By Tina Aswani Omprakash, Medically Reviewed by Jenny Blair, MD

Originally Published by Oshi Health, Inc., on August 8th, 2019

A complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that often goes unaddressed and misdiagnosed is chronic pelvic pain (CPP).

CPP is often defined as pain in the pelvic area that isn’t cyclic and isn’t related to pregnancy and that lasts for three to six months. It may affect from 6% to 25% of reproductive-age women, depending on how it’s defined, as well as men and older women. The condition can arise from a variety of causes.

How I’ve Experienced Pelvic Pain

So how does CPP apply to us as IBD patients? In my case, as someone living with Crohn’s, after many colorectal surgeries and given my perianal disease, I’ve developed CPP that requires constant management.

To read more, please visit https://www.oshihealth.com/pelvic-pain-in-ibd/.

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