How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
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How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
I'd love to hear from those who have the wand and have been able to compare its ability to reach and get rid of TrPs relative to fingers/other products.
Age: 27 | Onset Age: 26 | Symptoms: Pelvic pain (began w/ introduction into bladder/prostate of highly resistant strain of bacteria that was acquired via a Botox injection intended to treat levator ani syndrome) | Helped By: Paxil for anxiety, Trigger point release and trigger point injections, stretches, hot baths, Prosta-Q | Worsened By: Stress/anxiety, Sitting down for long periods,
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Hey critthinker,
I have been using the wand (finally, correctly) for almost exactly three months now and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it has literally saved my life. I've had chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome since about 2007, but my symptoms were never really life-changingly bad until this year. I went to Dr. Wise's clinic in 2008, got the wand, got taught how to use it...but I kinda fell off the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol wagon because, let's face it, it's a lot of work and my symptoms weren't that bad. I got lazy.
Well in July of 2011, my symptoms *exploded* and my life was turned upside down. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep because the pain and frequency was so bad. I had to take disability leave from work. I was having severe panic attacks. It was the darkest time of my life and I felt that I couldn't go on anymore. I did a lot of crying to my wife and family. I felt it was the end of all things for me.
I had the wand in my closet, but after three years, I'd really forgotten how to use it correctly (it's harder than it looks). Then, on Oct 19th, I took a flight from my home in LA to San Francisco where I had a one hour meeting with TIm Sawyer. It saved my life. He's such a kind and warm man...and a certified genius in dealing with trigger points on the pelvic floor. He re-instructed me on how to use the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, and from that day on, my life was saved. Right away my pain and frequency started to drop off (I'd say about 25% in the first month). Then in November and December, I got about another 20% better, using the wand just like Tim instructed me, once every two days. I never do it more than once every two days. It's given me my life back. I returned to work in November, and had a great Christmas with my family.
I still have a long road ahead of me...and just this week I had a DOOZY of a flare that felt like it set me back 15 steps in my progress. But it's finally starting to subside, and I know that these things are to be expected, as sucky as they are.
All of my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms seem to emanate from a tight band of muscle around my prostate. All my pain and frequency is prostate-and-bladder-neck related. This is an area that is physically impossible to reach with your own finger (or even with someone else's finger, sometimes!) All my spots are pretty high up on the levator ani muscle, and the prostate itself is sore. I'd tried several other tools like commercially available vibrators or things of that nature but nothing really worked. The Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, however, is like a laser guided missile in terms of hitting the upper levator ani muscles. I can zero in on my prostate directly, massage it, and then move to either side, above and below and apply pin-point pressure on those muscles, loosening them up. The pressure gauge attached to the wand tells me exactly how much pressure I'm using, so I can make sure it's steady, and I can chart my progress. There's really nothing like it out there anywhere else.
So in short, yes, the Wise-Anderson Protocol is *super* important to my recovery. I would be totally lost without it. So far in 4 years it's the ONLY thing that has brought me any kind of relief. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. After approximately 5 months of paradoxical relaxation work, I'm finally seeing some results from that too. And not coincidentally, the tapes that I listen to ALSO came from the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic. Basically, everything that's ever worked for me to help reduce my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms came from Santa Rosa.
If you want to read more, there are two good threads where me and two other guys have been discussing it at length.
Here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7733
(mainly on the last few pages of this one)
and here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7685
(Also on the last couple of pages)
Good luck! Get yourself to the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic if you can!
I have been using the wand (finally, correctly) for almost exactly three months now and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it has literally saved my life. I've had chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome since about 2007, but my symptoms were never really life-changingly bad until this year. I went to Dr. Wise's clinic in 2008, got the wand, got taught how to use it...but I kinda fell off the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol wagon because, let's face it, it's a lot of work and my symptoms weren't that bad. I got lazy.
Well in July of 2011, my symptoms *exploded* and my life was turned upside down. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep because the pain and frequency was so bad. I had to take disability leave from work. I was having severe panic attacks. It was the darkest time of my life and I felt that I couldn't go on anymore. I did a lot of crying to my wife and family. I felt it was the end of all things for me.
I had the wand in my closet, but after three years, I'd really forgotten how to use it correctly (it's harder than it looks). Then, on Oct 19th, I took a flight from my home in LA to San Francisco where I had a one hour meeting with TIm Sawyer. It saved my life. He's such a kind and warm man...and a certified genius in dealing with trigger points on the pelvic floor. He re-instructed me on how to use the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, and from that day on, my life was saved. Right away my pain and frequency started to drop off (I'd say about 25% in the first month). Then in November and December, I got about another 20% better, using the wand just like Tim instructed me, once every two days. I never do it more than once every two days. It's given me my life back. I returned to work in November, and had a great Christmas with my family.
I still have a long road ahead of me...and just this week I had a DOOZY of a flare that felt like it set me back 15 steps in my progress. But it's finally starting to subside, and I know that these things are to be expected, as sucky as they are.
All of my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms seem to emanate from a tight band of muscle around my prostate. All my pain and frequency is prostate-and-bladder-neck related. This is an area that is physically impossible to reach with your own finger (or even with someone else's finger, sometimes!) All my spots are pretty high up on the levator ani muscle, and the prostate itself is sore. I'd tried several other tools like commercially available vibrators or things of that nature but nothing really worked. The Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, however, is like a laser guided missile in terms of hitting the upper levator ani muscles. I can zero in on my prostate directly, massage it, and then move to either side, above and below and apply pin-point pressure on those muscles, loosening them up. The pressure gauge attached to the wand tells me exactly how much pressure I'm using, so I can make sure it's steady, and I can chart my progress. There's really nothing like it out there anywhere else.
So in short, yes, the Wise-Anderson Protocol is *super* important to my recovery. I would be totally lost without it. So far in 4 years it's the ONLY thing that has brought me any kind of relief. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. After approximately 5 months of paradoxical relaxation work, I'm finally seeing some results from that too. And not coincidentally, the tapes that I listen to ALSO came from the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic. Basically, everything that's ever worked for me to help reduce my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms came from Santa Rosa.
If you want to read more, there are two good threads where me and two other guys have been discussing it at length.
Here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7733
(mainly on the last few pages of this one)
and here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7685
(Also on the last couple of pages)
Good luck! Get yourself to the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic if you can!
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
So is there anyway to get these Wise Paradoxical Relaxation Tapes without attending the clinic? I mean... I certainly can't afford to attend the clinic... Physical Therapy alone is running me dry.
Age: 24 | Onset Age: 17 | Symptoms: Rare flares with debilitating burning at tip of penis. Sometimes strange pain down legs to feet. Sometime Urgency and Frequency as well as hesitation | Helped By: Self therapy as well as once monthly physical therapist meetings. Relaxation of pelvic muscles. Quit Smoking. | Worsened By: pelvic floor tightening. Anxiety
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Dr. Wise only releases his paradoxical relaxation recordings on a series of 48 cassette TAPES...never on CD's or MP3's. While this is an enormous pain in the butt, he says he does it because he doesn't want people to freely distribute them on the internet...but it's not because of a piracy issue...but he says it's because he's afraid people would try them without the proper instruction on how to really do paradoxical relaxation. Then people would just get frustrated and give up without really understanding what the process is all about.bobby wrote:So is there anyway to get these Wise Paradoxical Relaxation Tapes without attending the clinic? I mean... I certainly can't afford to attend the clinic... Physical Therapy alone is running me dry.
So no, you can't buy them and you likely can't find them on the internet in the form of mp3's or whatever. I've tried converting a few of the cassettes over to mp3's so I can listen to them on my break at work on my iPhone but the conversion process takes a long time and I've yet to find a way to keep the quality at a listenable level.
So in short...no, you can't get them unless you go to the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic in Santa Rosa.
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
I totally posted this in the wrong thread but I do appreciate the response.... I suppose I will have to find some kind of alternative. I have a basic understanding of it after reading the other thread so I will try to duplicate it without the tapes. Thanks again for the response Yoink.
Age: 24 | Onset Age: 17 | Symptoms: Rare flares with debilitating burning at tip of penis. Sometimes strange pain down legs to feet. Sometime Urgency and Frequency as well as hesitation | Helped By: Self therapy as well as once monthly physical therapist meetings. Relaxation of pelvic muscles. Quit Smoking. | Worsened By: pelvic floor tightening. Anxiety
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
No problem. Just FYI, personally I have no idea how anyone could figure out how to do paradoxical relaxation without the use of tapes guiding you and/or a professional therapist instructing you. I've read Dr. Wise's new(er) book "Paradoxical Relaxation" cover to cover, attended his clinic AND I have his tapes...and I still have trouble figuring it all out. He's serious when he says it takes upwards of 6 months to a year just to get good enough at it to *begin* to see results. It can take 2 years or more to truly master it. That being said, I've been doing it for about three months now and during a one-hour session I can almost get my pelvic symptoms to disappear completely...however they always return when I rise from the session and go back to living my life.bobby wrote:I totally posted this in the wrong thread but I do appreciate the response.... I suppose I will have to find some kind of alternative. I have a basic understanding of it after reading the other thread so I will try to duplicate it without the tapes. Thanks again for the response Yoink.
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
What you say is correct but it looks like you can get the recordings in mp4 format. This link was found by bungle:yoink15 wrote:Dr. Wise only releases his paradoxical relaxation recordings on a series of 48 cassette TAPES...never on CD's or MP3's.
http://www.pelvicpain.nl/painclinic.html
They sell a "self help kit (mp4 player and the Wand) developed by Dr. Wise". It looks like they are putting the recordings on an mp4 player and selling that, I guess the mp4 player must have some sort or copy protection built in.
Age 40. Symptoms started Feb 2011 but for a number of years before sometimes had burning pain after ejaculation for 30mins or so. Initially testicle discomfort, then bladder pain/urgency followed by penile discomfort and burning after urination. Used to have periods of being symptom free but now have continual penis discomfort, mainly at tip. During a flare pain is more of a burning type, especially after urination. 3 negative urine tests, cystoscopy, ultrasound of kidneys/bladder all negative. Urologist never gave me anitbiotics or suspected prostate infection but couldn't find out what was wrong. Helped by rest, heat (sauna/hot bath). Just started on amitriptyline, no benefit yet.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
how much is 350 EURO american dollars? That's how much just the kit would be I believe.
Age: 24 | Onset Age: 17 | Symptoms: Rare flares with debilitating burning at tip of penis. Sometimes strange pain down legs to feet. Sometime Urgency and Frequency as well as hesitation | Helped By: Self therapy as well as once monthly physical therapist meetings. Relaxation of pelvic muscles. Quit Smoking. | Worsened By: pelvic floor tightening. Anxiety
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Nick, that is a great find! I have the email address for Claudia, Dr. Wise's assistant and I just wrote to her and asked her if the paradoxical relaxation tapes are available on .mp3 format. If so that would be awesome because I could put them all on my iPhone and finally free myself from lugging a cassette player and tapes everywhere!Nick wrote:What you say is correct but it looks like you can get the recordings in mp4 format. This link was found by bungle:yoink15 wrote:Dr. Wise only releases his paradoxical relaxation recordings on a series of 48 cassette TAPES...never on CD's or MP3's.
http://www.pelvicpain.nl/painclinic.html
They sell a "self help kit (mp4 player and the Wand) developed by Dr. Wise". It looks like they are putting the recordings on an mp4 player and selling that, I guess the mp4 player must have some sort or copy protection built in.
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
I attended this past Septembers clinic and we were all only given 3 cassettes and a tape player. Were suppose to be getting an mp4 by the end of this month that is supposed to have everything on it. Hopefully I can get on track with the relaxation when it arrives. I have been bad about doing the relaxation but listening to the same two tapes seemed to have been more annoying than helpful. The one tape was for walking. I'll let you know what arrives (hopefully soon).
Age:33 | Onset Age: 20 | Symptoms: burning urethra after urinating, followed by rush to urinate again, rectal pain after a bowel movement sometimes, frequency. | Helped By: Pyridium and Ativan | Worsened By: stress, sitting and unknown reasons.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
OMG GARYS seriously? I had no idea, friend! Dude, in the winter 08' clinic that I went to, Dr. Wise gave us all a cassette player and TWENTY FOUR cassettes, each with a lesson on both sides, for a total of 48 lessons!!!
There's so much variety and it covers such a wide range of relaxation topics and techniques that it never gets boring! (Well, okay sometimes it does, but you know what I mean). However I'd trade them all if I could get them all on digital format. I'd love to just set my mp3 player on "random" each time I lie down to do one so I'd never know what I was getting. I surmise that might make it more interesting.
There's so much variety and it covers such a wide range of relaxation topics and techniques that it never gets boring! (Well, okay sometimes it does, but you know what I mean). However I'd trade them all if I could get them all on digital format. I'd love to just set my mp3 player on "random" each time I lie down to do one so I'd never know what I was getting. I surmise that might make it more interesting.
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
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critthinker
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Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Yoink, this is one of the most helpful posts I've seen on the boards. Thank you so much for taking the time to share. I've had a very similar experience (I have upper anterior levator ani TrPs that are inaccessible by most methods).yoink15 wrote:Hey critthinker,
I have been using the wand (finally, correctly) for almost exactly three months now and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it has literally saved my life. I've had chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome since about 2007, but my symptoms were never really life-changingly bad until this year. I went to Dr. Wise's clinic in 2008, got the wand, got taught how to use it...but I kinda fell off the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol wagon because, let's face it, it's a lot of work and my symptoms weren't that bad. I got lazy.
Well in July of 2011, my symptoms *exploded* and my life was turned upside down. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep because the pain and frequency was so bad. I had to take disability leave from work. I was having severe panic attacks. It was the darkest time of my life and I felt that I couldn't go on anymore. I did a lot of crying to my wife and family. I felt it was the end of all things for me.
I had the wand in my closet, but after three years, I'd really forgotten how to use it correctly (it's harder than it looks). Then, on Oct 19th, I took a flight from my home in LA to San Francisco where I had a one hour meeting with TIm Sawyer. It saved my life. He's such a kind and warm man...and a certified genius in dealing with trigger points on the pelvic floor. He re-instructed me on how to use the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, and from that day on, my life was saved. Right away my pain and frequency started to drop off (I'd say about 25% in the first month). Then in November and December, I got about another 20% better, using the wand just like Tim instructed me, once every two days. I never do it more than once every two days. It's given me my life back. I returned to work in November, and had a great Christmas with my family.
I still have a long road ahead of me...and just this week I had a DOOZY of a flare that felt like it set me back 15 steps in my progress. But it's finally starting to subside, and I know that these things are to be expected, as sucky as they are.
All of my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms seem to emanate from a tight band of muscle around my prostate. All my pain and frequency is prostate-and-bladder-neck related. This is an area that is physically impossible to reach with your own finger (or even with someone else's finger, sometimes!) All my spots are pretty high up on the levator ani muscle, and the prostate itself is sore. I'd tried several other tools like commercially available vibrators or things of that nature but nothing really worked. The Wise-Anderson Protocol wand, however, is like a laser guided missile in terms of hitting the upper levator ani muscles. I can zero in on my prostate directly, massage it, and then move to either side, above and below and apply pin-point pressure on those muscles, loosening them up. The pressure gauge attached to the wand tells me exactly how much pressure I'm using, so I can make sure it's steady, and I can chart my progress. There's really nothing like it out there anywhere else.
So in short, yes, the Wise-Anderson Protocol is *super* important to my recovery. I would be totally lost without it. So far in 4 years it's the ONLY thing that has brought me any kind of relief. Well, I guess I shouldn't say that. After approximately 5 months of paradoxical relaxation work, I'm finally seeing some results from that too. And not coincidentally, the tapes that I listen to ALSO came from the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic. Basically, everything that's ever worked for me to help reduce my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome symptoms came from Santa Rosa.
If you want to read more, there are two good threads where me and two other guys have been discussing it at length.
Here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7733
(mainly on the last few pages of this one)
and here:
viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7685
(Also on the last couple of pages)
Good luck! Get yourself to the Wise-Anderson Protocol clinic if you can!
Age: 27 | Onset Age: 26 | Symptoms: Pelvic pain (began w/ introduction into bladder/prostate of highly resistant strain of bacteria that was acquired via a Botox injection intended to treat levator ani syndrome) | Helped By: Paxil for anxiety, Trigger point release and trigger point injections, stretches, hot baths, Prosta-Q | Worsened By: Stress/anxiety, Sitting down for long periods,
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Re: the Tapes
I still have less than half of the Relaxation tapes from the WA New York Paradoxical Relaxation session in August 2003, which was a wonderful session and, to my knowledge, the only sessions not held in the bay area. The other cassettes have broken or faded from use. I called and asked for a replacement set two years ago to Wise's office but I was told no without explanation. So I make do with what I have.
Age: 43 | Onset Age: 17 | Symptoms: previously: constant urgency, premature ejaculation, burning at tip of penis, pelvic ache current: semi annual flares. | Helped By: PT, yoga, stretch, keeping warm(long johns) boxer briefs, regular sleep routine | Worsened By: cystoscopy, antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) alcohol, coffee, stress, masturbation, cold
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Hey good news everyone. It sounds like Dr. Wise may be making available for purchase an mp3 player with all of his paradoxical relaxation sessions already pre-installed. I'm supposed to correspond with him via email next Wednesday to find out the details. I'll keep everyone informed as to what I find out.
Age: 35 Onset Age: 31
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Symptoms: An almost constant feeling of the need to urinate all the time. Pain in the penis, at the tip, and "behind" the penis inside the pelvis. Also urethral pain after ejaculation. No rectal pain or symptoms at all.
Helped By: Hot baths, Dr. Wise's relaxation tapes. Internal trigger point work every two days with the Wise-Anderson Protocol wand.
Worsened By: Ejaculation (changes the pain to a burning sensation most times) Alcohol increases urinary frequency greatly. Falling "off the wagon" and not following the Wise-Anderson Protocol protocol.
Re: How Helpful is the Wise-Anderson Wand?
Agreed, I also paid a lot (like everyone) to visit the clinic, and take home the tapes. But in just 3.5 years, a huge amount of the tapes have now failed, leaving me a little SOL. I have two piles of tapes. One pile of "works", and one pile of "doesnt work". MP3s would be a relief. But thinking about having to pay a few hundred dollars to get them again makes me cringe.
Age: 30 | Onset Age:19 | Symptoms: Urethral burning pain (tip of penis), some reddening (inflammation) of the urethral opening intermittently, rectal pain off and on. | Helped By: Avoiding aggravating factors, Wise-Tapes, Mild PT stretches, Benzos, acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicine | Worsened By: Urination, Excessive Sex, Not enough exercise, Stress, Alcohol, Caffeine, Cold Weather.
Typical Disclaimer: My above post is not medical advice.
Typical Disclaimer: My above post is not medical advice.