Mask: Pgad from antidepressants

[Mask]

21 minutes ago, Altostrata said:

What would common sense suggest you do about riding your bike?

Happy birthday Alto ❤

[ChessieCat]

1 hour ago, Mask said:

i have to do daily activities on bike...like shopping,work,university...i dont have car here so on bike i have to do daily tasks....but for now i am considering to totally avoid bike ....my pain has gone again for now because i didnt ride on bike the whole week....but i am worried how i will do my daily task....without bike....i have to do groccery for that i need bike....everything...

 

Because the pain is starting to go away since you stopped riding your bike it seems that riding the bike is causing the problem.  Taking drugs for this problem is not a solution and could make things worse in other ways for you.

 

I suggest you do some research about how you might be able to overcome the problem.  This might mean changing the bicycle seat and/or wearing cycling shorts and/or reducing the number of times/length of time you ride your bike and/or finding alternative transport.  Please note that SA is a site for tapering/reducing psychiatric drugs.  You now know that it is the bike riding which is causing the pudendal neuralgia.  It is not related to psychiatric drugs.  We cannot help you with your pudendal neuralgia so please do not continue to discuss it here.  It is your responsibility to find a solution to this problem.

 

Do a search for:  bike seat causing Pudendal Neuralgia 

 

 

Edited July 5, 2020 by ChessieCat

[normalhuman]

On 7/5/2020 at 6:23 PM, ChessieCat said:

s.  You now know that it is the bike riding which is causing the pudendal neuralgia.  It is not related to psychiatric drugs. 

Chessiecat and Mask,

 

Just an FYI, I’ve had this issue (pudendal neuralgia from riding a bike) which ONLY started while in withdrawal with many other odd nerve sensitivities and just talked to a woman yesterday on a forum about hers as well. I did cycling classes for a decade and never had pelvic pain and then had withdrawal and now deal with excruciating pudendal neuralgia. It’s one of the many issues I got from going off psych meds. Just because something is caused by bicycle seat pressure doesn’t mean the hypersensitivity and inflammation wasn’t necessarily caused from psych meds. There’s plenty of people with sciatica and PGAD as well which obviously experience nerve issues and it’s kosher to attribute PGAD and PSSD to psych meds. I think it’s good for people to be able to talk about their symptoms so other people are aware others have had the same issue. Sure not every problem is from psych meds/ withdrawal but the inflammation that can cause a downstream effect should also be able to be discussed.