Genital

pain Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, ...

and pelvic pain can arise from a variety of conditions, crimes, trauma, medical treatments, physical diseases,

mental illness A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitti ...

and infections. In some instances the pain is consensual and self-induced. Self-induced pain can be a cause for concern and may require a psychiatric evaluation. In other instances the infliction of pain is consensual but caused by another person (such as in surgery or tattooing). In other instances, the pain is vague" and difficult to localize. Abdominal pain can be related to conditions related to reproductive and urinary tissues and organs. Those with pain in the genital and pelvic regions can have dysfunctional voiding or defecation. Pain in this region of the body can be associated with anxiety, depression and other psycho-social factors. In addition, this pain can have effects on activities of daily living or quality of life. Treatment can be symptomatic if the pathology is unknown and managed by physical therapy, counseling and medication.

Common to women and men

* anal fissure * bladder mucosal inflammation *

bladder pain syndrome Interstitial cystitis (IC), a type of bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is chronic pain in the Urinary bladder, bladder and pelvic floor of unknown cause. It is the urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome of women. Symptoms include urinary urgency, feel ...

* body modification * constipation * cystitis *

dyspareunia Dyspareunia ( ) is painful sexual intercourse due to medical or psychological causes. The term ''dyspareunia'' covers both female dyspareunia and male dyspareunia, but many discussions that use the term without further specification concern the f ...

defecation Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus. The act has a variety of names ranging f ...

epidermal cyst The epidermis is the outermost of the three layers that comprise the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis. The epidermis layer provides a barrier to infection from environmental pathogens and regulates the amount of water relea ...

epiploic appendagitis Epiploic appendagitis (EA) is an uncommon, benign, self-limiting inflammatory process of the epiploic appendices. Other, older terms for the process include appendicitis epiploica and appendagitis, but these terms are used less now in order to avo ...

* genital modification and mutilation * genital piercing * genital warts *

hematoma A hematoma, also spelled haematoma, or blood suffusion is a localized bleeding outside of blood vessels, due to either disease or trauma including injury or surgery and may involve blood continuing to seep from broken capillary, capillaries. A he ...

hematometra Hematometra is a medical condition involving collection or retention of blood in the uterus. It is most commonly caused by an imperforate hymen or a transverse vaginal septum. Signs and symptoms Hematometra typically presents as cyclic, cramping p ...

hematosalpinx Hematosalpinx (sometimes also hemosalpinx) is a medical condition involving bleeding into the fallopian tubes. Symptoms A hematosalpinx from a tubal pregnancy may be associated with pelvic pain and uterine bleeding. A gynecologic ultrasound will ...

* hematuria * herpes genitalis * increased anal resting pressures * infibulation * interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome * kidney stone * levator ani syndrome * Molluscum contagiosum * pelvic congestion syndrome * pelvic floor muscle spasm * persistent genital arousal disorder * polyuria * proctalgia fugax *

pubic piercing A pubic piercing is a body piercing in the pubic area, on the mons pubis in females, or at the base of the penis in males. Healing times are at around 3–4 months. The rejection rate is around the same as well - that is, higher than most "conven ...

* rape * rectal prolapse *

sexual assault Sexual assault is an act in which one intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will. It is a form of sexual violence, which ...

* sebaceous cyst * sex toys *

sexual intercourse Sexual intercourse (or coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity typically involving the insertion and thrusting of the penis into the vagina for sexual pleasure or reproduction.Sexual intercourse most commonly means penile–vaginal penetrat ...

* rough foreplay *

strangury Strangury (or stranguria) is the symptom characterized by painful, frequent urination of small volumes that are expelled slowly only by straining and despite a severe sense of urgency, usually with the residual feeling of incomplete emptying. The ...

* urinary frequency * urinary incontinence * urinary retention * shaving pubic hair * wound dehiscence

Females

* adhesions *

adenomyosis Adenomyosis is a medical condition characterized by the growth of cells that proliferate on the inside of the uterus (endometrium) atypically located among the cells of the uterine wall (myometrium), as a result, thickening of the uterus occurs. A ...

* Bartholin's cyst * biopsy *

cervical motion tenderness Cervical motion tenderness or cervical excitation is a sign found on a gynecological pelvic examination suggestive of pelvic pathology. Classically, it is present in the setting of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) or ectopic pregnancy and is of ...

* Primary dysmenorrhoea * contact dermatitis *

ectopic pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy is a complication of pregnancy in which the embryo attaches outside the uterus. Signs and symptoms classically include abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding, but fewer than 50 percent of affected women have both of these symptoms. ...

* endometrial biopsy * endometrial polyp *

endometriosis Endometriosis is a disease of the female reproductive system in which cells similar to those in the endometrium, the layer of tissue that normally covers the inside of the uterus, grow outside the uterus. Most often this is on the ovaries, f ...

* endometriosis of ovary * folliculitis * female genital prolapse *

follicular cyst of ovary The follicular cyst of the ovary is a type of functional simple cyst, and is the most common type of ovarian cyst. Signs and symptoms Its rupture can create sharp, severe pain on the side of the ovary on which the cyst appears. This sharp pain (s ...

* labor * Lichen simplex chronicus * Lichen sclerosus * Lichen planus *

miscarriage Miscarriage, also known in medical terms as a spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently. Miscarriage before 6 weeks of gestation is defined by ESHRE as biochemical lo ...

* imperforate hymen *

intraepithelial neoplasia Intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN) is the development of a benign neoplasia or high-grade dysplasia in an epithelium. The exact dividing line between dysplasia and neoplasia has been very difficult to draw throughout the era of medical science. It ...

* labial trauma *

Mittelschmerz ''Mittelschmerz'' (German: "middle pain") is a colloquial term for "ovulation pain" or "midcycle pain". About 20% of women experience mittelschmerz, some every cycle, some intermittently. Signs and symptoms Mittelschmerz is characterized by lo ...

ovarian apoplexy Ovarian apoplexy is a sudden rupture in the ovary, commonly at the site of a cyst, accompanied by hemorrhage in the ovarian tissue and/or intraperitoneal bleeding. Symptoms and signs Clinical symptoms of apoplexy associated with the basic mechani ...

* ovarian cyst * ovarian torsion * pelvic congestion syndrome *

pelvic inflammatory disease Pelvic inflammatory disease, also known as pelvic inflammatory disorder (PID), is an infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system, namely the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries, and inside of the pelvis. Often, there may be no ...

* Abscess of broad ligament * Abscess of parametrium *

pelvic cellulitis Cellulitis is usually a bacterial infection involving the inner layers of the skin. It specifically affects the dermis and subcutaneous fat. Signs and symptoms include an area of redness which increases in size over a few days. The borders of th ...

* pregnancy *

Sjögren syndrome Sjögren syndrome or Sjögren's syndrome (SjS, SS) is a Chronic disease, long-term autoimmune disease that affects the body's moisture-producing (lacrimal and salivary) glands, and often seriously affects other organ systems, such as the lungs, k ...

* urinary tract infection * uterine prolapse *

vaginal dryness Vaginal lubrication is a naturally produced fluid that lubricates a vagina. Vaginal lubrication is always present, but production increases significantly near ovulation and during sexual arousal in anticipation of sexual intercourse. Vaginal ...

* vaginismus * vesico-uterine pouch * vulvodynia * vulva tumor * vaginal bleeding * vaginoplasty *

vulvar vestibulitis Vulvar vestibulitis syndrome (VVS), vestibulodynia, or simply vulvar vestibulitis, is vulvodynia localized to the vulvar vestibule. It tends to be associated with a highly localized "burning" or "cutting" type of pain. Until recently, "vulvar vesti ...

* vulvar skin cracks and bleeds * vulvectomy

Males

* benign prostatic hyperplasia * chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome * deep shaft piercing * dysuria * epididymitis * epididymal hypertension * spermatocele * intracavernous injection *

hydrocele A hydrocele is an accumulation of serous fluid in a body cavity. A hydrocele testis, the most common form of hydrocele, is the accumulation of fluids around a testicle. It is often caused by fluid collecting within a layer wrapped around the testi ...

subcutaneous emphysema Subcutaneous emphysema (SCE, SE) occurs when gas or air accumulates and seeps under the skin, where normally no gas should be present. ''Subcutaneous'' refers to the subcutaneous tissue, and ''emphysema'' refers to trapped air pockets resembling t ...

* impaling * hematocele * radiation proctitis * inguinal hernia *

epididymo-orchitis Epididymitis is a medical condition characterized by inflammation of the epididymis, a curved structure at the back of the testicle. Onset of pain is typically over a day or two. The pain may improve with raising the testicle. Other symptoms may ...

* Fournier's gangrene *

air embolism An air embolism, also known as a gas embolism, is a blood vessel blockage caused by one or more bubbles of air or other gas in the circulatory system. Air can be introduced into the circulation during surgical procedures, lung over-expansion i ...

* post-vasectomy pain syndrome * testicular torsion * scrotal cellulitis * Paget's disease of the scrotum * impotence * penis constriction * retrograde ejaculation * self-injection of saline solution * urethral sounding * urolithiasis *

tamakeri A chastity device designed to cause pain to the penis if it becomes erect. Cock and ball torture (CBT), occasionally known as penis torture, dick torture, or male genitorture/male genital torture, is a sexual activity involving the applicati ...

* testicular cancer * varicocele * Injecting air or another gas into the penis *

penile strangulation A penile injury is a medical emergency that afflicts the human penis, penis. Common injuries include Penile fracture, fracture, avulsion injury, strangulation, entrapment, and amputation. Epidemiology Penetrating and blunt traumas combined make ...

* penile incarceration

Children

child abuse Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to a ...

* dermatitis * imperforate hymen * pinworms

Treatments

Analgesic An analgesic drug, also called simply an analgesic (American English), analgaesic (British English), pain reliever, or painkiller, is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve relief from pain (that is, analgesia or pain management). It ...

Cordotomy Cordotomy (or chordotomy) is a surgical procedure that disables selected pain-conducting tracts in the spinal cord, in order to achieve loss of pain and temperature perception. This procedure is commonly performed on patients experiencing severe ...

* Medical lubricant * Personal lubricant

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Symptoms Signs and symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced symptoms of an disease, illness, injury, or condition. A sign for example may be a higher or lower temperature than normal, raised or lowered blood pressure or an abnormali ...

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