General
Frequently Asked Questions

1. What websites does this community offer?

1. This one, the new main site for English speaking patients.

2. The previous main site at pudendal.de, with group discussion. This was the most current of all the PN websites. It's forum was a greatly appreciated innovation, compared to the previous one on Yahoo. However due to problems we have had to create this new site.

3. The pn.jcon.org site, which pioneered the use of extensive thoughtful writing, high quality images, documents, and FAQs for PN patient self-education. It is being merged with the new site.

4. Dr. Ken Renney's site. This team, in Houston, Texas, is probably the best place in the US to go for diagnosis and treatment of PNE. Ken is unusually well qualified. He is a recovered PNE sufferer himself and is a great guy. As of October 1, 2003 they have completed over 40 surgeries.

5. A very old site at Yahoo, which is no longer used. This was the first forum dedicated to Pudendal Neuropathy. It helped many people and essentially crystallized the English speaking PN community.

2. What is the image in the site banner?

Ahhhhh, now we get close to solving a mystery that has been perplexing many. Perhaps, taking a note from Sherlock Holmes, we can use our powers of deductive logic. There's a clue in the paragraph below....

Most people do not have high speed internect connections. Therefore the pages on this site are desiged to load quickly. You will not find ads, fancy graphics, large images (except when needed), animations, use of Flash, pop ups, or all those things that cause pages to load slowly. We want your reading experience to be a pleasure. If everyone had a high speed connection, something like this would be our high speed home page.

The photographic closeup on the high speed home page is of an unknown species of French Alpine flower whose tiny seeds were ready to take flight in the next breeze at an altitude of about 8,000 feet. It was early morning in the Fall of 2002. The fog had just lifted. A few hours of hiking away was the largest glacier in France....