hello friends
some of you may have followed my story via prostate - epididymis journey to success.
I have been feeling great lately. I have had so many symptoms!! such a long story and you can read in my other post. But, essentially I found significant relief by:
1 - leanring to relax and sit still - first trying this caused me major anxiety. my muscles would spasm and ache and surely i would have given up or accepted that I had restless leg syndrome BUT I am truly learning o allow my body to enter a full state of relaxation and it felt horroble for a long time - this is imprtant: FOR AWHILE RELAXING MADE ME FEEL WORSE!!! who wants to be mindful and pay attention to their body when it makes me panic??!!!??! well, i kept on doing it and felt alot better!!
2 - learn to strech and strengthen the pelvic and lower back muscles. strecthing has done wonders. I use a big yoga ball, an inversion table and lots of strecthing. Use a tens machine, go to a massgae therapist, GO TO A PELVIC FLOOR SPECIALIST!!!!!
3 - Read: "teach us to sit still" by Tim something. he talks about the other book - Headache in the pelvis
4. LEARN TO DEEP BREATHE ALL THE TIME - cannot stress this enough
5. LEARN ALOT about the pelvic splanchic nerves - this explains so much
6. eat a low sugar, low refined carb, low garbage diet- this include drinking LOTS of WATER - peeing all the time is going to happen til you learn to relax the pelvic muscles which control the bladder. if you get constipated and start to strain, this create major triggerpoint knots in the pelvis
7. I used an accu ball to find trigger points near / in rectum, perenium, bladder, hip flexors etc. finding them a relieving them was paramount.
8. I also increased my SSRI - it helped me to realx and my muscle tension decreased so much and my pain became less catastrophic
I am a victim of the prostate catatastrophe cycle. goes like this:
you get an infection. you have to pee all the time so you panic naturally. I'd rather have a major issue in my elbow than a minor issue with my balls that i dont know how to cure.....so men naturally pain when they get a prostate infection for the first time or any infection down there - the stress cause muscle tension. the muscle tension causes all sorts of strange pain down there which refers to the balls prostate and rectum which make us panic more and eventually the cylce spins out of control!
PS - I believe alot of men's 'so called' prostate issues is from myofascial trigger points. i have peer reviewed journal articles at home. Also peer reviewed article that showed Candida was issue in epididymis.
PS - I still have epididymitis pain BUT not nearly as bad since major lifestyle changes. these have to be second order changes. 1st order changes occur when we find a new way to treat something. but in time we revert back to our old ways. for me, stress, bad diet, muscle tension cause my epi issues to really flare up
PS my epididymis issue and my pelvic pain are related but not directly related. the morer I can loosen up the area and get relaxed the more blood floow to epi
I am not cured by a long shot but I feel alot better!!!! If this is as good as it gets, then I am happy. I lived with so much proatate, ball, rectum, and mystery pain for so long. tight muscles is a HUGE part of this problem. see fi you have any pubocoyygeus spasms during sex / masturbation and after - start epxloring all the muscles down there during and outside of sexual function, bowel emptying and bladder emptying. I noticed I always had to pee as soon as I relaxed which sucked....until I discovered that if I realxed completely while peeing then I got alot more out.
if you make a ton of trips to bathropom at night - then try this for ten nights.
1. Before bed, calm your mind. if your mind races then you have to overcome this. I am a follower of Jesus Christ so i try to meditate on a bible verse or pray for health.
2. practice deep breathing
3. strech for at least thirty minutes - do strecthes specific to pelvis area - hip flexors glutes, piriformis, PC massage using accu-ball
4. then go to bed and see if you can 'melt into bed' without mind racing and without tensing. I quickly learned that when i TRULY / COMPLETELY tried to realx and melt into bed that I was holding all sorts of tension in my legs, pelvis etc. it was so hard to realx these mucscle and takes weeks of practice - maybe months for some - before I was able to 'let go of the tension i was holding.
then GUESS WHAT? after a few weeks I stopped gettign up to pee 5-6 time and now only pee once or twice at most. I woke up at 4am the other night and had a thunderous pee - I was so realxed for the first time in my life!!!!! it felt so good
the pelic muscles are often involuntary and cannot be relaxed without creating homeostasis in the autnomic system (parasympatetic and sympathetic) homeostatis is acheived by deep breathing!
PS I seem to have flare ups when I eat junk food in excess - I dont know if the junk creates constipations, muscle tension, bacterial issues or what not
I DONT HAVE THIS ALL FIGURED OUT - but I do feel alot better - I still have an odd epididymis flare up but hey - I am just a broken man passing through.
ask yourself:
do you worry alot?
are you in a rush often
Are you prone to depression / emotional instability?
hard to sit still?
hard to relax muscles
hard to watch a whole movie without relaxing
always think the worst will happen?
had prior infections?
eat lots of junk food and little veggies?
thuink it will never get better?
if you daid yes - then you need to make some changes!
thanks for listenig and thanks for all the help!!!!!!
some of you may have followed my story via prostate - epididymis journey to success.
I have been feeling great lately. I have had so many symptoms!! such a long story and you can read in my other post. But, essentially I found significant relief by:
1 - leanring to relax and sit still - first trying this caused me major anxiety. my muscles would spasm and ache and surely i would have given up or accepted that I had restless leg syndrome BUT I am truly learning o allow my body to enter a full state of relaxation and it felt horroble for a long time - this is imprtant: FOR AWHILE RELAXING MADE ME FEEL WORSE!!! who wants to be mindful and pay attention to their body when it makes me panic??!!!??! well, i kept on doing it and felt alot better!!
2 - learn to strech and strengthen the pelvic and lower back muscles. strecthing has done wonders. I use a big yoga ball, an inversion table and lots of strecthing. Use a tens machine, go to a massgae therapist, GO TO A PELVIC FLOOR SPECIALIST!!!!!
3 - Read: "teach us to sit still" by Tim something. he talks about the other book - Headache in the pelvis
4. LEARN TO DEEP BREATHE ALL THE TIME - cannot stress this enough
5. LEARN ALOT about the pelvic splanchic nerves - this explains so much
6. eat a low sugar, low refined carb, low garbage diet- this include drinking LOTS of WATER - peeing all the time is going to happen til you learn to relax the pelvic muscles which control the bladder. if you get constipated and start to strain, this create major triggerpoint knots in the pelvis
7. I used an accu ball to find trigger points near / in rectum, perenium, bladder, hip flexors etc. finding them a relieving them was paramount.
8. I also increased my SSRI - it helped me to realx and my muscle tension decreased so much and my pain became less catastrophic
I am a victim of the prostate catatastrophe cycle. goes like this:
you get an infection. you have to pee all the time so you panic naturally. I'd rather have a major issue in my elbow than a minor issue with my balls that i dont know how to cure.....so men naturally pain when they get a prostate infection for the first time or any infection down there - the stress cause muscle tension. the muscle tension causes all sorts of strange pain down there which refers to the balls prostate and rectum which make us panic more and eventually the cylce spins out of control!
PS - I believe alot of men's 'so called' prostate issues is from myofascial trigger points. i have peer reviewed journal articles at home. Also peer reviewed article that showed Candida was issue in epididymis.
PS - I still have epididymitis pain BUT not nearly as bad since major lifestyle changes. these have to be second order changes. 1st order changes occur when we find a new way to treat something. but in time we revert back to our old ways. for me, stress, bad diet, muscle tension cause my epi issues to really flare up
PS my epididymis issue and my pelvic pain are related but not directly related. the morer I can loosen up the area and get relaxed the more blood floow to epi
I am not cured by a long shot but I feel alot better!!!! If this is as good as it gets, then I am happy. I lived with so much proatate, ball, rectum, and mystery pain for so long. tight muscles is a HUGE part of this problem. see fi you have any pubocoyygeus spasms during sex / masturbation and after - start epxloring all the muscles down there during and outside of sexual function, bowel emptying and bladder emptying. I noticed I always had to pee as soon as I relaxed which sucked....until I discovered that if I realxed completely while peeing then I got alot more out.
if you make a ton of trips to bathropom at night - then try this for ten nights.
1. Before bed, calm your mind. if your mind races then you have to overcome this. I am a follower of Jesus Christ so i try to meditate on a bible verse or pray for health.
2. practice deep breathing
3. strech for at least thirty minutes - do strecthes specific to pelvis area - hip flexors glutes, piriformis, PC massage using accu-ball
4. then go to bed and see if you can 'melt into bed' without mind racing and without tensing. I quickly learned that when i TRULY / COMPLETELY tried to realx and melt into bed that I was holding all sorts of tension in my legs, pelvis etc. it was so hard to realx these mucscle and takes weeks of practice - maybe months for some - before I was able to 'let go of the tension i was holding.
then GUESS WHAT? after a few weeks I stopped gettign up to pee 5-6 time and now only pee once or twice at most. I woke up at 4am the other night and had a thunderous pee - I was so realxed for the first time in my life!!!!! it felt so good
the pelic muscles are often involuntary and cannot be relaxed without creating homeostasis in the autnomic system (parasympatetic and sympathetic) homeostatis is acheived by deep breathing!
PS I seem to have flare ups when I eat junk food in excess - I dont know if the junk creates constipations, muscle tension, bacterial issues or what not
I DONT HAVE THIS ALL FIGURED OUT - but I do feel alot better - I still have an odd epididymis flare up but hey - I am just a broken man passing through.
ask yourself:
do you worry alot?
are you in a rush often
Are you prone to depression / emotional instability?
hard to sit still?
hard to relax muscles
hard to watch a whole movie without relaxing
always think the worst will happen?
had prior infections?
eat lots of junk food and little veggies?
thuink it will never get better?
if you daid yes - then you need to make some changes!
thanks for listenig and thanks for all the help!!!!!!