Hi honey, absolutely that will be fine to go every 3 weeks! The exercises you will be told to do daily. If you just CAN'T do them the day or two after physio though don't despair!! I sometimes would not do anything the day after because it is kinda painful especially the first few trips..

Also, here they DO TREAT on the first appointment! So be prepared for that. It won't be as full a session as the next, but they should treat you here.

@ Whyme123 - I am speaking of the money issues because Taters and I are in the same boat, that we NEED to get all we can out of each appointment as we cannot afford to go as often as recommended. So there is a difference to women who can afford more appointments (I do not know if you can or not, but we certainly can't). As SSWarning also suggested, to get the most out of it we would do well to avoid any pain meds until after the therapy.

By the way sweetie not sure any of us have told you but the pain can get increasingly more uncomfortable in the hours AFTER the treatment. So if you feel like you could tolerate it but it was pushing your limits, go ahead and take something right away afterwards xx

Oh and Taters - yes that will be fine to go that frequently, but be honest strait up and twll her how often you can go because of the financial situation. Often for me they spend a little extra time showing me (or giving me some diagrams) on what I specifically need to do at home until the next appointment. It really helps, but you have to let them know first because they wouldn't do it if you were going once a week xx

Girls, may I ask a question? What is pelvic floor therapy and how can it help? Im gathering here that it can help with endo pain in general and with pain associated with sex because of endo. Is it a painful treatment and what exactly do they do to you?

Hi love. Ok, pelvic floor physiotherapy is therapy of the pelvic floor muscles (some internal, some external therapy) and any other muscles that are affecting them (such as your bum, thighs, stomach, abdomen, legs etc). There are quite a few different techniques. Some include manual manipulation (stretching and trigger points etc) some uses a bio-feedback machine (that goes into the vagina like a probe and either registers when your muscles are tensed and relaxed, or manually fatigues them to force them to relax, or both) there are vaginal dialators (inserted by yourself, starting very small and working your way up. As you can move one size without tensing and having pain, you move up a size) there is acupuncture to any affected area, some women have pain blocks (injections) but I haven't had this, there are other exercise aids like rubber bands that you use while doing your pelvic floor therapy which really help it to work quicker and better, there is general massage (external - legs, bum, stomach etc any area that needs it). But a lot of it IS internal, which can get quite uncomfortable.

Basically, if you can liken your muscles to a light switch, when we experience chronic pain our muscles respond to that and stay in a "switched on" position permanently. So the therapy helps to break the pain cycle, to allow us to "switch off" the muscles that are not needed. If a woman stays in a constant state of being tensed, then she will experience greater pain as that of itself causes pain. Then she becomes even more sensitive to it, and more pain signals are sent. So she tenses up more..... etc etc.... THis is NOT physcological, but a physiological reaction. I had a wonderful little article about pelvic floor hypotonicity by femalepatient.com but for some reason it won't come up. You can try googling pelvic floor myalgia. The pain that comes with it can get pretty intense (I birthed a posterior baby vaginally and still had my pelvic floor muscles being overly toned!) If you have this, it will just add to the pains you already experience. Therapy will NOT help endo pain, but it WILL help the extra pain resulting from our bodies reaction to being in chronic pain. It helps me so much with internal exams, sex, cramps in general, exercise... absolutely everything! xx