Talk:Proctalgia fugax

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Misconceptions corrected: Occurrences can be several times a month, not just 6 times a year. Length of episodes can be as much as 1hr 45 mins each not just up to 30 minutes. Episode comes at anytime during the day or night, not just at night.

Standing up and moving around increase the pain, not decrease it. This is not a mental issue, it is intense pains that starts in one area around the anal area and can move around the area of the anus to the complete opposite side during on episode.

Albuterol inhaler does seem to help decrease the pain and duration, sometimes.

I hope someone out there has a cure. If so, let us know to save us from this horrible problem.

Corrections Concurred:

Can and will occur at any time of day. Like right before you leave for work... when you don't have time to deal with it. Can also last for a couple hours, though, but usually doesn't if you have the time to sit still on the toilet while keeping your bowels open (trying to defecate). That really seems to help more than anything else imagineable, and keeps the pain much less sharp.

Corrections contradicted: For me, it is often best to get up and pace during a episode. For 6 years I kept a diary of my episodes. I could not correlate them with foods eaten, or stress level, or mood... not anything that I could detect.

[edit] Additional remedies

Many discussions on medical and/or sexual health forums, state that the only way that they have gained relief is via masturbation/orgasm.