title: Dramatic relief of chronic pelvic pain with treatment with sympathomimetic amines--case report.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a novel treatment of chronic pelvic pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  Dextroamphetamine sulfate was prescribed to a woman with unexplained chronic pelvic pain. Pelvic ultrasound, colonoscopy, and lower gastrointestinal radiographic studies were negative. Laparoscopy was offered as the next diagnostic test but the woman requested an attempt at medical therapy first. Based on previous experience of dramatic relief of chronic pelvic pain of bladder origin with sympathomimetic amine therapy she was started on dextroamphetamine sulfate.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The relief of pain approximated 100% almost immediately and the pain relief has persisted for six months. Inadvertent failure to take the prescribed medication allowed the pain to return immediately only to disappear again once the medication was taken.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Disorders of the sympathomimetic nervous system may be a cause of chronic pelvic pain and are relieved by treatment with sympathomimetic amines.
authors: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Camden, NJ, USA.
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authors: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003913:Dextroamphetamine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017699:Pelvic Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013566:Sympathomimetics / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D013566:Sympathomimetics; D003913:Dextroamphetamine