Not exact matches
In a case where the cause of
pelvic pain is
from an
infection, antibiotics can kill the organism responsible for the disease but they can't stop the pain.
Since there's a wide range of symptoms associated with
pelvic floor dysfunction, the condition is often misdiagnosed as anything
from a bladder
infection to endometriosis to, as in Mamet's case, psychosis.
There is a growing understanding that the microbial composition of the digestive system, urogenital system, and urine of women with
pelvic pain conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), interstitial cystitis (IC), and chronic yeast
infections varies
from those in healthy women.
The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise
from a long - term gonorrheal
infection, such as
pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.