Pudendal Nerve Injection

Hello all you girls sitting on ice packs *waving*, I finally found a pain specialist who would see me. I had made countless phone calls to pain specialists in the past and all of them turned me away. I had given up on the pain specialists but then the other day I got a wild hair and decided to try calling them again. Finally found one. Saw them today and they set up an apt. for Wed. to have a Pudendal Nerve Injection done in the vagina area. Actually its two injections. Im a bit nervous of the unknown so Im going to have them load me up with some good old fashioned sedating med.

Im trying hard not to get too excited or to become too hopeful because in the past I have only been let down. But at least this is something new for me. Keep your fingers and legs crossed for me girls. I will let you know if it works and how it went.

Best wishes to you, hope it helps! It pays to be persistent - such a shame that we have the additional burden of having to fight so hard just to get treatment - as if the pain itself wasn't enough of a curse!

The injection went well but I was numb from my butt all the way down to my toes. So I couldn't walk too well. Getting a second one done in two weeks and after that I have a follow up apt to discuss whether or not burning the nerves will help. I just hope that if they burn the nerves my legs will still work.

After reading a few threads about Pudendal Nerve entrapment, then reading about Pudendal Nerve blocks and being in pain for so long, I have a theory. A year and a half ago I started getting the burning sensation. The gyno did a biopsy and the diag. was Lichen Simplex Chronicus. The burning pain was located in my vulva area, about the size of a quarter. As time passed my burning pain got worse so I started sitting in an awkward position, hips tilted forward and slouching to take the pressure off of my vulva area. Then after months of sitting like that, my burning pain spread out to my pubic hair area, then up to the top of my clitoris, down my butt cheeks and now to my inner thighs. All my Gynos said it must be nerve related. AHA, yes, it is nerve related but I dont think its necessarily from the LSC, I think the burning/pain spread because of the way I was sitting and then in turn trapped the Pudendal nerve. So now I actually have two problems, LSC and trapped Pudendal nerves. I will have to have both treated separately by different kinds of Dr.'s. So thats my theory.