UCPPS - Prostatitis, Interstitial Cystitis Forum

There is also Autogenic Training: New Way to Beat Stress Successfully by Kai Kermani. Its ony £3.50 on Amazon.co.uk.

Agree with sleeper service when he says it is very rare to find a urologist who understand this condition.

I have never heard of a Uro refering someone for physio therapy for this. Sounds as if you have a good doctor.

I have been experimenting with autogenic traning after reading about it on the forum. I also prefer it to paradoxical relaxation as I struggle to empty my mind of thoughts.

Autogenic training is highly recommended for chronic pain in general so hopefully I'll see the results soon.

I am not pain free yet but my erections are fine now. As I said in my previous post as my pelvic floor muscles began to improve my erections became stronger. If you find a physio that can do trigger point work on the pelvic floor ( unfortunetly they are n't in great supply) I think you will find ...

TJ88 I know how you feel. I got chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome (prostatitis) when I just turned 20 and still at University. Sitting through lectures and tutorials was a nightmare for me. I can also empathise when you talk about girls flirting with you and not being able to act on ...

I am having treatment with Bill and I would definitely recommend him. He is a great physio with an excellent understanding of CPPS. He is also very supportive towards his patients and appreciates how tough it is to have chronic pelvic pain.

I understand how daunting having the internal physio is ...

Yeah thats a good point, it is hard to be objective about yourself. Anxiety in many cases probably does trigger the CPPS.

I also believe though that as the science improves on chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome other ways of creating pelvic floor muscle tension may be revealed. A ...

Whilst I welcome the research by Dr Anderson I would argue that in some patients cases (not all) it is the condition that creates the anxiety. chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome happened to me at very happy time of my life and I was n't an anxious person before I had it. I do agree ...

Completly agree with the points made by Alprost and Clay.

Don't read stuff like this it will only make you doubt the treatment.

I met a guy in Scotland who has been in pain for 7 years & did not want to go on this forum because "it scared him"! Well - his obvious lack of knowledge & progress told me that he needed to visit here again. He also has been to Sebastopol but didn't "agree" with the stress / anxiety theory of CPPS ...

I feel swimming helps me. In fact I have just got back from the pool now and was a little worried at first when I read 'Beware of Chlorine'

Swimming is about the only exercise that does n't flare up my symptoms and after a good swim my mood is improved. I also think its important to keep up some ...

My Pain was unrelenting for seven years and came on very suddenly after I caught chlamydia. Having PT is helping and I have found many trigger points internally. I think a lot of sufferers have had unrelenting pain for years especially when it is triggered by infection (I'm not saying chronic ...