r/PelvicFloor

I have endo, and no matter the painkiller it didn’t make a dent in my pain. I’d lie in bed for days in pure agony, I get insanely tired from the pain.

It took me YEARS to realise it was hypertensive pelvic floor. Confirmed now by a urologist and a PT. The only thing that’s ever given me any sort of relief baclofen. But I’m being treated like a drug addict if I say I want to take a low dose everyday. I’m scared to ask for a refill.

Has anything else helped you guys?

For those of you who unconsciously clench or hold your pelvic floor throughout the day, what specific techniques have helped you actually stop?

I catch myself doing it multiple times a day. Sometimes focusing on the area helps me relax, other times gently bearing down or rocking my hips while lying down helps. But the tension always seems to come back.

I’ve done PFPT and still do daily stretches and breathing exercises, but I’m struggling with almost nonstop urinary urgency.

Hello everyone!
I have tried every position every amount of breath and I just can’t find the right one for me. Once while driving a car I put it on assistwd drive put both of my feet into the floor and started breathing. I remember breathing slowy just into it, and duddenyl I felt twitches and then I would breathe more and just once activate that spot to give it more attention. I felt amazing for a week or so. And When I tried to recreate, I couldnt. So I know Its possible I just dont know how????

I’ve had pain in a specific area in my vagina for two years since my hysterectomy and lately it’s gotten worse. I have been to doctors and pelvic floor therapists. I’ve tried medications, numbing lidocaine cream, a wand, exercise and breathing and nothing makes it stop. I will be trying a trigger point injection in a few weeks. I wonder if something else could be going on because it never goes away.

Is this a normal experience for you to have pelvic pain that never ever stops from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep?

CONSTANT NEED TO WEE ALL THE FUCKING TIME
TEIER STRETCHING TROES EVETYTHING
SURGETY TWICE PLEASE IM DYING IM DYING

Hey guys.

Have anyone been through the same? When I lay on my back and do the butterfly stretch/stretch my adductors, I feel a weird sensation down there. It’s like my balls kinda drop and my penis maybe get tucked in somewhat. Can’t really explain it properly, but something’s happens.

Could it be that my inner thighs that are the problem ?

I have no pain, but urinary symptoms, incomplete emptying of bowels, and sexual problems (less power, sensation etc) but luckily I don’t have ed.

I believe I strained to hard my internal muscles now my head feels very numb and rubbery. I made such a mistake not knowing when to stop. Shaft I can feel a bit more, but its reduced but splashing water or lightly touching the head is not tickly but flat rubbery.

Im in no pain accept my left buttock region feels sore and my farts and push to urinate feel weak and cant feel the forceful vibration and sensation . Even ejaculation feels hard to reach and reduced. There is a strange feeling where I dont feel sensation spread to my lower pelvis/ genital region everything is felt in the upper part. Even errection feel hollow and detached.

Just worried it will not return , Advice would be great.

I’ve had a history of very frequent masturbation and prolonged edging for years. More recently, I’ve started experiencing small amounts of fluid/semen leaking from my penis, sometimes after only mild sexual stimulation and occasionally without obvious arousal.

One thing that confuses me is that the leakage doesn’t seem to reduce my sexual desire/libido afterward. I don’t experience the usual feeling of being “satisfied” or having my lust decrease significantly.

Could this be related to pelvic floor tension/dysfunction from excessive masturbation and edging? Has anyone experienced something similar, and could pelvic floor physiotherapy or relaxation exercises help?

I am a young man. My doctor and his assistant asked me to remove my underwear completely. I lay down on the examination table, and he examined my groin. Then, I bent my legs and pulled them toward myself so he could examine my perineal area. He performed a digital rectal examination and attached electrical pads. I experienced an involuntary erection. I felt very embarrassed, and now I am too ashamed to go to the second session.

I'm going to have to become the meme I guess. Tried all kinds of exercises, all kinds of weight (even bodyweight), focused on my breathing, all of it. Doesn't matter. If/when I do lower body, it manifests in wicked urinary symptoms. Burning in bladder, frequent and low volume of urination, inability to hold as long. Waking up at night frequently to pee. And I can feel a constant low grade pain/tightness in the PF area.

Walking and light jogging doesn't seem to cause any issues, so going to keep that up and hope that is enough to keep my lower body in decent shape. Upper body strength training will continue, doesn't seem to bother me at all.

I have a few bad experiences with men including male gynecologists. I constantly clench down there and feel very uncomfortable when I am not clenching. Like there is air traveling up my vagina and things are going to fall out. I had an MRI defocagraphy (sp?) and no structural issues were found. So I think it’s a combination of stress and sexual trauma. I’ve been to mental health therapy but did not find it helpful.

Hey I’m a male with a hypertonic pelvic floor. My only Symptom is urinary urgency because of the muscles tightening around my bladder. I used to have all the other classic symptoms like burning pee and constipation and pain in the abdomen but those all went away with constant stretching everyday for a few months but I can’t shake the urinary urgency. Anyone know when that will go away or can anyone tell me how long it took yall to shake that symptom?

Im not talling about some weird douching stuff. Just squatting and aiming the shower head with warm water towards my anus. No water gets in, doesnt have to be close. When this happens i get instant pf drop and i can dribble pee even if i just peed minutes ago.

Its some sort of total pf relaxation. I am curios if i should keep doing this or if it can be damaging. Certainly does not feel like it.

Its the same feeling as a sitz bath but more intense

Hello!
I have been doing pelvic floor exercises for as long as I can remember, carried on during pregnancy and immediately afterbirth. Now at 2.5 month pp I feel this “loose/fullness” sensation down below. No problems with leaking of any kind BUT I had to use a squatty potty to go number two. Do things improve down there? Oh! I am breastfeeding, which I know it makes you loose everywhere. I have an appointment with a woman health physio soon. My husband is a gp and things a rectocele es there BUT he is convinced more woman he has seen at their 6-8 week check looked and reported the same

I used to take Tadalafil once a day at a low dose. This allowed me to play video games without flaring. However, I was seeing cream things as being tinged with green and realised that this was a side effect of the drug and that there are visual related risks with continuing to take the, so I stopped. This was 2 years ago now and I miss gaming. I wondered if taking alpha blockers might have a similar effect, as playing games of any duration flares me up no matter how I try and modify my set up. Thanks

Possibly want a 2nd baby, but scared of incontinence again?

Just wondering if someone experienced this? I love my baby and would not change that for anything. We were thinking of having a 2nd baby sometime soon, but I was reading that a 2nd baby could cause incontinece again if someone had incontinence with their 1st.

Thankfully with pt and time, I no longer leak urine. I want another baby, but do not want to be permanently incontinent after.

Does anyone have tired hips by their groin area? I notice it when I sit at a desk or drive. I can no longer sit cross legged on a chair, sit with one leg tucked under my butt, or sit with one leg propped up on the chair.

I’m really hoping this is temporary because it’s pretty uncomfortable to sit with both legs on the floor in a 90/90 position all day long. Even if I sit the proper way, my hips my the groin area are still absolutely exhausted and sometimes comes with SI pain. No stretching helps when this flares up and I’m at a loss.

For anyone who experienced this symptom, what made it better and were you able to eventually sit however you liked with time? Driving obviously can’t be avoided so there needs to be some kind of solution here.

My physio thinks that my tight pelvic floor muscles are irritating the nearby nerves. I get this pain similar to a burning sensation )but it’s not actually burning) in the vulva area but it doesn’t feel like the skin or muscle, I can’t quite pinpoint where the pain comes from. It can fluctuate a lot, some days I barely have pain, others i’m in a lot of pain most the day. But I can definitely tell peeing or pooing triggers this nerve irritation. Anywhere from a minute after to hours after peeing this discomfort begins. The worse the pain, the sooner the onset is after using the bathroom. I can definitely tell that it’s a major trigger. I haven’t really identified any other triggers so far.

For context, I'm a male in my early 30s. I have a history of hemorrhoids. Most of the time doesn't affect me at all, but every blue moon (maybe like every other year) it'll flare up. I had a flare up about 6-7 months ago, where it was painful and eventually a hemorrhoids popped and I bleed a bit and eventually the blood stopped (the blood dots that show up on TP after wiping) after a few days.

Around this same time, I had constipation for some time. It was a weird constipation where I either didn't have to strain too hard or strained a little bit and hard stool would come out, followed by soft regular stool. So that made me not think too much of it.

Since a month ago I got what I thought was diarrhea followed by thin stools. At first I thought it may be overflow diarrhea, but after trying almost everything (Miralax, Bisacodyl, Mineral Enema) based on my symptoms, I'm 99% convinced what I have is anismus. Matches up with the symptoms that those who have it are experiences. Thin poops, several of them. Usually don't feel fully emptied. Also would explain my urinary symptoms as well (not fully emptying due to pelvic floor) which leads to pelvic pain.

I did have a GI dr appt booked up and its coming in the next few days, but I was thinking of cancelling it and going straight to PT...is this the move or should I go to the GI anyways?