Scrotum, Groin, and Pelvic Floor Pressure and Pain and Anxiety

Treatment

When this symptom is caused or aggravated by other factors, addressing those factors can reduce and eliminate scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain.

When this symptom is caused by an anxiety-triggered stress response, calming yourself will end the active stress response and its changes. Acute scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain will subside as your body recovers from the active stress response.

Keep in mind that it can take up to 20 minutes or more for the body to recover from a major stress response. But this is normal and shouldn’t be a cause for concern.

When chronic scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain are caused by hyperstimulation, eliminating hyperstimulation will end this anxiety symptom.

You can reduce and eliminate hyperstimulation by:

• Containing anxious behavior.
• Reducing stress.
• Regular deep relaxation.
• Relaxed diaphragmatic breathing.
• Regular light to moderate exercise.
• Getting regular good sleep.
• Eating a healthy diet of whole and natural foods.
• Avoiding stimulants.
• Passively-accepting your symptoms until they subside.
• Being patient as your body recovers.

Visit our “60 Natural Ways To Reduce Stress” article for more ways to reduce stress.

Recovery Support members can read chapters 5,6, 7, and 14 for more ways to reduce stress.

As the body recovers from hyperstimulation, it stops sending symptoms of hyperstimulation, including scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain.

However, eliminating hyperstimulation can take much longer than most people think, causing symptoms to linger longer than expected.

As long as the body is hyperstimulated, even slightly, it can present symptoms of any type, number, intensity, duration, frequency, and at any time, including this one.

Even so, since scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain are common symptoms of stress (acute and chronic), including anxiety-caused stress, it's harmless and needn't be a cause for concern. It will subside when unhealthy stress has been eliminated, and the body has had sufficient time to recover and stabilize.

Anxiety symptoms often linger because:

• The body is still stressed (from stressful circumstances or anxious behavior).
• Stress hasn't been sufficiently reduced or for long enough.
• The body hasn't completed its recovery work.

Addressing the reason for lingering symptoms will allow the body to recover.

As the body recovers from hyperstimulation and stabilizes, all chronic anxiety symptoms will slowly diminish and eventually subside, including this one.

Since worrying and becoming upset about anxiety symptoms stress the body, these behaviors can interfere with and stall recovery.

Passively accepting your symptoms – allowing them to persist without reacting to, resisting, worrying about, or fighting them – while doing your recovery work will cause their cessation in time.

Acceptance, practice, and patience are key to recovery.

Since the body can take a long time to recover from hyperstimulation, it's best to faithfully work at your recovery despite the lack of apparent progress. If you persevere with your recovery work, you will succeed.

You also have to do your recovery work FIRST before your body can recover. The cumulative effects of your recovery work will produce results down the road. And hyperstimulation has to diminish before symptoms can subside.

Eliminating hyperstimulation will bring results in time!

If you have trouble with eliminating hyperstimulation, the Recovery Support area has many resources to help with recovery.

Short-term Remedies

Even though eliminating stress and chronic stress (hyperstimulation) will eliminate this symptom, some people have found the following strategies helpful.

However, keep in mind that each person can have a unique symptom experience since each person is somewhat physically, chemically, psychologically, and emotionally unique. What might work for one person might not for another.

• Reduce stress – Since all anxiety symptoms are stress-related, reducing stress can alleviate this symptom. There are many ways to reduce stress. Recovery Support members can read about many natural stress reduction strategies in Chapter 14.

• Regular good sleep – Getting good sleep each night (6.5 to 8 hours per night) can significantly reduce stress, which can improve all anxiety symptoms, including scrotum, groin, and pelvic floor pressure and pain.

• Regular deep relaxation – Regular deep relaxation is a great way to reduce stress and overall stimulation. As stress and stimulation diminish, so will anxiety symptoms, including this one.

• Regular light to moderate exercise – Regular exercise reduces stress and can relax and tone tight muscles. However, we don’t recommend strenuous exercise since it stresses the body.

• Apply heat: Use a warm pack or heating pad over the pelvic area for 15-20 minutes. This can provide immediate relief and help relax tense muscles.

• Practice pelvic floor relaxation: Focus on consciously relaxing your pelvic floor muscles. This can help trigger the calming parasympathetic nervous system.

• Relaxed diaphragmatic breathing: Engage in slow, relaxed breaths to reduce tension and promote relaxation throughout your body, including the pelvic area.

• Gentle stretching: Perform light stretches targeting the pelvic region to help release muscle tension.

• Use over-the-counter pain relievers: Take ibuprofen or acetaminophen as directed to reduce inflammation and pain.

• Mindfulness techniques: Practice mindfulness or meditation to help manage stress and anxiety, which can contribute to pelvic tension.

• Take a warm bath: Soaking in warm water can help relax muscles and provide relief from pain and pressure.

• Avoid tight clothing: Wear loose-fitting clothing to reduce pressure on the affected area.

• Gentle massage: Carefully massage the surrounding areas to promote blood flow and muscle relaxation.

• Maintain good posture: Pay attention to your posture, as poor posture can contribute to pelvic floor tension.

• Avoid sitting on hard surfaces: Sitting on hard surfaces can irritate the pelvic floor, aggravating this symptom.

• Avoid stimulants – Stimulants bring about their stimulating effect by causing the secretion of stress hormones. To reduce stress and symptoms, we need to decrease stimulation, not increase it.

• Eat a healthy diet – An unhealthy diet of high sugar, high fat, and fast foods can fuel anxiety and hyperstimulation symptoms. Eating a healthy diet of whole and natural foods can help the body recover.

Additional Comments

Sitting for long periods can cause and aggravate this symptom. If your work requires you to sit a lot, we recommend getting up every 30 minutes to move around or walk. Standing up and walking will help to loosen tight groin and pelvic floor muscles despite long hours of sitting.

Try changing your work position regularly. For example, rather than sitting all the time, you should stand up to perform your tasks intermittently. The alternation between standing and sitting can help alleviate tense groin and pelvic floor muscles.

Also, you should exercise your pelvic floor muscles to be more flexible and resilient to tension.

Therapy

Unidentified and unaddressed underlying factors cause issues with anxiety. As such, they are the primary reason why anxiety symptoms persist.

Addressing your underlying factors (Level Two recovery) is most important if you want lasting success.

Addressing Level Two recovery can help you:

• Contain anxious behavior.
• Become unafraid of anxiety symptoms and the strong feelings of anxiety.
• End anxiety symptoms.
• Successfully address the underlying factors that so often cause issues with anxiety.
• End what can feel like out-of-control worry.

All our recommended anxiety therapists have had anxiety disorder and overcame it. Their personal experience with anxiety disorder and their Master's Degree and above professional training give them insight other therapists don't have.

If you want to achieve lasting success over anxiety disorder, any one of our recommended therapists would be a good choice.

Working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist is the most effective way to treat anxiety disorder, especially if you have persistent symptoms and difficulty containing anxious behavior, such as worry [9][10][11].

In many cases, working with an experienced therapist is the only way to overcome stubborn anxiety.

Research has shown that therapy is the most effective treatment for anxiety disorder, and distance therapy (via phone or the Internet) is equally, if not more effective, than face-to-face in-person therapy [12][13][14].