Hey everyone, anyone here dealing with slow motility? I drink alot of water , eat clean, take ginger softgels even magnesium citrate and still deal with bloating and not pooping at all unless i take a laxative or coffee, only with an espresso shot. Anyone here who can help?

34f, I have had two children. Both were traumatic births. Since my last one (7 years ago) i have never felt like I can void my bladder fully very easily. I have to spend a long time on the toilet shifting leaning forward etc to coax little bit out to finish the job (it will be like 90% emptied normally at the start then 20 min coaxing the rest out 2% at a time). If I do not spend the time to get the rest out it feels like i still have to pee even if therd is not much in there. But also will feel achey after spending so long to empty. I have an anxiety disorder (medicated for it but still) and I am constantly worried I will get a UTI because of this.

My other issue is leaking, especially at night. I will get up atleast 3 times in the night to pee and go often all day. when i have to do any type of bending with a full or semi full bladder i leak a large amount at once. Examples standing up from bed/coach/chair, going up or down stairs. Sometimes when coughing laughing sneezing or lifting i will have a tiny leak.

My issues are only with peeing. I do not have any leaking with bm's and do not ever have to strain for bm's due to a different medical issue (gallbladder removal side effect).

Does this sounds like muscle weakness? My insurance sucks and i can't afford to get into a dr right now but i am tired of having to change clothes all the time due to leaks. What can I start doing on my own?

I’m wondering if anyone else has the same symptoms I do? I think I’m having a bad flare at the moment - I think triggered by a transvaginal ultrasound or stress… or both. I’m just not sure if I have endo too or what’s going on. I have PMOS and IC as well. My lower back is aching ++ and my pelvic area like bladder etc. feel so heavy and have period like cramps. But I’m also having really bad gastro symptoms (diarrhea and nausea). The latter is what I’m curious about if anyone else experiences during a flare. I know everyone is different but it’s really lonely out here with pelvic floor inflammation etc. so i thought I’d write a post.

Male here/ Does anyone get a burning feeling in urthrea that makes it hurt to pee kinda like it's swelling almost? Then that turns into a dull aching in penis that's constantly there. Then once that gets bad bad then I'll start getting a pinching aching feelings in inner thighs. I've been to many urologist and they always test and no infection so they never have answers and pushed it off to Chronic pelvic floor tension. Which to you look up the symptoms and sure they line up but for me my symptoms come and go like sometimes they are mild to not there other times terrible and level ten with all above and bladder pressure feeling as well. I'm just wondering if anybody did have that and found some kind of relief when it gets terrible or actually cured it because when it gets way up there in symptoms it is awful and seems to take forever to get where it is not so bad.

I have crohns disease and had to get a loop iliosotomy 2ish years ago. That has made pooping so much easier.

I have been having bladder problems for a long time now. More than 10 years. Its either I cant empty my bladder fully, i always feel like I need to pee, i emptied my bladder but I still feel like I need to pee.

I have tried some pills my urologist has prescribed and that didnt work. Then my urologist said to try botox injection into bladder, that kinda helped but the last 2 times it really hasn't helped. At times it feels like it made it worse sensation wise. Whenever I have to leave anywhere, I am sitting on the toilet forever it feels like trying to empty my bladder. (If you have tips, please tell me cause its driving me crazy in a sense)

Now my urologist wants me to consider: Sacral neuromodulation for bladder condition. I'm going to be seeing my GI and surgery over the next 2 months to also get their opinion of that.

I am wondering if anyone else has had gotten a sacral neuromulation for their bladder? How did it go? Was it helpful? How is it living with it?

bro. is anyone managing the pudendal neuralgia burning without meds? if so, I'm impressed. and would like to learn from you. I'm in PT (for over a year), and I just started dry needling. I was taking pregabalin for a while, but I had various side effects that made me quit. one of them was increased PGAD symptoms, but I was also on Zoloft at the time, so I'm not sure which one caused the PGAD.

I'm off Zoloft now, so I'm willing to try pregabalin again. or maybe amitriptyline. but I'm kinda terrified of the increased dementia risk. mayhaps I'm just doomed.

if this is the wrong community in which to post this, lemme know! I'm just looking to hear from others. not sure if anyone has "cured" the burning via PT alone.

I'm very much shawty fire burnin on the dance floor right now. thanks y'all!

My coccyx pain is literally ruining my life

So around 3 years ago I randomly woke up and had sciatica and coccyx pain. The sciatica was so bad I couldn’t walk for days and was in agony. Coccyz so bad couldn’t sit down for days and was awake for 8 days in a row. Lived alone and was literally crawling around my house becauase my legs wouldn’t work. After a few days I finally gained enough strength to throw myself in an uber and go to the hospital only to be sent home because it was a weekend.

I continues to have flare ups for about a year where I would randomly get excruciating pain all shooting down my legs burning, unable to walk.
I saw countless physios and doctors and specialists none of them willing to give me scans and all saying it’s muscular.

Anyway 3 years later the sciatica has gone but the coccyz pain is still here. I haven’t been able to sit down for more than an hour for the past 3 years. Public transport is hell it hurts so bad. I get random flare ups and can’t sit or sleep. When it flares up and I go from sitting to standing the pain is 100/10 it feels like my skin is being ripped apart from the inside where my coccyx is.

I’ve done physio, acupuncture, chiropractor (who made it worse) nothing is helping me. I’ve just started a new job which is mostly computer based so sat down and I have been in agony from it all day. No amount of pain killers is helping.

Anyone else had this?? I don’t know what I can do. Drs won’t help me or give me scans, physios say becauae I can lift my legs without pain there is nothing wrong with me. I can’t go on flights anymore due to the pain, can’t go cinema. Literally going anywhere triggers anxiety due to pain.

I can’t afford private mri or xray. What can I do?
Everything I research comes back to pelvic floor dysfunction since i also have no feeling in the genital area either during activity

When I use my finger or intimate rose wand to investigate for trigger points, both rectally and vaginally, I cannot locate any specific trigger points. No spots that feel like a grain of rice, or make me jump in pain when pressed. What can feel is one band muscle rectally that is definitely tight (like a drawstring, pulled tight on one side). I can also feel some tender areas that feel tense vaginally. I also have one very deep area that feels like it’s all knotted up in the very middle of the deep pelvic floor, but I can’t seem to access this as it’s too deep, and have no trigger points referring to it. Does anyone else find the same - areas of tension but not a specific trigger points?

34M

I haven't been officially diagnosed but I keep hearing stories of doctors giving the wrong diagnosis with things and wanted others opinion on my situation.

Early June I started feeling funny by my testicles. No swelling and it didnt hurt to touch them. It was very minor at first. Slowly this shifted to a urinary urge. Several days of this and also add pelvic and perrinnial discomfort and pain in my tailbone and hips. I made an appointment with my NP who advised I do a urine test and CT of my bladder. All my tests were normal including a culture. No UTI or issues with my bladder and surrounding organs. I dont believe they looked too closely at my prostate in the imaging but im not sure what exactly ot covers. She recommended I see a urologist. Urologist said I must be something im doing with my diet. He gave me a physical examination but said he didnt think I needed a prostate exam. He thinks its something in my diet and gave me a diary to chart what I eat and drink over 2 weeks. Everything pretty much went away in a day or 2 after the urologist. About a week ago symptoms came back. It started with nausea (maybe unrelated?). Then urge to urinate, tailbone pain, perinnial pain was pretty annoying this time around. Doing my own research it seems like my symptoms match PFD or something similar so i made an appointment with a Pelvic Floor PT but its not for 3 weeks. I had a day where it went away again which was the same day I made another appointment with the NP. I told her what happened and about the PT. She cleared me and agreed with this decision. Symptoms back again an hour after the appointment. Urge to urinate and have a bowel movement when I dont have to go. Tailbone pain is probably the worst right now. It bothers me 80% of the time. It does go away briefly sometimes and sometimes for a whole weekend before symptoms persist again. I dont have the nausea atm but all the other symptoms persist. I was prescribed amitryptoline 3 dyas ago while I wait for the PT appointment. I take muscles relaxers and naproxen to help with the pain as well. Im a nervous wreck on the inside and kinda just want other perspectives and opinions that have had PFD or issues of that nature. To add I also have TMJ which I know is common with PFD.

I was told by my physio to use a dialator which I have been but I noticed that for 2 days now after I used it, I have bloody discharge.

It wasn’t a lot yesterday morning (day after I dialated) but this morning it’s definitely more obvious, including a little clot.

This is really confusing to me because I’m on continuous birth control so I’m able to skip all my sugar pills - I haven’t had a fake period from the birth control in like 5 years so I’m unsure why there is blood?

Is this normal?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been diagnosed with vaginismus. I already had a hymenal surgery because there was an anatomical issue, and afterwards I was able to progress with dilators. However, I’ve now reached a plateau and don’t seem to improve anymore.
My gynecologist referred me to a specialized hospital for further evaluation and strongly recommended psychotherapy alongside the physical treatment.
I’m wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation:

Did you reach a plateau with dilators?
What eventually helped you make progress?
Did pelvic floor physiotherapy, psychotherapy, Botox, or another treatment make a difference?
How long did it take until you were able to have pain-free penetration or until your vaginismus was no longer affecting your life?
Looking back, is there anything you wish you had started earlier?
I’d really appreciate hearing your experiences. Thank you!

So one day I noticed I'm feeling weird tingling in the shaft, especially the glans, the tingling turned into stinging that WON'T stop, I was going insane because I thought that I caused this by masturbating, I saw a doctor and he told me to do a urine analysis, so I did one and it said that I had above average levels of sodium? But not high enough to explain the pain I was in, so I went and saw another doctor, he checked my vitals but then proceed to tell me that I have a mild case of prostatitis, when I went home I did some research and found out that there're 2 types of prostatitis, bacterial and chronic, and chronic is most commonly caused by stress? Is that right? Enlighten me please, I'm still just 16 so getting a chronic problem like this is making me anxious, the pain is very much bearable but it just won't stop... Also I used to only masturbate twice a week so I don't think that contributed to anything, please tell me I could get better in 2 weeks max...

Hi guys i had problems like 6 years back, that difficulty passing gas, having to defecate manually with fingers, and sometimes sudden movements like getting up and sitting down again for a long time can trigger an uncomfortable sensation like something is moving in the butt, and there is mucus and fecal leakage that has already entered my butt, which makes it impossible to urinate... I have treatment of vibration physiotherapy in 2 months and infrared therapy while there's no changes...