Health Organization for Pudendal Education

Strange as it may sound, before my problem became full blown and sitting became unbearable and before I was aware that I had PN compression due to a tarlov cyst, sitting often improved my symptoms.

Once it became permanent, however, sitting has always made it worse and not once been pain relieving. I think I may have had only nerve irritation in the beginning for which sitting some times helped. Once the nerve becomes irreversibly entrapped for whatever reason, then sitting does not seem to help at all.

Srinmav, I have seen other people post that their health care provider told them to start sitting for very short periods of time and slowly work up on the amount of time to increase sitting tolerance. I don't see how this could have worked for me with an entrapped nerve but if you have tarlov cysts rather than PNE it makes some sense. How are your pain levels these days?

Violet

Tolerable at the moment, as long as I remain conscious of what I do.