Tag Archives: PROSTATITIS

Finally cracking my hellish pelvic pain case, with exercises and pelvic floor relaxation

Posted on February 26, 2025 by SCARFMAN

Just as I was starting to think my old chronic pelvic pain problem was a thing I needed to completely forget about, wham, it came back and hit me where it hurts last December time. Step forward my specialist pelvic … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, EMOTION, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged CHRONIC ILLNESS, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, fight-or-flight, Health, HOPE, pain, pelvic floor exercises, PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLES, pelvic floor relaxation, pelvic trigger point release, physio, physiotherapy, PROSTATITIS, tension in the body | Leave a comment

Thankful Thursday, fascinating Friday, and troublesome Tuesday

Posted on January 25, 2025 by SCARFMAN

This is going to be a short piece of audio where I give you a life update regarding my chronic pelvic pain situation, some mental health work I will be doing soon, and me being nervous about a medical appointment … Continue reading →

Posted in HEALTH, OCD, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged 2025, anxiety, AUDIO BLOG, BLOGGING, CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, Health, LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERT, mental health, NHS, OCD, PROSTATITIS, SCIATICA, STAFFORDSHIRE, SWOLLEN FINGERS, WILMSLOW | Leave a comment

How do I find a woman to date, being a white British man of 48?

Posted on January 17, 2025 by SCARFMAN

Finally admitting to the world, I hate being a straight, single, middle-aged man, living in Britain. ‘I am going to fall in love this year.’ This has been my same New Year’s resolution for the past 20 years or more, … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, COMEDY, EMOTION, RANT, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged aged 48, ART, being single, books, BRITAIN, BRITISH, COMEDY, comfort zone, dating, fake profiles, heterosexual, HETROSEXUALITY, humour, ILL HEALTH, ILLNESS, MOVIES, new year's resolution, OCD, ONLINE DATING, PROSTATITIS, relationships, single man, SIR TOM JONES, straight, SUPPORT, the dating game, TRAVEL | Leave a comment

Initial utter devastation at my new prostate illness prostatitis, but this time I fight back

Posted on January 17, 2025 by SCARFMAN

A blog about the trauma of getting prostatitis again, but how I am determined not to let it ruin everything this time around. Panic At age 48, my whole world came crashing down around me just before last Christmas time. … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, Uncategorized | Tagged BLADDER, burning pelvis, cancer, CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, DEPRESSION, fight back, Health, infection, MALE HEALTH, MENS HEALTH, NIGHTMARE, panic, PELVIC FLOOR, PROSTATE, PROSTATE CANCER, PROSTATITIS, spasm, taboo illness, urology | Leave a comment

Against All Odds

Posted on October 10, 2020 by SCARFMAN

World Mental Health Day, Saturday, October 10th, 2020. Time to celebrate my life. Time to tell the world what I have completely been through. Time to finally shout out loud, “I AM HAPPY TO BE ALIVE!” “I WISH I WAS … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, grief, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, OCD, Uncategorized | Tagged DEPRESSION, Health, MEN'S HEALTH, mental health, OCD, PROSTATITIS, WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY 2020 | Leave a comment

FIGHTING BACK FROM MY CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN NIGHTMARE!

Posted on September 4, 2019 by SCARFMAN

This is a blog that I feared I would never be able to write one day. It is about celebrating the miraculous improvements I have made regarding my chronic pelvic pain. I had tears in my eyes the other day … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, EMOTION, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged anxiety, BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, CHRONIC BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, EXERCISE, Health, HOPE, INTERNAL PELVIC EXAMINATION, IRRITABLE BLADDER, MENS HEALTH, mental health, NHS, PELVIC FLOOR, PELVIC PAIN, physio, PROSTATITIS, sexual health | Leave a comment

EXERCISE IS THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING!

Posted on April 16, 2018 by SCARFMAN

A blog where I extol the virtues of exercise on my mental health! I was sat there at my laptop a few evenings ago, when I suddenly became aware that I had this wonderful overall feeling of great contentment. Allover … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, OCD, Uncategorized | Tagged anxiety, BENEFITS OF EXERCISE, CBT, CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, CONTENTMENT, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, EUPHORIA, EXERCISE, EXERCISE AND MENTAL HEALTH, EXPOSURE THERAPY, GOING TO THE GYM, GYM, HAPPINESS, Health, MENS HEALTH, MENS MENTAL HEALTH, mental health, NHS, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, PELVIC PAIN, PROSTATITIS, STRENUOUS EXERCISE, WELLBEING | Leave a comment

THE TRIUMPH OF A TESTING DAY: 4 TRAMS, 2 TRAINS, AND A LONG WALK WHILST JUMPING OVER DOG POO!

Posted on October 20, 2017 by SCARFMAN

‘I can’t believe I’m doing this. I can’t believe I agreed to this, what was I thinking? I’m not sure I can do this mum’? This was me yesterday at approximately 11.30am, as I finished getting ready to go to … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, COMEDY, EMOTION, HEALTH, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, OCD, Uncategorized | Tagged CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN, DOG DIRT PHOBIA, DOG POO, EMETOPHOBIA, Health, INTERNAL PELVIC EXAMINATION, MALE HEALTH, male pelvic pain, MANCHESTER, Manchester Piccadilly train station, MENS HEALTH, mental health, MIND, MOTHER, MOTIVATION, MR IRRATIONAL, MR RATIONAL, MUM LOVE, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, PELVIC FLOOR, PELVIC FLOOR PHYSIO, PELVIC PAIN, PELVIC PHYSIO, PELVIS PHYSIO, PHOBIAS, physio, PROSTATITIS, SICK PHOBIA, TRAIN PHOBIA, WILMSLOW | Leave a comment

I THINK THEREFORE I AM….NOT A NUTTER : MENTAL HEALTH MEDICATION AND ME!

Posted on January 28, 2017 by SCARFMAN

A blog about me being able to take medication for my mental health illness, for the FIRST TIME EVER! I can still remember the first time I tried taking a medication called clomipramine for my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, EMOTION, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, OCD, Uncategorized | Tagged 2ND OPINION, ANAL BEHAVIOUR, anxiety, ARIPIPRAZOLE, BAD NHS EXPERIENCES, CBT, COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY, CONTAMINATION, CRUEL OCD, DEPRESSION, DIARY, DOVTORS, DROWSINESS, DROWSY, EMOTION, ENSLAVED, FLUOXETINE, medication, MENS HEALTH, mental health, MENTAL HEALTH COLLEGE, MENTAL HEALTH DIARY, MENTAL HEALTH MEDICATION, MENTAL HEALTH MEDICATION SIDE EFFECTS, NHS CBT, NOT BEING BELIEVED, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, OCD MEDS, pain, PELVIC FLOOR SORENESS, PRISONER IN OWN HOME, PROSTATITIS, PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY, SORE RIBS, stigma, TALKING THERAPY | 2 Comments

THE JOY OF……..A GOOD LONG WEE, WHEN YOU SUFFER FROM LYMPHOEDEMA LIKE ME!

Posted on July 17, 2016 by SCARFMAN

I’ll let you all into an embarrassing secret of mine for a moment, the other morning I raced into the bathroom quicker than Linford Christie in tight Lycra and shouted the following OUT LOUD as I weed(in the voice of … Continue reading →

Posted in ANXIETY, cellulitis, COMEDY, EMOTION, HEALTH, LYMPH GLANDS, LYMPHOEDEMA, mens health, MENTAL HEALTH, NHS, TRUE STORIES, Uncategorized | Tagged amusing health story, anxiety, banter, big wees, BLADDER, CELLULITIS, COMEDY, COMPRESSION, compression socks, COMPRESSION STOCKINGS, coping with lymphoedema, David Coleman, David Colemen, DOCTORS, EMOTION, fluid drainage, GALLBLADDER REMOVED, gallbladder taken out, going to the toilet, GPS, Health, health comedy, IRRITABLE BLADDER, JOY, Linford Christie, living with lymphedema, living with lymphoedema, lymph fluid, lymph gland drainage issue, LYMPH GLANDS, lymphatic fluid, lymphatic glands, lymphedema, LYMPHOEDEMA, MALE HEALTH, MENS HEALTH, mental health, nerves, NHS, pee, physical health, poisoning my body, PROSTATE INFECTION, PROSTATITIS, record breakers, swelling in the legs, SWOLLEN ANKLES, SWOLLEN FEET, SWOLLEN LEGS, symptoms and side effects of lymphoedema, toilet, TRUE STORY, urinating, urination, useless doctors, WEE, WEEING | Leave a comment

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