Thanks everyone for your feedback.
NCL: I am seeing a PT who specializes with the pelvic floor, and she identified several trigger points. It's weird cuz it is slow, but going slow seems to be the trick because after just one session I got a significant amount of relief (compared to before the session.)
Gancho Girl: That sounds pretty freaky. I have the Franklin Smooth Balls...is that the sort of thing that I could use?
Alta-Tude: I don't know why I didn't check Katy Bowman's website. I guess I was annoyed that all the resources I found were always for incontinence. Even that Pelvic Power book doesn't really address urinary retention, but he does discuss flexibility extensively, so it has been helpful. I didn't have a sonogram, but they did something called urodynamic testing which was very annoying but wasn't entirely conclusive, but my doctor thinks the PT route is the way to go...and I agree. It is a little strange, because I rarely actually have pain, but regularly have retention symptoms.
Cristinalatina: Wow, your experience sounds scary. When I went to the ER, they did catherize me, but strangely I didn't find it painful. I wasn't pregnant, but they took at almost 2 L that day. I guess when you really need it, it's not that bad! The truth is though, I have had some retention issues ever since I started doing Callanetics in the new way (with engaging the pelvic floor and neutral spine instead of that big pelvic curl they do in Callanetics 10/10.) I talked to Judy Mooser about the problem and evidently she never had a student who had this problem. I further realized that I did not have symptoms if I did my 2x/day 10 minutes general stretching religiously (and I regularly fell off the wagon on this one.) So, I thought it was just something I didn't need to deal with. This has been the toughest to admit because I got so much relief in other ways with Callanetics. But for now it is off of the rotation. I think though that there may have been an underlying problem with my pelvic floor which was getting ignored with all my other stuff, and PT now is a chance to address it.
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