Re: Interstitial Cystitis
I'm not entirely sure what it is, but my urologist gave me a prescription for usept ( i think that's the name of it ) when I was having a lot of UTI's with lingering symptoms. I would get over the infection but still have all the symptoms. It seems to have worked really well.
Re: Interstitial Cystitis
Well I read that with IC you can only manage the symptoms since they haven't found a cure yet.
I guess I'm looking more towards holistic/alternative methods for relief since I don't have health insurance or a job right now.
Re: Interstitial Cystitis
Hey i come on here all the time but i am more of a lurker lol.. but i had to reply to you because i have IC and was seriously going to jump off a bridge it was so bad ... the day i was diagosed my dad came across a random article on it (weird cuz its not common).. and it was about a seminar of a guy who specializes in it.. anyways at this seminar he spoke of a drug its called "elmiron" i was sceptical because i had tried everything and nothin helped me i kinda gave up hope. anyways i went to my uroligist and told him to prescribe it to me.. because its not common he had not offered it to me or really didnt even know to much about it.. anyways the doc said it could take a long time to work .. i went for it.. and after about 6 months i improved after about a year even more ...almost normal.. now im like a regular person.. its a miracle drug i have to be on it for the rest of my life cuz ppl who go off it it stops working.. anyways minus every once in a while i'll have a couple bad days cuz somethin triggered it but besides that im almost a normal person again.. so you should try it! sorry i went off for an hour hope its coherent... good luck with everything hun!!
Re: Interstitial Cystitis
Having IC drove me nuts. I stopped eating wheat. And that was one of the things that went away. One day my friend fed me food that (I didnt know) had wheat in it, I called her the next day asking, and she was like um, yeah. I was having IC symptoms like mad that day and was trying to track down why.