vixxen
04-08-2004, 07:03 AM
And i've been reading the remission stories and success stories, so i figured i'd share mine.
i was put on the Elmeron, atarax, and elavil...i've probably spelled them all wrong, and i hated taking them. so my doctor referred me to a female urologist at a time when my IC was so bad, that my boyfriend could see my shaking from pain when i came out of the bathroom. i went to that female urologist, told her my symptoms. she upped my dosage on all three of my meds and gave me an antibiotic. it was like the parting of the red sea the next day. the day i first took this cocktail, that night i slept through the night. i haven't had symptoms of IC since then, and that was late Nov. 2003.
in September 2003, i had a bladder biopsy, and my doctor said the lining of my stomach looked like it had been through a meat grinder. in fact, he dubbed my bladder as the worse case of IC he'd ever seen, and started documenting my bladder. in March 2004 when i had my follow-up, he said it looked like a whole new bladder.
i'd been fighting, what i thought were bladder infections since 1993. it wasn't until 2001, when i went to a NP she looked at my urine sample and was concerned that i might go into kidney failure, did i learn that not one of my urine samples previously contained any bacteria. she urged me to go to a Urologist.
i hear that antibiotics don't work for everyone, but i thought i'd share my story.
i was put on the Elmeron, atarax, and elavil...i've probably spelled them all wrong, and i hated taking them. so my doctor referred me to a female urologist at a time when my IC was so bad, that my boyfriend could see my shaking from pain when i came out of the bathroom. i went to that female urologist, told her my symptoms. she upped my dosage on all three of my meds and gave me an antibiotic. it was like the parting of the red sea the next day. the day i first took this cocktail, that night i slept through the night. i haven't had symptoms of IC since then, and that was late Nov. 2003.
in September 2003, i had a bladder biopsy, and my doctor said the lining of my stomach looked like it had been through a meat grinder. in fact, he dubbed my bladder as the worse case of IC he'd ever seen, and started documenting my bladder. in March 2004 when i had my follow-up, he said it looked like a whole new bladder.
i'd been fighting, what i thought were bladder infections since 1993. it wasn't until 2001, when i went to a NP she looked at my urine sample and was concerned that i might go into kidney failure, did i learn that not one of my urine samples previously contained any bacteria. she urged me to go to a Urologist.
i hear that antibiotics don't work for everyone, but i thought i'd share my story.