I kept telling people, I need to have sex but nobody listened to me.” After doctors discovered and treated the spinal problems for women in the study, the results were effective in 80 percent of participants. The researchers hope that doctors will now familiarize themselves with PGAD and its symptoms and stay on the lookout for spinal cord issues. “Physicians need to be aware of PGAD and inquire about it when patients experience other pelvic pain or urological symptoms that often accompany PGAD,” said another study author, Anne Louise Oaklander. “It’s treatable, but the treatment depends on the cause. By identifying some common causes — and localizing them to specific regions of the sacral nervous system — our study provides direction on how to help patients and to guide future