Fatigue, Pelvic Pain, and the Quiet Way My Body Shuts Down

Fatigue has been one of the hardest parts of living with chronic pelvic pain, not because it’s the most visible part of chronic pelvic pain, but because it’s the least understood part of having endometriosis, pudendal neuralgia and myofascial pelvic pain. When you live with endometriosis and pudendal neuralgia any pelvic condition, exhaustion isn’t just… Continue reading Fatigue, Pelvic Pain, and the Quiet Way My Body Shuts Down

Leaving A Toxic Doctor – This Is What Happened, And This Is What I Carry Forward

Don’t let a bad doctor make you feel like your to blame for your chronic pelvic pain I’ve gone back and forth for a long time about whether to write this.  Because speaking honestly about medical harm from a doctor often comes with consequences of disbelief people find it hard to understand that someone medically… Continue reading Leaving A Toxic Doctor – This Is What Happened, And This Is What I Carry Forward

My MRI Revealed Reoccurring Endometriosis: Navigating Bladder and Bowel Involvement and the Road to Specialist Care

This week I received MRI results that confirmed something I’ve been quietly bracing myself for: my endometriosis has returned and this time, it’s affecting both my bladder and bowel. The scan showed a lesion on the dome of my bladder, attached by an adhesion, and evidence of endometriosis or adhesions involving the sigmoid colon. Anyone… Continue reading My MRI Revealed Reoccurring Endometriosis: Navigating Bladder and Bowel Involvement and the Road to Specialist Care

Why I Write About Chronic Pelvic Pain And Why I do my part to Advocate for others through blogging my experience

I never imagined I’d become someone who writes about chronic pelvic pain. I never planned to talk publicly about endometriosis, pudendal nueralgia, myofascial pelvic pain or the chronic pain I live with, within the structure of a pretty normal lifestyle to me I have to live with Chronic Pelvic Pain, like so many of us… Continue reading Why I Write About Chronic Pelvic Pain And Why I do my part to Advocate for others through blogging my experience

The Power of Being Believed: Why Validation Matters When You Live With Chronic Pelvic Pain

The Power of Being Believed: Why Validation Matters When You Live With Chronic Pelvic Pain Living with chronic pelvic pain changes everything, the way you move, the way you think, the way you exist in the world. It’s not just the pain itself, it’s the way you have to carry it every single day while… Continue reading The Power of Being Believed: Why Validation Matters When You Live With Chronic Pelvic Pain

Understanding the Mind-Body Connection in Endo and Pelvic Pain – My First Endo/Pelvic Pain Workshop Experience

Attending my first Endo/Pelvic Pain Workshop what I discovered and what I learnt. Finding My Voice at the Endo/Pelvic Pain Workshop Attending the endo and pelvic pain workshop today was an act of bravery for me. I was anxious walking in, so my nervous system kicked up a notch, this made me unsure of how… Continue reading Understanding the Mind-Body Connection in Endo and Pelvic Pain – My First Endo/Pelvic Pain Workshop Experience

Releasing Trauma From Your Body While Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain The Truth can be releasing

Releasing Trauma From Your Body While Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain The Truth can be releasing When Your Body Holds More Than Pain How do I begin to even approach such a personal thing like trauma for those of us experienced with many forms of trauma, but today is about pelvic trauma from a horrific… Continue reading Releasing Trauma From Your Body While Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain The Truth can be releasing

Living in a Constant State of Inflammation: The Hidden Reality of Chronic Pelvic Pain

Living in a Constant State of Inflammation: The Hidden Reality of Chronic Pelvic Pain Living with chronic pelvic pain often means living in a constant state of inflammation my body feels like it’s always fighting itself. For many of us, it’s not just one condition causing the pain; it’s a combination of overlapping syndromes that… Continue reading Living in a Constant State of Inflammation: The Hidden Reality of Chronic Pelvic Pain

When Fatigue Becomes Another Symptom Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain and the Exhaustion.

When Fatigue Becomes Another Symptom Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain and the Exhaustion. Fatigue is one of many symptoms that often hides in the lime light of chronic pelvic pain. It’s like an add on symptom you didn’t ask for but occurs when your body is always fighting pain.  Everyone talks about the pain the… Continue reading When Fatigue Becomes Another Symptom Living With Chronic Pelvic Pain and the Exhaustion.