieving cream while doing it, Topricin (nerve relief) worked really well for me
••Inversion table a few times a week
••Gentle daily exercise that doesn't exacerbate the condition (walking graduating into light jogging was great for me)
••Gentle Stretching (figuring out what stretches help, what hurts, what's needed even if it's uncomfortable)... there's something called the "Pudendal Slide" that really helped me: I would lay on my back with legs straight, gently bring one knee up with foot still on the ground, bring knee gently to the side (left if left knee, right if right knee), bring knee back up, then gently straighten leg... then repeat with other side, 3 reps once daily I would do.
**NET (neuro emotional technique... it worked wonders for me, you can do your own research
)Thanks for reading, I feel like I'm about to cry... my full heart goes out to anyone wrestling with this crazy injury.
Everyone has their own journey, but to whoever happens to be reading this... YOU CAN DO IT.
