Symptoms after BM?

[PikkuMyy]

Ok. This is a little delicate (but what on the ICN isn't? :p

I notice that often after I have a BM, even a regular one (not constipation) that I get symptoms. This morning I feel like I didn't pee everything in my bladder, although I'm sure I did. I also feel tingling in my urethra.

Is this a pelvic floor muscle thing? Perhaps after I'm done my muscles are still tense? Or is it that the muscle contractions squeezed my bladder and urethra and now they ache?

Emily

[Audrey Rose]

Hi Emily,
I have experienced those same symptoms. I also feel like it is the pelvic floor disfunction stuff. But I don't know for sure. :confused: Maybe somebody else can help us know for sure. It is worse when I am in a flare. It sometimes helps me to kneel down and sit on the backs of my feet. Then spread my legs so my knees are sorta to the sides. Then concentrate on relaxing the muscles for a while and then do a bunch of keagals in that position. I do this after a BM and it usually helps. I pretty much always feel like I need to pee after I've just gone. That is part of "normal" for me. Ice helps me if I really have a lot of burning. Hope that helps. The position thing I got from the Yoga for IC patients that I bought from the ICN shop. They have a few other bladder specific poses that I like to do when I am hurting. Just a suggestion.

Good luck!! :) And BIG hugs!!

P.S. Modesty goes out the window the moment you get IC, doesn't it? :jester: When I go in for my DMSO instills, my nurse and I just chit chat away like we are sitting there drinking tea. It amuses me...well, until it starts to hurt and then I just want to go home.... :(

[Sarojini]

Oh, I get this too, isn't it annoying? Even worse, sometimes I get it the other way around... like, if I am flaring and just peed many times in a row, all of a sudden I'll feel like it's time for a BM. :mad:

I generally think that it's a pelvic floor muscle issue... in addition I believe that if inflammation or irritation happens in one place in the pelvis, sometimes you can end up feeling it EVERYWHERE in your pelvis, because the inflammatory mediators you cells secrete travel throughout the entire area. Plus, all of the nerves are very close down there, so stimulating one nerve can sometimes stimulate them all and the signal gets confused.... similar to what happens during referred pain.

I don't know... but it sure is an annoying feeling!!

I hope yours goes away... :)

Jen

[Sarojini]

Audrey, you are so right about modesty going right out the window when IC enters your life! I chat with my nurse too during DMSOs. It is really weird if you think about it. :)

Also, my husband is a high school teacher, and has had my uro's kids in his class (this is how my hubby got me an appointment with this new guy, who, by the way, has been fabulous for me)... anyway, by the time I got in to see the uro, I was so used to being poked and prodded down there that I asked about his kids during my pelvic exam... and he told me the whole story as if he didn't have his fingers up in there... now that I think about it, it was a VERY weird moment ;)

Jen

[Audrey Rose]

:lmao:.....................................
Jen, You soooo Understand... :p
It is weird but you really do just get used to it.
Thanks for sharing your reality,
It just CRACKED me up!!!!

Hugs,