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Professor Mark Whiteley
Mark Whiteley
What are the symptoms of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome?
Professor Mark Whiteley lists some of the symptoms of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome, including irritable bowel, irritable bladder, a dragging or aching on standing or sitting, hip pain, or back pain.
Transcript
The symptoms of pelvic congestion syndrome, PCS, are basically due to the inflammation and the stretching of the walls in the pelvic veins. So the things like irritable bowel, irritable bladder, a dragging or aching on standing or sitting when you're upright in the pelvis. And sometimes it's external as well. So you can also get pain in the hip. You get an aching, gnawing pain in the small of the back as well. And there's some evidence now also that men are starting to get this and getting a prostatic problems, or impotence from pelvic congestion.