Welcome to the Cure for Chronic Pain podcast with me, Nicole Sacks.

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What is up?

It's Nicole.

I hope that today is a good day, especially now, that you've reached my podcast,

The Cure for Chronic Pain. Welcome to it. Happy to hang out with you and to share yet another

really moving and important human story. So today I'm going to be speaking to Adam. And the reason that this is important, other than the

fact that every human story that we share here has such an impact, as I hear from thousands

of you guys all over the world and the way the human stories further your healing is Adam has overcome a condition that I think we don't

talk about nearly enough, which is male pelvic pain. You know, people hear the pelvis and for

whatever reason they just think of women. And obviously, you know,

when we're logically looking at that, that isn't true. But I just don't think men really talk

very often about the pelvic pain that they experience and the shame that can come along with that.

And also for, at least for Adam, the attachment that that has to exercise and lifting in the gym and all the things that can, for all of us, men, women alike, make us feel like we are in control of our bodies.

You know, if you can exercise, if you can move, if you can lift, if you can build your strength, you feel like you're in control, you know, to some extent, which is totally fair. I get it,

and I agree. And so when Adam found himself in this level of pain and then also his attachment

to exercise in the gym felt threatened, that was a really low point for him.

And that's just one of Adam's symptoms, but I definitely think it's the most important to highlight

here at the top that we want to keep the conversation going.

We want to keep the conversation relevant to any affliction that is something that people might be suffering with in silence.

And so super important conversation for that today.

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