new diagnosis

so after being told by the family doctor that nothing was showing up and therefore he didn't know how to treat it. i made an appointment with the gynecologist in hopes of finding more out. Boy did i ever he listened to me and my symptoms and he told me he thought it was interstitial cystitis {IC} and set me up with potassium test todetermine if i was or not. It was.

IC if you will for short is basically that lining that is supposed to protect my bladder wall is damaged. This allows me to feel discomfort. Basically i've had a ton of uti's/ kidney infections this like 6 or 7 this year really on which antibiotics were of no help. It felt like a big fat infection growing in confidence since july when every test showed no sign of infection. It's long term and i basically have to take a pill 3 times a day {for at least the next 6 months} and go in twice a week for rescue medicine for 3 weeks and then one a week for another 4 weeks., which is given through a catheter. That's always fun plus i really have to watch what i eat, because it can flare up and is considered long term. So there you all have it it has a name thank goodness and is trreatable though i really wouldn't say curable.

i'm specifically putting this on the blog for the women in this family {men can get it too but, more likely it is women in child bearing years who get more than 2 uti's a year.

oh and to top things off i found out that that cranberry juice that is really helpful in getting rid of uti's is the opposite when it comes to having {ic}. To quote the nurse who tested me for it. "Drinking cranberry juice when you have IC is like adding gasoline to a fire" If i had only known. I was making it worse by trying to make it better. OOps! To learn more and to fill out the questionare, they do have a website www.allaboutic.com The good news is that i'm getting it taken care of finally! ;)