Chronic Pelvic Pain

Chronic pelvic pain plagues many women per year. It is not a single disease entity, but a collection of symptoms with a variety of causes. Some of the causes are:

• Endometriosis
• Adenomyosis
• Irritable bowel syndrome, intestinal dismotility, or chronic constipation
• Interstitial cystitis
• Chronic low back and disc disease
• Fibroid uterus
• Recurrent ovarian cysts
• Nerve entrapment or adhesive disease
• Chronic vulvovaginitis

At the Johns Hopkins Center for Chronic Pelvic Pain, we have a variety of specialists who evaluate and treat the above symptoms. Using state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities, causes for chronic pelvic pain are sought and treatments developed.