Please provide some do's and don'ts on dealing with chronic pelvic pain.

Ignore: Biofeedback may help you learn how to control pelvic muscles and improve pain.

Ignore: Keep track of triggers to your pain, the time and date. This will help your gynecologist address it.

Ignore: Physical therapy has been a life saver for many of my patients.

Ignore: As with any pain, mobility, exercise, weight control are helpful.

Try: Try to stay with one doctor. dont take narcotics. If it hurts that much, you need surgery or med.

Ignore: Do use NSAIDs as a first line defence Do use exercise Don't rely on narcotics Be honest about pain.

Ignore: Do not rely on opiate pain medications for chronic pelvic pain, it will only make things worse.

Ignore: See a Pelvic Floor Therapist that is specialized in this area to help with your Chronic Pelvic Pain.

Ignore: Consider alternative and complementary treatment options for chronic pelvic pain.

Ignore: Surgery is often not helpful for chronic pelvic pain.

Ignore: Most pelvic pain comes from injured muscle and fascia of the pelvis, abdomen and thighs, not nerves.

Ignore: Keep a pain diary.Knowing when you have the pain, where it is ,what it is like, and what helps helps.

Ignore: Chronic pain requires a team approach. Include drs, physical therapists, counsellors....

Ignore: Exercising and stretching can be instrumental in decreasing pain, you may want to see pelvic PT.

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