Pelvic Pain Support Network

PO BOX 6559
Poole
Dorset
BH12 9DP

Web: www.pelvicpain.org.uk

The Pelvic Pain Support Network is a charity which has developed from the local independent endometriosis support group based in Poole, Dorset. It is a patient led organization with a board of trustees who are all patients or carers, and is run entirely by volunteers. They have an advisory panel of clinicians, researchers and health professionals who have an interest in pelvic pain from many areas of expertise and countries including the USA, France, Germany and the UK.

Their main aims are:

• To provide support, information and advocacy for those with pelvic pain, their families and carers.
• To promote the education of the public and the medical profession by raising awareness in all matters relating to pelvic pain and its treatments.
• The advancement of research to increase knowledge and understanding of the impact of pelvic pain.

Conditions covered include:

• Adenomyosis
• Adhesions
• Dysmenorrhoea (Painful Periods)
• Endometriosis
• Fibroids
• Fibromyalgia
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Nerve damage (Sciatic, Pudendal, Ilio-inguinal)
• Ovarian Remnant Syndrome
• Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
• Pudendal Neuralgia
• Painful Bladder Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis (PBS/IC)
• Vulvodynia
• Ovarian cysts
• Low back pain
• Chronic prostatitis
• Chronic pelvic pain syndrome

And many other less common conditions.