Feeling extremely low and tearful due to some health issues and anxiety has gotten worse

[Shezzles321]

First of all I’m sorry if I’m posting on the wrong place , I’m new here and just needing to vent . Feeling so alone.
hi everyone ,

Sometimes I don’t even know where to post issues like this but my anxiety and panic has been so exasperated this past month.

About a month ago I started feeling a lot of pressure and pain down below , like my pelvic floor muscles are constantly contracting , feeling desperate for a wee but hardly going and the pressure is still there etc constant debilitating pain , these symptoms felt like they came out the blue from 0 to 100 pain levels overnight pretty much. This past month I’ve been in and out the doctors , had a CT scan , ultrasound abdominal and vaginal been to A and E etc and they can’t seem to find anything wrong with me ?! Nothing showed up on any scans . I need to talk to the doctors on Monday and ask if there’s any other tests that can get to the bottom of this - I’m starting to think it could be my pelvic floor muscles or something like that ?!! I just don’t quite understand how it’s all come on so quickly , unless I have potentially strained myself or injured down below but not realising at the time . Pelvic floor dysfunction or injury ?? I just don’t know at this point , the pain has honestly been unbearable for me even with prescription meds like tramadol , codeine and naproxen nothing is easing it and because I don’t know still exactly what is going on I don’t know whether I should be resting or doing certain pelvic excercises etc all I know is it’s been so painful and feels like I’m constantly desperate for a wee with so much pressure and muscle contractions . It’s a long shot but has anyone else ever had this , or advice on what I should do or even speak to the doctors about ?! I do have Children but they are 14 and 10 so not a birthing injury or anything like that .
the constant unrelieved pain and me still not having a definitive answer is making me feel so ill at the moment , I feel like my anxiety and panic attacks are coming back full force as the pain has been getting unbearable ( it’s difficult because I’m wondering if anxiety makes it worse too so I’m going round in cirlcles)

Sorry for the rant everyone but I’m genuinely feeling so lost and in a really bad place with this at the moment , I don’t want to be in this much discomfort and not understanding why or what I can do . I don’t have a massive support system . I live with my partner and children and my mum lives abroad . Never felt so lost in my life and like I’m just not coping anymore .

It’s almost like I’m having to tell the doctors what is wrong with me by researching as I don’t think they understand what it is which is why I’ve had ct and ultrasound . I’m not a doctor so I don’t know either I just want to get to the bottom of it in terms of understanding and what I can do to help myself .
im struggling to eat or sleep and worried about losing more weight as I’m 8 stone now and I’ve lost half a stone this past month due to the debilitating pain and anxiety it’s caused . My thought process is going down the route of ‘ I don’t know what it is , doctors don’t know am I always going to be in this much pain’

Sorry for the essay but I just needed an outlet to get my feelings and frustrations out . Never experienced anything like this before .
thanks for reading .

Sorry to hear you are struggling so much. I have suffered from interstitial cystitis (bladder pain without the infection) for decades. Im in my late 40s now. In the beginning I had every test going and it took over my life. It's now well managed on a low dose of amytripteline, which is specifically good for bladder disorders.
Some of what you are describing sounds very much like what I went through before i was diagnosed. Stress didnt cause it but made it worse. Intense pressure and pain in bladder area. Have you seen a urologist or a gynaecologist yet? It may be something else, but It's good that you have had tests to help rule out anything sinister. Try and take some comfort in the fact that nothing has shown up. You could ask about a bladder cystoscopy under GA.

It sounds like thrush or something. Have you tried a pessary?

It sounds like some sort of uti? I’d also say look into interstitial cystitis, the symptoms can be odd I think. Really sorry OP, sounds miserable.

@SmailandI doubt it. Never known thrush causing people such intense pain that codeine wouldn't touch (although it can be v unpleasant).

I’ve had thrush this bad. No discharge, didn’t look like thrush. But it was so painful and felt like I needed a wee all the time. I was sobbing with pain and couldn’t sleep. Had loads of antibiotics because they thought it was a UTI, but eventually it was cured by thrush pessaries. If OP is in pain it’s worth considering.

@Smailandsounds awful!

I’m so sorry for the anguish this causes.

With them not wanting to acknowledge small fibroids, could it possibly be that, I know for just over 2 years the pelvic pressure at times was unbareable along with trouble toileting (it all very weirdly started as a numb tummy feeling which the medics were quick to wanted to label as nerve damage as all part of another condition which was cursing at the time) to the point 2 years on I now feel quite hollow when walking and it’s a feat to get back to how I felt pre fibroid, where over time I’d just gotten used to it as a norm.

Definitely check the reports of any tests yourself.