Dixiefireball
03-16-2004, 05:38 PM
This is what i think caused my ic.
I was born with three kidneys had two bladder surgery before i was a year old and another one at the age nine. I missed the whole part of shcool that year and had to be homeschooled.
I have had many many many to many uti my whole life exp. since i became an adult. I have one uti every mth a week before my peroid hits so i'm in major pain for those two weeks out of the mth.
I believe my IC came from many UTI that went untreated because we had no inc or money I feel like the uti scared my bladder I know alot of people feel like they have a uti when they really don't but Mine are the true UTI's:( this is one thought on my ic, but another thought i have is when i had a tubeable after the birth of my last son. that is when things started getting really bad. I notice after I got threw breast feeding my son alex when he was 6 mths old I started drinking on the weekends with my husband at home with my mother in law had the children becuase if i didnt drink with him he would end up trying to drive or sneak off to one of his friends house he just wanted someone to drink with him so we got the kids a 3ft pool and on the weekends we would sit around the pool and i would drink either a wine cooler or a lite beer with my husband even tho i couldnt stand the taste of beer.:p the next day after drinking i would notice a pattern starting when i would wake up in the morning i would have this awful feeling that i had a very bad infection. the pain was so unreal I would go to the er and nine out of ten times i would have an true infection very few times did it come up i didn't have one.
after a while going back and forth to the er and to my doctor threw the week she sent me to a wonderful IC uro. who talked to me and figure out what was wrong with me on the first visit. they did that test where they put that stuff in your bladder which i really think they shouldnt do that because i think that doesnt prove anything i believe the only way to prove you have ic is for them to really go up into your bladder to find out. i think that test is very painful for no true reason Yes dont get me wrong it does give the doctor some idea that maybe you have ic but nothing is for sure until they truely look inside your bladder.
its been a long road i have had many treatments from dmso to nerve blocks all type of medicine back to dmso that i do at home now.
I know we all have our thoughts on this and please share some of yours with me. maybe we can put something together and figure out something more then we already knew.
hugs and prayers sent to all of you my ic family
Rhonda.:angel:
I was born with three kidneys had two bladder surgery before i was a year old and another one at the age nine. I missed the whole part of shcool that year and had to be homeschooled.
I have had many many many to many uti my whole life exp. since i became an adult. I have one uti every mth a week before my peroid hits so i'm in major pain for those two weeks out of the mth.
I believe my IC came from many UTI that went untreated because we had no inc or money I feel like the uti scared my bladder I know alot of people feel like they have a uti when they really don't but Mine are the true UTI's:( this is one thought on my ic, but another thought i have is when i had a tubeable after the birth of my last son. that is when things started getting really bad. I notice after I got threw breast feeding my son alex when he was 6 mths old I started drinking on the weekends with my husband at home with my mother in law had the children becuase if i didnt drink with him he would end up trying to drive or sneak off to one of his friends house he just wanted someone to drink with him so we got the kids a 3ft pool and on the weekends we would sit around the pool and i would drink either a wine cooler or a lite beer with my husband even tho i couldnt stand the taste of beer.:p the next day after drinking i would notice a pattern starting when i would wake up in the morning i would have this awful feeling that i had a very bad infection. the pain was so unreal I would go to the er and nine out of ten times i would have an true infection very few times did it come up i didn't have one.
after a while going back and forth to the er and to my doctor threw the week she sent me to a wonderful IC uro. who talked to me and figure out what was wrong with me on the first visit. they did that test where they put that stuff in your bladder which i really think they shouldnt do that because i think that doesnt prove anything i believe the only way to prove you have ic is for them to really go up into your bladder to find out. i think that test is very painful for no true reason Yes dont get me wrong it does give the doctor some idea that maybe you have ic but nothing is for sure until they truely look inside your bladder.
its been a long road i have had many treatments from dmso to nerve blocks all type of medicine back to dmso that i do at home now.
I know we all have our thoughts on this and please share some of yours with me. maybe we can put something together and figure out something more then we already knew.
hugs and prayers sent to all of you my ic family
Rhonda.:angel: