It is critical to first be diagnosed for pudendal neuralgia before you seek and receive any treatments. 

For example, you would take take insulin if you had not first been diagnosed with diabetes.

 

Regrettably, some doctors perform many treatments

just to make money.  If this occurs PNA advises you find another doctor and

the one you're seeing lacks integrity and could put your health at risk.

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In 2007, A group of eight French pudendal neuralgia specialists,in Nantes, France, validated a set of simple diagnostic criteria which is considered the gold standard for diagnosis now known as The Nantes Criteria published in Wiley-Blackwell, British Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly Journal.

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The Nantes criteria "Aims: The diagnosis of pudendal neuralgia syndrome is essentially clinical. There are no Pathognomonic criteria, but various clinical features can be suggestive of the diagnosis. We defined criteria that can Materials andmethods: A working party has validated a set of simple diagnostic criteria. Results:

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The Five Essentials Diagnostic criteria

(all must be present) are:

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     1.  Pain in anatomical territory of the pudendal nerve

     2.  Worsened by sitting

     3.  The patient is not woken at night by the pain

     4.   No objective sensory loss on clinical examination

     5.   Positive anesthetic pudendal nerve block

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The Diagnostic Anesthetic Pudendal Nerve Block is explained in detail

with diagrams in the dropdown tab to this one, "Diagnosis"

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1 Jean-Jacques Labat , Thibault Riant, Roger Robert, Gérard Amarenco, Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur, Jérôme Rigaud

Affiliations Service d'Urologie, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France.

PMID: 17828787 DOI: 10.1002/nau.20505  2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc.  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17828787/

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