Risk of bladder seizure from botox

[Sunbeam]

I have been advised to have injections of Botox to ease the frequency and pain of IC. The pain is my biggest problem and my consultant doesn't guarantee Botox will ease this. I am worried about my bladder seizing up after treatment as I do know someone this has happened to and now she has to use a catheter every 10-15 minutes. This would be hell on earth for me as it would make my condition worse. My bladder has the tendency to frieze anyway and I can't empty it if I am under stress. Has anyone got any advice on what to do. My pain levels are very high.

[IcyAngel23]

I had 2 botox treatments done and it didn't help with my pain. Which was my biggest problem. it did help everything else though. I never heard of bladder seizures. You may have retention but an alpha blocker like Flomaz or Cardura work to ease that. Some need to cath a few times a day for a few weeks but botox isn't permant so it would be temporary. Maybe the one who had the bladder seizures wasn't the result of botox just her level of IC. I have bladder spasms sometimes but I had that even before botox. Is that what she is calling seizures? That isn't a side effect of botox it's a side effect of IC. Some like me have a severe case that hasn't responed to any treatments given and some are able to have awesome results on the same treatments. Botox is probably the least risky treatment you could try. I know uro's are doing botox even before Elmiron. Botox has almost no side effects (maybe retention temporarily) and the retention in 99% of cases can be helped by an alpha blocker. Don't let yourself pass up botox because of fear. If your IC is as bad as you say it is you would try anything to fix that. I've tried every treatment on the board and nothing has helped. I still out there looking for more treatments as they come down the line. In some patients their pain is helped my botox. Mine wasn't but nothing else worked either so I"m an extreme case. Try it, you don't have anything to lose other than bladder pain.
Let me know if you need to know about anyother treatment. I'm an open book. Hope this helps. Be positive and do some research on it if you're still worried. You'll find that retention occurs in less than 1% of patients. I had it but ver mildly. I took flomax and had no trouble after that. Good luck