prosed ds and flare ups

[mandycgirl91]

Hi

I just started to take prosed and now my bladder hurts more and it feels like a flare up. Could it be the prosed? Has anyone ever heard of that happening? A coincidence?

thanks

[purpleviolet]

My experience has been this. Last summer I had an infection. I took antibiotics after starting Prosed and continued prosed and valium at night for 2 weeks on a trip. That 2 weeks was really stable. Now I'm in this flare and the prosed is not working that well. I wonder if it is masking a brewing infection. It is hard for a culture to be done because the ingredients in prosed stop some bacteria from growing but maybe don't kill it. (Last time the culture took a long time because of it) This puts me in a quandry. Keep taking it in hopes that I'll feel better or stop for a few days and see if I get worse (oh more misery) (it takes several days for the blue to clear and that is one of the anti-infective ingredients) I'm wondering if last summer the real reason I responded was because I took antibiotics for a real infection and then the prosed kept it clear. I'm just as confused as you probably are and I don't know what to do. The other issue is that prosed is a multi-ingredient drug. What are people really responding to - the aspirin, the anti-spasm or the anti-fective ingredients? And guess what, I just read that the 2 anti-infectives can have the side-effect of irritating the bladder! By the way, Cystex which is OTC has the aspirin and methanamine in it. I've tried it unsucessfully. Hope we can figure this out. PV

[purpleviolet]

I kept up the prosed and I feel a little better. But flares end by themselves usually after a certain amount of time, so I don't know the real reason. I plan on stopping the prosed to see what is going on. Then I'm going to try the dextroamphetamine again (I have a thread on that) but so far hasn't worked. I have to be stable to see if it has a good or bad effect on IC. I'm also going to go on a very hypo-allergenic diet using a powder I'm buying on the internet, to go on a "food holiday". I want to see if I'm reacting to foods and not even knowing it.