When Running Breaks Your Vagina | Osteitis Pubis

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you think you have a stubborn UTI, but you’ve actually fractured your pubic bone from running too many damn marathons? This week, the fellas sit down with Genevieve, a distance runner who woke up one morning feeling like she’d been kicked in the box. Literally. After two months of a particularly painful "detective" mission It turns out she has Osteitis Pubis. A stress fracture in the cartilage where your hip bones meet. Genevieve gets raw and hilarious about the work required to find the truth, the vulnerability of pelvic floor physiotherapy (shoutout to the pelvic wand!), and the identity crisis that happens when your body forces you to stop "Forrest Gumping" your way through life’s problems.

Genevieve's Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/NarritivityScene

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0:30.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:45.4	It took away a sense of safety I had in my body, a sense of trust I had in my body.
0:48.2	I think I have more medical anxiety now.
0:53.1	Like if I like twist something in my back, like doing something weird, I don't think, oh,
1:11.0	like whatever, I'll be fine in a couple days. Part of me thinks, this is it. This is my life now. You know, if I get a cold, I'm like, oh, God, like, what if this just never goes away? Because what I thought would be something that would clear up in a couple days turned into, like, a year-long thing that I'm probably like 95% better now, but still dealing with and still in physio4. That's like the biggest thing it took away.
1:12.4	It took away the, like, safety I think. I'm probably like 95% better now, but still dealing with and still in physio4.
1:12.4	That's like the biggest thing it took away.
1:16.8	It took away the like safety I had in my body.
1:21.5	Hello, beautiful people.
1:24.3	Welcome back another week, another episode of Sick Boy. And, okay, listen, I feel like we've all had the experience where, you know,
1:30.9	you wake up and something feels a little, a little off in the downstairs department.
1:37.5	And you think to yourself, okay, I guess, you know, it's my turn to have a UTI.
1:42.6	So you do what everybody else does.
1:44.4	You go, you take the antibiotics, you wait for the sting to stop, and then you move on with your life.
1:50.1	Well, what happens when that sting is actually not a UTI, but rather your pubic bone literally splintering?
1:59.7	This week, we are hanging out with our new friend Genevieve.
2:02.9	She's a distance runner who thought she was fighting a stubborn bladder infection, only to
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