Posted by kerria on April 1, 2006, at 15:22:19
In reply to Re: pudendal neuralgia in men--possible trigger**, posted by mike99 on April 1, 2006, at 13:16:49
Hi Mike,
Yes, i'll have the surgery - i'm just not sure where yet. The pain is constant- i don't have any good days. It's too hard to manage.
Yes, the fall on the backpack trip while carrying the heavy pack is what caused it. i was saying that at first but after MRIs were taken my dr sent me to a gyn dr who wanted to do surgery.
i feel so badly i had unnecessary surgery.Make sure that they have facts before getting exploritory surgery on you- trying to find what the cause is.
i'm convinced that PN is the problem and the more experienced surgeon will probably be the best.
Thanx- i hope that it works, too.
Some drs don't believe in PN at all. My pain management dr was like that- i looked it up myself and found that i had all the symptoms- i looked up the nerve that governed the place where i felt pain. It was the pudendal nerve. i asked that dr about PNE and he said "Nobody ever has that."
So you have to find a dr who believes in PN as being a true diagnosis. i went to the Mayo clinic in MN. They don't believe it there either. They tested me so thousands of $ worth of stuff and at the end told me that they didn't know why i had pain. Not only that- then they accused me of it being psychosomatic and then seeking pain medicine. it was terrible.
For your own sake make sure that your dr is PN aware anyways and believes it could be a real diagnosis.
take care- i hope you can be pain free-
kerria
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