Get a Pudendal Nerve Block!

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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.

[Violet M]

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).

Just would like to add that if your pain goes away for several hours, and you can confirm that the injection medication reached it's target (the pudendal nerve) as evidenced by loss of sensation in the distribution area of the pudendal nerve -- then you have a positive confirmation that the pudendal nerve is likely involved.

Violet