Dear forum members;
I am a new member here and I have been with chronic pelvic pain for almost 4 years.
....one day I felt very strange pain in the area of my pelvis and recognized a diminished libido.......
After several visits at different urologists, I finally got a diagnosis: Prostatitis. At first I felt relieve, cause I have been running around for months and no doctor was able to reach a diagnosis and now I had one. One year of treatment and 3-4 rounds of antibiotics later, nothing changed. I told my doctor that I felt the same like before, but he told me that I was okay now and my pain was maybe caused by psychological problems, but still the symtoms remained to be the same. He prescribed me Cialis for my diminished libido and wished me a nice day.
I started to feel like I needed a second opinion. That´s why I went to another doctor a few months later. He gave me every kind of test, medical imaging, etc. After one week I went back to the hospital, where he told me that there still was an inflammation in my prostate. He prescribed me another few rounds of antibiotics, but again nothing changed. This was the point when I started to feel depressed and wired thoughts started to fill my mind. I had catastrophic thoughts, I had the feeling I would die soon anyhow. I was afraid that my depression could influence my relationship in a very bad way. My gf told me months later, that my behaviour changed. I actually had severe problems to experience joy.
Meanwhile I got an appointment at the doctor, who was able to get a diagnosis first. He was kind of surprised to see me again. He prescribed me different antibiotics now: e.g. Augmentin. Nothing changed, except my thoughts and my mind got worse. I stopped going to the university and also lost my part time job. My gf seemed to be very understanding.....
I went back to the hospital, where the doctor said, that in fact there is nothing he can do for me. I had a nervous brake down that day, I was desperate. Through extensive research in the following months I finally found the book "a headache in the pelvis". After reading this book this summer, I gained some hope, that I could be helped. I started a new job, continued my studies, but for my relationship it was too late. My gf broke up, saying sometimes she is not able to cope with that anymore, even though things got better in the last months. Now winter is here, my gf moved out and my symptoms got worse again (actually they were never that worse).
Did anyone with chronic pelvic pain/pelvic floor disfunction/ levator ani syndrome read the book "a headache in the pelvis"?
Did anyone visit their 6 day immersion clinic?
Did it help?
Thanks for reading,
Michael, Austria, Europe.