What are the three most common types of pelvic pain you see in patients?
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Sep 5, 2018
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Dr. Larry Holland talks more about chronic pelvic pain.
What are the three most common types of pelvic pain you see in patients?
The three most common types of pelvic pain ... when you talk about chronic pelvic pain, it's ubiquitous in regards to there's many, many etiologies or causes of pain in general. And typically, chronic pain, you look at, it's usually been present for over six months. It's usually sub-umbilical, and there's usually some reason for treatment, or it affects their [inaudible 00:00:58] day living.
So when you look at the three most common of the chronic pelvic pain issues, I would say endometriosis is probably number one. I think we see a lot of what's called pelvic inflammatory disease. And I would also say that dysmenorrhea, or painful periods, would be another one as well.
Of those three, endometriosis can definitely affect fertility or subfertility, depending on the extent of it affects the pelvis. But dysmenorrhea will probably not affect fertility. That's more of a painful period situation. And the pelvic inflammatory disease could also affect fertility in regards to adhesion formation and affect the tubal function within the pelvis.