There can be few medical problems that cause as much anguish and suffering or are the subject of as much confusion as pelvic pain.
You may well have been given different diagnoses by various consultants for your problem, as this part of the body can relate to a number of different mainstream medical departments (gynecology, urogenital, gastroenterology, orthopedic and others). The fact that there are nearly 50 names or syndromes for chronic pain or problems area below the belly button supports this.
Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome may be called or due to:
- Abdominal adhesions
- Bladder pain syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis (BPS/IC)
- Chronic Prostatitis/Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CP/CPPS )
- Clitoral Pain Syndrome
- Clitorodynia
- Coccydynia / Coccygodynia
- Cystalgia
- Dyspareunia
- Dysuria
- Endometriosis Associated Pain Syndrome
- Epididymal Pain Syndrome
- Erectile dysfunction (impotence)
- Hyper–mobility Syndrome (Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome, or Cutis hyperelastica)
- Interstitial cystitis (IC)
- Irritable Pelvis Syndrome (IPS)
- Non-bacterial cystitis / prostatitis
- Orchialgia
- Overactive Bladder Syndrome (OBS)
- Painful Bladder Syndrome (PBS)
- Pelvic congestion syndrome (varicose pelvis)
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (PFD) (pelvic floor dyssynergia, Anismus)
- Pelvic Pain of Gastrointestinal Origin
- Pelvic Pain Organic Dysfunction Syndrome (PPOD)
- Penile Pain Syndrome
- Perineal Pain Syndrome
- Period pain
- Perpetual Arousal Syndrome (PAS)
- Phallodynia
- Post-vastectomy Pain Syndrome
- Pregnancy-Related Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP)
- Proctalgia
- Prostate Pain Syndrome (PPS)
- Prostatodynia
- Pudendal Nerve pain / neuralgia
- Pudendal Pain Syndrome
- Reproductive pelvic pain
- Scrotal Pain Syndrome
- Sacral-Iliac Joint (SIJ) dysfunction
- Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD)
- Urethral Pain Syndrome
- Urgency-Frequency Syndrome (UFS)
- Vaginal Pain Syndrome
- Vaginismus
- Vestibular Pain Syndrome
- Vestibulitis
- Vulvar Pain Syndrome
- Vulvodynia
