Welcome to Hope into Action

My name is Antonio Pizzarella. For years I have been living with a rare, invisible, and merciless neurological syndrome, diagnosed as genital CRPS.

The disease, unfortunately, originated in my genitals and then spread: an inexplicable pain that constantly burns, tightens, and crushes my nerves, that turns my clothes into blades and every stimulus into extreme suffering. A disease that has confined my life within the walls of a room, where I can only walk for hours or lie on my side to survive the waves of pain .

Another less important factor, yet characteristic of this and other diseases, is invisibility. It's arriving everywhere too late, despite having reported symptoms for years. It's being looked at without being understood. It's trying everything that exists without finding anything that even provides a sigh of relief. It's resisting, only to end up going to the emergency room and not being admitted because the cultural and scientific resources to get help don't yet exist.

After these necessary premises, my task will not be to list everything that I cannot do, since it is the story of a person who, fortunately, still held on without giving up and who, perhaps, still has some ammunition left.

Hope into Action isn't just a guarantee of transparency for fundraising : it's my life laid bare, not out of pity (you won't find any videos or powerful images), but as a testimony. Out of dignity. And so that those who suffer know they're not alone. This site was created to change and to try to spark a reaction regarding understanding these conditions. To transform personal resistance into a collective act. To restore to this story the full voice it never had. To transform hope into action.

CRPS , chronic pelvic pain ( CPP ) and pudendal neuralgia ( PN or PNE in existence, yet remain incredibly unknown, underestimated, and often treated superficially.

Too many people are abandoned in the labyrinth of chronic pain, without timely diagnosis, without adequate treatment, without a voice.

This site aims to shed light on invisible disability and the gap between official medicine and the real needs of the most complex patients.

“Hope into Action” also aims to become a space for dissemination: for example, the next steps for which I am asking for financial support, explained in detail on the GoFundMe , will be regenerative infusions, amniotic stem cells, surgery on the peripheral nervous system, advanced neuromodulation, and integrated psycho-emotional support.

I will publish medical articles, testimonials, scientific contributions, reflections, and materials to shed light on CRPS, chronic pelvic pain (CPP), pudendal neuralgia (PN and PNE), and all those forms of chronic pain that destroy, sometimes even without leaving visible signs. Above all, you will find the therapies I have undergone—and there are many—explained in detail.

Of course, everything will be documented, explained, and made public: not only for those who have chosen to donate, but for anyone who needs to know about these alternative avenues, which currently exist but are accessible only to a select few.

I want this place to serve those seeking concrete hope, those who need a map where today there's only fog. I want to build a network, a small community that recognizes and supports one another, that finds courage and opportunity where there once seemed only silence.

And finally, I want to do everything I can to ensure that what happened to me never happens to anyone else again.

I want this story to leave a mark. I want my body to become a battleground for those who come after me. Because it's unacceptable that pain be ignored just because it's difficult to understand.

It's unacceptable that there are diseases that condemn you to the dark because you lack funding, willpower, or a listening ear. It's unacceptable that science arrives late for those who absolutely can't wait any longer. Believe me, it just can't.

Even if I don't make it, I want it to at least serve a purpose.

To something.

To someone.