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WE KNOW ENDO | How does endometriosis cause painful intercourse?

Laura Kemp of PRM in Chicago explains how endometriosis may cause pain with intercourse. At Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine™, we believe that the millions of women and men who suffer from pelvic pain should have access to care that provides relief. We don’t believe “a glass of wine will fix it” or that “it’s all in your head”. We will never abandon you – and from leadership to the front office to every pelvic pain specialist you meet, so much of our team has been in your shoes and believes the pelvic pain patient deserves better. This belief is what unifies us all at PRM. Since 2017, PRM has provided an innovative solution to a health crisis that affects 15% of women and 10% of men. Persistent pelvic pain is often overlooked, untreated, and misguided. At PRM, our mission is to decrease the time patients are suffering from pelvic pain symptoms. We offer a proprietary, simple, office-based procedure to treat the symptoms of chronic pelvic pain. The PRM Protocol™ consists of a series of pelvic nerve and muscle treatments to directly target inflammation in the pelvis and nerve pain. Depending on the condition causing your pelvic pain, other modalities may be needed in addition to our treatment. LEARN MORE: https://www.pelvicrehabilitation.com/ JOIN OUR COMMUNITY and get in on the discussions happening: ✨ Facebook -   / pelvicrehabilitation   ✨ Instagram -   / pelvicrehabilitation   ✨ Twitter -   / pelvicrehab   #PelvicRehabilitationMedicine *****  Hey, I wanted to talk to you a minute about the pain that can occur with sex for patients who have endometriosis. And this can happen for a few reasons. As you may know, endometriosis is an inflammatory condition and it can cause little adhesions throughout your pelvis. So what this means is that there can be little pieces, almost like scar tissue, that form in between your organ systems. For example, you may have some that are between the bladder and the uterus, or have some directly on the wall of the vagina. For patients who have chronic pain like endo, we tend to clench our jaws, our shoulders, and our pelvic floors. When we're continuing to clench those pelvic floor muscles, that can cause inflammation to the nerves, as well as there being inflammation from the endometriosis itself. Pain in our bodies is really a protection mechanism. It's telling your brain something is wrong, something is going on in your pelvis. So when you start to have a sexual activity, especially a penetrative sexual activity, often our bodies will guard against that and see that as an attack on our pelvic floor that's already inflamed. So what we need to do is learn how to relax those pelvic floor muscles and reduce the pain signals. Oftentimes, folks who have endometriosis will also have other conditions like vaginismus, for example. That's when your vagina will kind of clench closed without you wanting it to during sexual activity or even during gynecological exams. Other folks may experience issues with something called vulvodynia, where the outside of the vagina, the vulva, can be very painful, and that's related to the nerve inflammation in the pelvis. Sometimes just touch with clothing, but certainly touch with sexual contact can flare up that pain.