Consumer Alerts & FDA Recalls covering medications and other alerts affect interstitial cystitis, bladder and pelvic pain patients
By Jill Osborne MA Women with pelvic pain have long sought refuge in the offices of their Ob-Gyn when struggling with pelvic pain. Of all of the medical specialties, it is the Ob-Gyn who has the most training and experience in dealing with pelvic pain and pelvic floor disorders. Men, however, have not had such [...]
Endometriosis Risk Linked to Two Pesticides Interstitial cystitis and endometriosis are known as the "evil twins" in medical literature because they so often co-exist in patients. Thus, any story which covers endometriosis is certainly of relevance to the IC community. This press releases shares yet more deeply disturbing information about the impact of toxins in [...]
Have you ever struggled to reduce the dosage or just get off of an antidepressant? Did you struggle with profound side effects? IC patients trying to wean themselves off of Cymbalta have reported severe, devastating side effects. The FDA recently released an advisory about this syndrome. If you've taken it longer than four weeks and [...]
Last month, the American College of OB-Gyne's and the American Society for Reproduct Medicine issued a joint statement to URGE better control over the release of toxic chemicals into the environment because of their proven role in a wide variety of devastating medical conditions. Women, infants, children and men suffer needlessly from medical conditions like [...]
One of the consistent themes you'll see in discussions of the IC diet is the importance of avoiding foods that are heavily processed, preserved or enhanced with chemicals. Why? Not only are some of these flavorings and preservatives potentially harmful and carcinogenic, but processed foods are heavily linked with chronic illnesses such as diabetes. Is [...]
How To Rate Medical Information on the Web If you’re struggling with a medical condition, the treatment decisions you make will be based in part on the information you gather from your doctors, family, friends, books and websites. Your job is to take all that information, sort the good from the bad, the credible from [...]
IC Patient Almost Loses Benefits I just got off the phone with “Rita,” an IC patient who has gotten herself into a terrible situation. In 2008, she had to stop working due to her IC and other serious medical conditions. As a resident of California, a State Disability Insurance (SDI) fee was deducted from paychecks yet [...]
Many of you may have heard about the current Green Bean Coffee Extract craze sweeping the internet. Dr. Oz dedicated an episode of his show to discuss popular weight loss trends including a promising study which showed that Green Bean Coffee Extract may help. He launched the Green Coffee Bean Project to conduct some research [...]
One IC patient up in Minnesota received dreaded news this past weekend.. that she had been injected with the contaminated steroid that has now caused meningitis in more than 90 patients here in the USA as of this afternoon. She received it in August for a pudendal nerve injection offered by a very credible physician [...]
Thanks to Kadi who just let us know about shortage of sterile sodium bicarbonate solution that is used to make many bladder instillations including heparin, elmiron and rescue instillations. Availability is minimal at this time with many pharmacies out of stock. The three manufacturers report have similar outages. Some batches may be arriving later this [...]
