02-10-03, 09:17 PM | |
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To Tjaded:
Your problems sound a lot like mine. I've been having off an on pelvic pain since last summer. Most of the time, the doctors don't find anything in my urine and don't want to help you. So when you decide to go see a urologist, you need to ask ahead of time if he or she treat interstitial cystitis. Some of them don't and you will be wasting your time going to doctors that don't treat it. They will just load you up on gobs of medication and you will get nowhere fast.
Here is a description of IC: IC. is a fairly common bladder condition that affects hundreds of thousands of women, and a few thousand men as well. Why the predominance of women suffering from this disorder is not known. This is one of the more frequently misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed problems we see in urology. These patients often go for years before the proper diagnosis is made, thus resulting in a substantial degree of needless suffering. The hallmark symptoms are very similar to bladder infections….pain, frequent urination, urgent urination, urinating at night, but usually accompanied by pain in the pelvis, pain with sexual relations, and lack of response to antibiotics or the typical medications used for urinary frequency and urgency such as Detrol and Ditropan Here is an excellent support group on-line: http://www.ic-network.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi And a couple of good websites about IC: http://www.supportpath.com/sl_i/inte...l_cystitis.htm http://www.ichelp.org/ Hope this helps you! Blessings to you! Libby |
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