Mild IC Symptoms

[bluegoo06]

Just wondering what other peoples symptoms are who have mild IC. I seem to have slight frequency at certain times, kidney pain, sometimes bladder spasm and sharp pain in the pelvic area, when I use the bathroom its never really a pain but an uncomfortable tingle.

Are the ones who are diagnosed with mild IC have a lot of pain just very seldomly or just have mild pain symptoms? How do you control your mild symptoms, (diet, pills, stress reduction)?

[Goodnightmoon]

I also have only mild IC and I have started Elmiron because it works best if you take it in an early stage. I will continue to take it because I experience no side effects and it has definitely helped me with the frequency.

The one thing you might want to get checked though is the kidney pain because that is not typical for IC. I had a flank pain and they found out it was actually a muscle pain (not the kidneys) which was triggered by the Pelvic Floor.

[NJAmanda]

I have not yet been officially diagnosed with IC, but my urologist suspects it and has tried me on a month of Prosed to see if it eases any of my problems. I think he'll next perform a cystoscopy when I see him in June. At first, I was really unsure if I had IC, as my original complaint was frequent urination. However, for the past few days I've also had pain in my pelvic area that comes and goes and varies from uncomfortable to outright hurting. Looking back on it, I think that I've actually had this pain over the years but it's come and gone in spurts, which I'm now thinking were flares brought on by exercise. It seems that when I have the pain in my pelvic area, the frequency and urgency dies down.
The Prosed I was put on has done absolutely nothing for me but turn my urine blue. Part of me hopes that IC is not my diagnosis as I can't see me living the rest of my life feeling this way, and part of me just wants an official diagnosis to know that I'm not crazy.

[bluegoo06]

its definately normal to feel a sense of doom when you think oyu have IC / get diagnosed with IC. Having mild IC , i have seem an improvement with using the IC diet and my watching what i eat. Certain activitys create some irritation but for the most part I can manage it very well. Pyriudum and things like help when I have a flare. The one thing I have noticed though even with mild IC is that when I start a new med, it seems like I flare more easily compared to before IC. Read up on IC and the different therapys, it definately helped me when i felt i knew something about what i might be dealing with.