12:22pm July 23, 2015

Pelvic floor dysfunction?

merchantfan said:

You might have pelvic floor dysfunction. That’s what I have which prevents things from getting in.

Interesting.  I did have to go to physical therapy for something about my pelvic floor muscle, but I didn’t think to connect it to this. 

My urethra is spastic and I couldn’t pee and kept getting UTIs.  So they did biofeedback with electrodes on my pelvic floor muscle, and when that wasn’t enough they gave me an Interstim implant which relaxes the muscles so I can pee better.  It doesn’t do it perfectly, but between learning to relax it in PT and the Interstim doing the rest, I can usually pee enough to avoid infections these days.

So I don’t really know what pelvic floor dysfunction is, but I know they kept mentioning my pelvic floor muscle in connection with the spastic urethra.  So maybe it’s connected to my problems with gyn exams?  I don’t know.  I assume if one part of it has spasticity then the whole thing might?

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