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Anyone out there diagnosed with Pudendal Neuralgia?

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I was diagnosed at the University of Washington in 2004, but had symptoms since 1978. It is excruciating now, but appointments now take up to a year or more to get.

I rode bicycles for thousands of miles in the last century. Since 2000, it is agonizing to sit upright on a hard chair. It also makes my legs go dead.

I did have cauda equina syndrome in 2021 (after osteomyelitis in my spine after the Pfizer). Doctors do not think this pain and numbness is cauda equina because my EMG and MRIs are normal.

I found the nerve blocks to be helpful, and while walking, sitting pain mostly goes away (I have developed what I call a pain echo where the imprint of pain from a chair continues after I stand).

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I am interested in how you were diagnosed with equina syndrome. I have read extensively and have watched all the Utube videos. I possibly have pudendal neuralgia also. My past has involved some spine surgery, most lately a process performed by a neurologist in Little Rock, Ark. known as a Vari Lift Procedure. About that time I began to be diagnosed as OAB as I was peeing in my pants. I am a 84 year old male and all of my vitals are within norms. My first encounter with a problem related to the fact that sitting down was painful on my right side. I had a lot of procedures to try to correct that. I just deal with it and know how to avoid pain. I am very interested to know how cauda aquina was diagnosed and how it has affected your life. There are some very scary reports out there about this condition. Thanks in advance, Jerry.

I am now working with doctors to see if CES is the cause of my incontinence. I do have the sitting down pain problem which goes away when I stand, walk or lye down on my stomach.