Burning Bridges: Understanding Pelvic Floor Tension and Bladder Pain in Fight or Flight Responses

When my nervous system goes into fight or flight, I tend to hold my tension in my pelvic floor, so I’m tensing my pelvic floor muscles, and that contributes to public for dysfunction and in turn can cause bladder pain. For me, I don’t really experience frequency and urgency. My main symptom is that burning type pain that happens before, during and immediately following urination.