icnmgrjill
11-15-2004, 10:05 AM
Here's a great case where our work paid off! The ICN Special Report on Diet provides essential info on the relationship between diet and IC. But, perhaps more importantly, it makes it easy to understand. As our user said "When I went cold turkey off of sodas, coffee, tomatoes, and chocolate for two weeks I felt like a normal person again." Diet can and does make a difference! Read on for more! - Jill :)
Dear Jill,
You were kind enough to resend me the Food and Nutrition report to me a couple of months ago. I want you to know that report has helped me more than any medicine or any doctor has in the past three years. Your statement that, "IC sufferers who drink coffee or carbonated soda are pouring acid in an open wound," has really stuck with me.
I stopped drinking one cup of coffee daily, stopped drinking sodas, stopped eating tomatoes and tomatoe sauce, and backed off of chocolate. I love all of those things. Every once in a while I slip, because I feel deprived, but at least I am making positive changes in my life and they don't require extra medication.
When I went cold turkey off of sodas, coffee, tomatoes, and chocolate for two weeks I felt like a normal person again. I still feel like a normal person. I can walk around with out pain and hardly use the heating pad much anymore.
I am trying to spread the word of the dangers of soda and coffee to other women I know who have trouble with reoccuring bladder infections. There were many a day in the past couple of years that I thought I was either dying or would never be healthy again.
I now have hope and I am able to perform my normal activities again thanks to you. I just wanted to say thank you and that your work does make a difference to those of us you send your information to. I wish you a Happy Holiday Season.
If you haven't tried to modify your diet... or if you just didn't believe that it's important, then I hope you learn from her. She had horrible pain and now most of it is resolved. It's certainly worth trying.
You can purchase it at: http://www.icnshop.com
Jill :)
Dear Jill,
You were kind enough to resend me the Food and Nutrition report to me a couple of months ago. I want you to know that report has helped me more than any medicine or any doctor has in the past three years. Your statement that, "IC sufferers who drink coffee or carbonated soda are pouring acid in an open wound," has really stuck with me.
I stopped drinking one cup of coffee daily, stopped drinking sodas, stopped eating tomatoes and tomatoe sauce, and backed off of chocolate. I love all of those things. Every once in a while I slip, because I feel deprived, but at least I am making positive changes in my life and they don't require extra medication.
When I went cold turkey off of sodas, coffee, tomatoes, and chocolate for two weeks I felt like a normal person again. I still feel like a normal person. I can walk around with out pain and hardly use the heating pad much anymore.
I am trying to spread the word of the dangers of soda and coffee to other women I know who have trouble with reoccuring bladder infections. There were many a day in the past couple of years that I thought I was either dying or would never be healthy again.
I now have hope and I am able to perform my normal activities again thanks to you. I just wanted to say thank you and that your work does make a difference to those of us you send your information to. I wish you a Happy Holiday Season.
If you haven't tried to modify your diet... or if you just didn't believe that it's important, then I hope you learn from her. She had horrible pain and now most of it is resolved. It's certainly worth trying.
You can purchase it at: http://www.icnshop.com
Jill :)