zacjupiter
10-08-2006, 05:57 PM
Hi,
I am a 45 year old male with possible IC. I have feeling that only ladies contribute to this forum, but there must be some guys with the same problem. I hope you could help me.
About three years ago for the first time in my life I got some bladder related symptoms. Mostly urgency, frequency and on the worst days bit of incontinence. After many investigations it remained a mystery (no infections, normal prostate and so on). In the end I got some antibiotics and that cleared the problem.
About 4 months ago I got the exactly the same symptoms and started investigations again. This time antibiotics helped but not completely and I had to stop eating acidic food to stop the symptoms. In one of my urine samples they found atypical epithelial cells and possible cancer had to be investigated. So I went for a cystoscopy with biopsy. The doctors report:
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Endoscopic findings of the bladder confirmed quite significant glomerulations of the bladder vasculature with bleeding on second filling. There was also grade 1 bladder trabeculation, but no bladder tumours were identified. The urethra was normal.
A bladder biopsy was performed and this has shown very mild inflammatory changes but no evidence of malignancy.
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I was in a lot of pain after the procedure and now about 6 weeks I still have some symptoms, mostly feeling of irritation and some urgency. There are some days and hours when I don’t feel anything. I feel that I don’t have typical IC symptoms. For example warmth (like a cat sitting in my lap) would make symptoms worse and I haven’t experienced much pain except after the cystoscopy.
My urologist told me that the finding points toward IC but didn’t write that in his report. I found that GPs know very little about IC and were dismissive that the urologist’s report indicate IC.
My question is: Do I definitely have (in your opinion) IC or can it be something else like atypical urinary infection?
I am a 45 year old male with possible IC. I have feeling that only ladies contribute to this forum, but there must be some guys with the same problem. I hope you could help me.
About three years ago for the first time in my life I got some bladder related symptoms. Mostly urgency, frequency and on the worst days bit of incontinence. After many investigations it remained a mystery (no infections, normal prostate and so on). In the end I got some antibiotics and that cleared the problem.
About 4 months ago I got the exactly the same symptoms and started investigations again. This time antibiotics helped but not completely and I had to stop eating acidic food to stop the symptoms. In one of my urine samples they found atypical epithelial cells and possible cancer had to be investigated. So I went for a cystoscopy with biopsy. The doctors report:
*********************
Endoscopic findings of the bladder confirmed quite significant glomerulations of the bladder vasculature with bleeding on second filling. There was also grade 1 bladder trabeculation, but no bladder tumours were identified. The urethra was normal.
A bladder biopsy was performed and this has shown very mild inflammatory changes but no evidence of malignancy.
*********************
I was in a lot of pain after the procedure and now about 6 weeks I still have some symptoms, mostly feeling of irritation and some urgency. There are some days and hours when I don’t feel anything. I feel that I don’t have typical IC symptoms. For example warmth (like a cat sitting in my lap) would make symptoms worse and I haven’t experienced much pain except after the cystoscopy.
My urologist told me that the finding points toward IC but didn’t write that in his report. I found that GPs know very little about IC and were dismissive that the urologist’s report indicate IC.
My question is: Do I definitely have (in your opinion) IC or can it be something else like atypical urinary infection?