Some women will suffer from cyclical pelvic pain which is where the pain occurs during the time of your menstrual cycle and is often associated with painful periods or endometriosis.
Chronic Pelvic Pain is when the pain is present most days and may be due to endometriosis, adenomyosis or other related conditions listed below. In some cases, CPP can be non-gynaecological and might relate to bladder, gastrointestinal, neurological or musculoskeletal conditions.
Sometimes with CPP, there can be more than one condition present at the same time causing pain.
There are a number of primary pain factors that may result in Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP). These include, endometriosis, adenomyosis or infections. While pain usually indicates specific injury to some part of the body, CPP is very different. Often the initial problem is addressed, or the severity of the symptoms lessened, but the pain persists because of changes to the nervous system, muscles or other tissues. For instance, you often feel muscles tense when you have been injured around the area of trauma. Similarly, local disturbances occur in the pelvis, affecting the bowel, bladder, muscles, connective tissue and nerves of the pelvis (the secondary pain factors), Often these secondary factors become the predominant problem, overshadowing the original disease process which may no longer be detectable.
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