Acceptance

[lexur]

How do I get to acceptance?

[ICNDonna]

First of all, you learn as much as you can about your disease of IC. And, if necessary, talk with a counselor to help you to cope with what's happening to you.

And remember that there is life with IC --- it may take a while to find which treatment options work best and which foods and drinks to avoid, but most of us do --- and most of us feel good most of the time.

Donna

[VickiB]

Hi lexur. Welcome to ICN!

I agree, learning as much as you can about IC is the best first step to living with it. I just wanted to add that I think all the phases we go through in reaching acceptance, saddness, denial, anger, depression, etc, are quite normal and healthy to work through. Also, I know acceptance means different things to different people. I never accepted that this is how it would be for me from now on, but rather accepted that this was my reality right now. -And did my darnest to meet the challenges to making that reality better! I say that because I want you to know that for most of us, life does improve compared to the point we were at when diagnosed!

Again, welcome!

Vicki