faith4jesus
10-04-2006, 01:51 PM
Hi all . . . I have pretty much suspected that what I have is IC. I've had bladder pain and burning for years, then it went away then it surfaced again last year. I saw a Uroligest and he said it seems most likely a very sensitive bladder & over active bladder. He put me on Detrol LA and also Uspet for bladder pain.
I've been weeding food in and out of my diet for awhile now. Also same with drinks. It's been a pain, but able to live with it. I've been stuck on bottled water (I seem to do ok with Deer Park water) & well just living with it. I'll flare ups and pain at times and then relize what new thing set it off. At times I'll wander over to this IC website and read stuff, but thinking in the back of my head "At least I don't have IC, just something like it.".
Sigh well today I had my yearly OB/GYN visit. What fun hu? I'm having a bladder flare up now because I finally relized this morning it was the new Cherrios Fruit cereal I started eatting. it has real fruit juice in it and 25% Vit C instead of the reg 10% I can usually eat. Well anyway I was telling my GYN all the problems and what have found that works and what doesn't work. I told her what the Uroligist said and stuff like that. She nodded and said that it sound that I have Interstitial Cystitis. I told her I have wondered that myself and she said she is pretty sure that is what I have. She asked more questions and suggested that tell what she said to my uroligist when I go back in Feb.
So I finally pretty much seem confurmed that this is what I have. I guess I haven't had the actual tests or I don't even know if there are test to really say that for sure it is what I have, but honestly I am just glad she didn't say I had a bladder infection. I can't tell you how many drs tell me that is what I have when I know it is a flare up.
I just really don't know how to feel. I am down just about every thing right now. I go back to see my uroligist in Feb and hope he can put me on something better for the pain I feel.
My husband is sick all the meds I take once a month. It doesn't seem like much to me, but he does know I am tired of being in pain.
It is weird my bladder will feel great for almost a month and now due to just eatting some dumb cereal I am in pain for days.
:help:
Ashley
I've been weeding food in and out of my diet for awhile now. Also same with drinks. It's been a pain, but able to live with it. I've been stuck on bottled water (I seem to do ok with Deer Park water) & well just living with it. I'll flare ups and pain at times and then relize what new thing set it off. At times I'll wander over to this IC website and read stuff, but thinking in the back of my head "At least I don't have IC, just something like it.".
Sigh well today I had my yearly OB/GYN visit. What fun hu? I'm having a bladder flare up now because I finally relized this morning it was the new Cherrios Fruit cereal I started eatting. it has real fruit juice in it and 25% Vit C instead of the reg 10% I can usually eat. Well anyway I was telling my GYN all the problems and what have found that works and what doesn't work. I told her what the Uroligist said and stuff like that. She nodded and said that it sound that I have Interstitial Cystitis. I told her I have wondered that myself and she said she is pretty sure that is what I have. She asked more questions and suggested that tell what she said to my uroligist when I go back in Feb.
So I finally pretty much seem confurmed that this is what I have. I guess I haven't had the actual tests or I don't even know if there are test to really say that for sure it is what I have, but honestly I am just glad she didn't say I had a bladder infection. I can't tell you how many drs tell me that is what I have when I know it is a flare up.
I just really don't know how to feel. I am down just about every thing right now. I go back to see my uroligist in Feb and hope he can put me on something better for the pain I feel.
My husband is sick all the meds I take once a month. It doesn't seem like much to me, but he does know I am tired of being in pain.
It is weird my bladder will feel great for almost a month and now due to just eatting some dumb cereal I am in pain for days.
:help:
Ashley