icnmgrjill
10-11-2007, 12:18 PM
(We say THANK YOU to the Daily Herald for covering IC and for patient Barbara Zarnikow for telling her story so well!! Bravo!! - Jill )
40 bathroom trips a day?
For people with interstitial cystitis, it's the only way they can get relief from unrelenting pain
By Susan Stevens | Daily Herald Staff
Halfway into her 20-minute commute to Deerfield, Barbara Zarnikow of Buffalo Grove would stop at a hotel to use the restroom. On road trips, her husband knew to pull off at every rest stop. Seeing a concert meant standing in the back, where she could slip into the restroom several times without disturbing everyone.
Zarnikow wasn't incontinent. She was in constant, visceral pain, pain she could relieve only by emptying her bladder.
"It's like having broken glass inside you," she said.
Read the full article here!
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=51663&src=120
40 bathroom trips a day?
For people with interstitial cystitis, it's the only way they can get relief from unrelenting pain
By Susan Stevens | Daily Herald Staff
Halfway into her 20-minute commute to Deerfield, Barbara Zarnikow of Buffalo Grove would stop at a hotel to use the restroom. On road trips, her husband knew to pull off at every rest stop. Seeing a concert meant standing in the back, where she could slip into the restroom several times without disturbing everyone.
Zarnikow wasn't incontinent. She was in constant, visceral pain, pain she could relieve only by emptying her bladder.
"It's like having broken glass inside you," she said.
Read the full article here!
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=51663&src=120