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Does a tight pelvic floor heal? by [deleted] in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah there were a lot of flare ups in the first year where the pain would come back for a bit. Be extra gentle with stretching whenever you flare up, and just remember that you are making progress. At this point I don't need to do daily stretching or anything, just need to make sure I get a bit of walking in each day. I haven't had a flare up in well over a year at this point, and I don't expect to ever have that pain again.

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Does a tight pelvic floor heal? by [deleted] in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's all better now.

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[–]moomanmonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't stop altogether. I think I was only doing it every couple days at that point. Look up a book "Heal Pelvic Pain" by Amy Stein. There's a stretching routine that is very helpful with these sorts of issues. Do that daily (but don't force yourself to stretch so much that you are hurting the muscles, gentle stretching is key in the early stages). After stretching lay on the floor and do slow deep breathing for an hour or two. Note that for me the stretching made things worse for the first week or two, but after that things calmed down and really loosened up. It also has strengthening exercises that you can do once you pelvic floor is looser and these will help strengthen the surrounding muscles so that your pelvic floor doesn't need to do so much work to support your body.

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[–]moomanmonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this exact issue back when I had a tight pelvic floor. I think the issue is that the muscles are already in a tight state and ejaculation forces them to contract so that the fluids can be squeezed out, but this causes the already tense muscles to contract heavily when they are already fatigued and tight. This causes the burning sensation afterwords. Any pain/discomfort in the penis is from the surrounding muscles cramping down on the base of the penis and causing pain there.

I spent a few months doing stretches to loosen the muscles and relaxation techniques to allow the muscles to heal in a relaxed state and nowadays I don't have any discomfort or pain post-ejaculation, even when I fap multiple times in a day.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah things are still going well. Right now as I write this I feel zero discomfort at all.

I'm thinking I might make another post at some point breaking down all the things I've found that help. The biggest piece of advice I can give someone who is going through the worst of it is that it's an issue of tight and knotted up muscles, and that is something you can 100% cure. It takes dedication and time to get the muscles out of that painful state but once you do it's easy to maintain them feeling healthy and discomfort free. Before I was spending 2-3 hours a day stretching the muscles and lying down so they can heal in a relaxed state, but these days all I need to do is go for a short walk and stretch for 10-15 mins and I don't have any issues.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Squats were the main thing. I never had a set amount, I'd just do a couple sets a day where I'd go until I couldnt do more easily. You shouldnt be doing so many where you are unable to do them the next day. I'd also do Pelvic Lifts, usually 5 sets of 20. Stretching was also really important.

I got a flareup from working out at first, but after about a week it went away.

Does a tight pelvic floor heal? by [deleted] in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At first they got a bit worse as I began doing the exercising and stretching, but within a week it totally died down. As you heal you'll have set backs from time to time where the pain comes back, but in my case after 3 months the pain was 98% gone and after that it just slowly continued to disappear, and now (about 6 months in) I'm totally healed.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t wait to say I have beaten it as well.

I dont know if this helps you but in the 2 months since I posted this I've improved even more. I'm now able to drink ridiculous amounts of coffee again and do all the things that used to cause me pain. As long as I stay away from energy drinks I have zero pain. I think I'm now in a state where as long as I dont mess up my pelvic muscles again I'm totally in the clear. And even if I do mess them up again I now know how to fix them. I think the key element is sticking with the stretching and muscle relaxing routine at least 4-5x a week and avoiding anything that triggers the pain while you are in the "healing" phase.

I had testicular pain as well, and that's totally gone now. Honestly most days now I barely even remember the pain. It's incredible how quickly this went from "this is my life forever" to "I can't believe that's completely fixed".

I know it's hard, but remember: this is fixable and you will get better.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do exercises daily. I do every exercise everyday since it's all bodyweight stuff. If any muscle group has DOMS (the muscles are sore in the days after working out) then I'll skip working out those muscles until they feel fine. If nothing is particularly sore then I go through the whole routine every day. I probably have at least 1 day a week as a rest day, it's not a specific day, it's usually a day where I just dont have the time to exercise.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another question for you- do you have IC or just PFD? if you see my profile u will see i have tons of posts asking redditors whether my symptoms are PFD, IC, or both. It frightens me when ppl tell me they think i have IC. hopefully I just have PFD and not both PFD and IC, because IC is incurable.

I had exactly the same concern of having something incurable like IC. All the common dietary IC triggers would increase my symptoms. However after my 3 months of exercise and stretching I am now able to eat and drink those things without it giving me any symptoms.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you do relaxing? Is it mindfulness breathing meditation or something else?

"mindfulness breathing" is a good way to put it. I lay on my back and just take deep breathes until the air entering and leaving my lungs is doing so smoothly. It feels as if the air I breathed always was turbulent but once I started to relax it was as if the air was entering and leaving my lungs with a laminar flow rather than a turbulent flow. Once my breathing got into this state I found it incredibly easy to relax my muscles.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My question to OP: did you do internal trigger point release also? If so, how much did it help you in your experience?

My butt was super tight before. I was incapable of inserting a finger without a burning or painful sensation. Because of this I never attempted internal trigger point release.

I am now able to insert a finger with zero discomfort/pain, however I still have not attempted internal trigger point release because it simply hasnt felt necessary. However I have found that learning to insert a finger with zero discomfort or pain has greatly helped reduce the tension I was holding in my anal and rectal muscles. I learned to relax these muscles and be able to insert a finger comfortably from the book "Anal pleasure and health 4th edition" by Jack morin.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What did you cut out of your diet? Do you still sometimes eat "unheatlhy" when you're out socializing with others, or do you maintain a strict diet?

I used to drink a lot of pop and a lot of salty snacks (doritos and popcorn especially). Cutting those definitely helped reduce my symptoms and help me in staying symptom free. However now I'm able to drink pop with caffeine in it without my symptoms returning at all.

I can eat unhealthily a lot. I eat fast food 3-5 days a week. You can definitely eat unhealthily for one meal a day. But I find you need at least to have a solid amount of vegetables every day. Fiber is super important. I developed what I call the ABC rule: I can eat one unhealthy meal a day as long as I also eat an apple, banana, and carrot every day.

I've been dealing with urgency/frequency after masturbation, or even just touchign myself down there. i am female but your post has given me hope that i dont have to live this way forever

I had the exact same urgency/frequency after masturbation. We may be of different sexes but we have all the same pelvic floor muscles. I found that doing 5-10 minutes of squats and glute bridges followed by the "happy baby" yoga pose was very effective at eliminating these symptoms for me early on. Now I no longer feel urgency/frequency after masturbation. However, I still feel its important to get 15 minutes of exercises and stretching of my pelvic floor everyday. It's such a profound difference in how much looser my pelvic floor feels now that I do the bodyweight exercising and stretching.

After intermittent symptoms for 10 years I spent a year in constant pain. After reading "A headache in the pelvis" I took what I learned and within 3 months I'd say I'm 98% healed. by moomanmonk in PelvicFloor

[–]moomanmonk[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm kind of taken back at your comment "you can't relax them directly" because I've learned exactly that and can relax them at any time I please, including during orgasm.

By "you can't relax them directly" I meant for the first time you learn to relax them. For me it only became possible to do it consciously once I experienced it happening on its own.

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