PGAD or Persistent Genital Arousal syndrome is the most recent health scare, which was only first documented in 2001, but has been around for quite some time effecting thousands of women globally.
PGAD is the feeling of genital provocation which is also known as pelvic tension that does not go away and is not caused by sexual activity or stimulation. PGAD can turn into a major infuriation or even aching.
PGAD is not completely curable, but there are various treatments that may diminish or remove the pain associated with PGAD.
Cure for women who suffer from PGAD also recognized as PSAS may be considered psychological and biologic.
Psychological treatments focus on psychoanalysis with cognitive reframing of the arousal as a vigorous response. Leisure exercises and diversion strategies have been effectively used.
Biologic strategies differ as to the essential pathophysiology of the PGAD/PSAS. Several patients have achieved some achievement only by gradually tapering and discontinuing medications such as trazodone, recognized to cause a similar syndrome in men. Unluckily in several women the syndrome may continue even though the offending agent has been discontinued.
If a patient has PGAD/PSAS from pelvic blockage syndrome minor to deficiency of the gonadal vein resulting in venous varicosities around the female pelvic organs. If a patient has PGAD/PSAS from a pelvic major venous deformity that sends inexorable arterial inflow to the female genital organs, the most efficacious management would be embolization of the pelvic arterial venous deformity.
