Frequent urination, a weak stream, painful ejaculation, the inability to sit for prolonged periods, and nonstop pain in the perineum, groin, back, testicles, and penis tip.
For nearly 25 years.
I’ve lived with these conditions along with multiple misdiagnoses, procedures, and unnecessary medications over the years because doctors didn’t understand the cause of the symptoms, and simply labeled my condition as prostatitis.
Having stumbled upon the book “a headache in the pelvis” I now have hope that I can find a therapist near me that can help fix my pelvis, and understand which has led to these pains that I’ve dealt with for over half my life.
Please let this be the start of the healing.
I’d like to hear your story of success if you have had something similar.
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I hope that you find the therapy you feel you need and that the treatment you think you need is backed up with peer-reviewed research - before the book was written.
Sadly the 10+ doctors that I’ve seen over the decades have misdiagnosed this chronic pelvic pain as prostatitis. It is unfortunate that so many doctors don’t understand chronic pelvic pain.
Your story is same like mine. It’s been three years and there is no cure so far. It come and goes, I think alternative therapy could be the answer like specific exercise but I have not tried yet.
I would like to read this book. Thanks for sharing and please do update if you have any success.
Let me tell you, i used to be in the same situation, used many medicines pescribed by many doctors, Like alpha blockers. They typially numbs the area by cutting blood flow to that area.
It was of not much benefit.
I've undergone a naturopathy lifestyle for 15 days. They taught me pain relief exercises, and also I've researched a bit online for pelvic floor exercises.
I'll let you know a couple of exercises helped me.
1. Lie down on your back, spread your hands to your side, rise your knees so that your feet touch the floor, twist both your knees to left so that your left knee touches the floor and turn your head to your right, this is half cycle, do the same to the right side this completes a cycle. Start with 10 cycles.
2. Pelvic floor bridge. Start with10 times
Lie down on the back, raise your knees such that your feet touches the ground. Now raise your pelvic floor as high as possible and hold at least for a few seconds, repeat it atleast for 10 times.
3. Bhujangaasana- serpent pose.
Lie down on your stomach, bring the palms beside your chest, raise your upper body inhaling, bending head backwards, to the extent you can stretch, come back to the esting position slowly, exhaling. Repeat it for 10 times.
You can google it.
4. Tyson pushups - it opens up the pelvic area. You can google it
5. Sit on your knees, resting your buttocks on feet - vajrasana, and raise your body, to stand on knees. Start with 10 times.
Do as many of these exercises possible.
It alleviated my symptoms,
A.locking or slowing down urine stream.
B. Extreamely Painful urination and ejaculation
C. Frequent urination.
D. Radiating pain with pelvis as center.
E. Pain reaches as far as soles.
E. Burning sensation while urinating, i think this has a different reason, like recurrent UTIs or something. This persists even now. May be circumcision helps me deal with this.
Believe me I've done it for a month or 45 days last year, no symptoms till the start of this year
the symptoms started to show up again, like for past month or so.
I've again started doing these exercises.
Sedentary lifestyle, harms the body, in ways we can't imagine.
Thank you so much for sharing. I started doing a couple of those moves 2 nights ago and combined with some diaphragmatic breathing, as recommended by the doctors that wrote the pelvic pain book.
It is the first time in a long time that I’ve slept 2 nights in a row without having to wake up to urinate.
I’ll check out some of the additional poses you’ve mentioned.
Im also hoping to find a therapist that can do trigger point therapy in the knotted up pelvic muscles.
So happy that you got a sigh of relief. . Keep going. May we move towards health not juat by medicines but embracing natural ways in our lifestyle. Nature is ultimate nurturer and healer.
🌳🌴
We create problem within ourselves and search outside for solutions.
Irony🤷♂️
We pollute ourselves and nature with our greed and we try to fix it with same poison, be it fertilizers, and other synthetic materials/chemicals we use.
We forget we are part of it and try to lock our horns with it instead of getting into sync with mother nature.
I am 58 and have been having problems with my prostate for about 7 years now. It started with a pain after ejaculation and the feeling of needing to pee for about a day or two after. It kept me awake at night. Referred to urologist who did a rectal sonography and didn’t find anything except slightly enlarged prostate. Had a couple of rounds of antibiotics but that didn’t improve the pain after ejaculation. Eventually told that it’s chronic prostatitis and just have to live with it. I’m not suffering from constant need to pee or having to get up in the night and my stream is slightly weaker but not overly impeded. I practised edging for a number of years and I now suspect this has contributed to my condition. Recently it has become worse where after becoming aroused and before ejaculation I have had lots of blood in my pee and also pushed out clots. Ended up in emergency a couple weeks ago as was slightly blocked with clot but eventually cleared without having catheter. Been to urologist again and he did a CT scan and cystoscope and nothing sinister just enlarged prostate. He has put me on tamsulosin and Finasteride for a few months.
Have quite a high libido so this is frustrating.
Now I dare not even think about becoming aroused for fear of causing the bleeding to start. Must admit it’s miserable as I enjoy sex but now feel like signing up at the nearest monastery.
I read somewhere in a Turkish study that guys who ejaculated at least twice a week found improvement to their prostatitis but I haven’t tried this.
The uro said it takes 6 months for the meds to work so I’m hoping they will but reading some of the other posts other guys don’t seem to have had much improvement. I have tried some of the exercises mentioned and I do think they help. Im on a waiting list now to see a pelvic physio. Hope the exercises help ease your suffering.
Sorry for your troubles. Essentially that’s how mine started at 20 years old.
The doctors pointed towards the prostate despite finding nothing wrong after 2 different cystoscopies because they weren’t sure where else to place the blame.
As I’ve learned, chronic prostatitis is the most common misdiagnose.
since starting to treat the pelvis for chronic pelvic pain syndromes week, I’ve seen reduced pain and and reduced urinary frequency.
So far I’ve only incorporated a little breathing exercises and relaxation techniques. I’m currently researching local physical therapists that specifically treat chronic pelvic pain syndromes- I expect to find someone that will help with trigger point release and some additional stretching exercises for the specific pelvic muscles that are constantly clenched.
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Foreskin / Frenulum Stretching. Is it possible? 
What the hell is wrong with my penis? Swollen on one side, red rash on foreskin, white wart like growth, lump inside shaft. 
Day 25, all going well
Chronic penis inflammation causing damage??
Do I need a Circumcision? Or just to stretch more (I’m new here)
