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Content warning: This story contains references to suicide and physical and emotional trauma, which may be upsetting or triggering for some readers.
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The only thing that stopped Zoe* from taking her own life was the love she had for her two children.
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But the indescribable chronic pain she was experiencing was all-encompassing. And none of her doctors—nearly a dozen—knew what was wrong. Worse, perhaps, they wrote her off, condescended her, passed her around from physician to physician.
“They washed their hands of me,” Zoe, now 48, tells Well+Good.
After a year of medication and doctor visits and dismissed cries for help, for what was first suspected (never confirmed) to be a urinary tract infection that morphed into excruciating pelvic pain, Zoe found herself speaking with a pelvic floor physical therapist.
She was diagnosed with a hypertonic—tight, overactive—pelvic floor. Now, the healing and treatment could begin.
What is the pelvic floor?
The pelvic floor is made of important muscles and tissue
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