Anyone feel their job is making symptoms worse?

Hi,
This may seen a little odd, but I think my job is making my pain worse! I work in a school for children with autism in a position with responsibility for implementing programmes and training staff and deal with problem behaviour which can be aggressive ! I constantly feel like I'm making sure everyone is ok and I feel I'm always in fight or flight mode, I really enjoy my job and love the kids. But I've been bk to school for 4 days with the kids and my vulvar pain is back after 7 weeks of no pain ! Really struggling with making a difficult decision but this is the only job I have ever done and I don't want to be one of those people who just work with the less challenging kids !

Anyone been in a similar situation. ?

My job definitely does because I stand almost all day and have lousy posture and the quicker I have to go the worse I get for breath holding, gripping with the glutes and upper abs and it makes my pain off the scale. I find if I pay attention and make sure I breathe properly and don't grip with anything I only feel slightly worse at the end of the day as opposed to horrendous. I would say try and pay attention to what you're doing and work out if you clench or don't breathe properly before you leave your job, it could be a case of learning not to do these things whilst at work to keep the pain away.

It's not likely to be stress related is it? Do you find the works stressful or is it just full on? Do you spend more time sitting when you're at work vs holiday time? Is there a chance it's even your work chair?

I wouldn't say my work makes my condition worse, but sometimes I do notice it stings a little more because I sit at a desk all day and probably have really bad posture...

Thanks for both your responses, not sure how I can describe my job, I run around like a headless chicken after children and spent time training other people, I have to get physically involved playing chase, jumping on the trampoline, riding scooters ! I do sit down on and off, but it can be a stressful environment working with children who can be aggressive. I also have to restrain children at times as well, dealing with aggressive behaviour often leaves you in a constant state of fight or flight which mean I can not relax when I'm not relaxed I hold in my tummy muscles which has an effect on my pelvic floor muscles.

Hope this gives u an idea of work day.

Hey sunflower,
I'm a care assistant and I work with elderly clients, and children and adults with learning disabilities so slightly similar!

Because the job comes with a lot of responsibility obviously you have to make sure you don't have too much time off, are on time etc. This pressure can be hard for me to cope with. I find the VV sometimes makes me want to not do anything and makes me run a little late as I'm trying to find creams and painkillers in the morning  (I should probably get more prepared the night before but I never learn!)

I do find stress seems to make the burning worse. Weirdly, when I was on holiday for 3 weeks the pain was not gone but greatly reduced. I was going in the sea and pool every day, I don't know if the cooling effect of the water was soothing maybe?

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I found the same when I was on honeymoon! Nearly any burning, I wonder if the salt water helped, we swam in the sea and the pool which was salt water! The shower in the room was also salt mildly salty!

Also has a nerve block in my back ten days before so don't know if it was a combination of that and getting married and being off work !

Kt

That's really interesting!

Yeah, good life events seem to at least make it slightly more bearable. I might try some bath salts to see if that does anything.

Belle