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Hi I am new here. I have been having bladder problems for a few years now. My symptoms are: needing to go all the time, when done going I still feel like I have to go, I also only dribble out a little bit when I do go, I get some dripping after I go, so I wear panty liners, a painful feeling of needing to pee in my bladder area, and sometimes I get these spasms that hurt really badly. I do not have burning when I do go, I just don't really get relief.
What I have been doing is watching what I eat. Seems to work sometimes but others times I cheat and nothing happens. Then it will get really bad and i have no idea why. Does that make sense? I have yet to find much of a rhyme or reason to the attacks, as I call them. Coffee will sometimes do it, sometimes not, same with wine.
I cannot get tested as I am pregnant and by OB said a urologist will not conduct any testing until I have the baby.
Does this sound like IC or just a sensitive bladder? All of my cultures come back normal but with an elevated white blood cell count.
Weird symptoms that I have that could be related and are not explained; I get from time to time horrible joint pain. Comes and goes and is usually in my pelvis, knees and feet. I was tested for Lupus and RA and they came back within normal ranges. Mood swings, horrible horrible allergies, and bad anxiety that I am taking Zoloft for. I also have weird sleep patterns that are ok sometimes and really wacky others.
Anyway, I hope some of you can help me. I feel miserable most of the time and my relationship with my husband is suffering.
eta- I also have asthma and IBS-constipation.
What I have been doing is watching what I eat. Seems to work sometimes but others times I cheat and nothing happens. Then it will get really bad and i have no idea why. Does that make sense? I have yet to find much of a rhyme or reason to the attacks, as I call them. Coffee will sometimes do it, sometimes not, same with wine.
I cannot get tested as I am pregnant and by OB said a urologist will not conduct any testing until I have the baby.
Does this sound like IC or just a sensitive bladder? All of my cultures come back normal but with an elevated white blood cell count.
Weird symptoms that I have that could be related and are not explained; I get from time to time horrible joint pain. Comes and goes and is usually in my pelvis, knees and feet. I was tested for Lupus and RA and they came back within normal ranges. Mood swings, horrible horrible allergies, and bad anxiety that I am taking Zoloft for. I also have weird sleep patterns that are ok sometimes and really wacky others.
Anyway, I hope some of you can help me. I feel miserable most of the time and my relationship with my husband is suffering.
eta- I also have asthma and IBS-constipation.
What I would do is get strict with the IC Diet, for awhile, a few weeks and then add some things back in and see how you do. Sometimes, you can have a borderline food/beverage - by that I mean, your bladder JUST tolerates it, but then throw in another borderline food and you have problems. And then it can compound on itself the more it gets aggrivated. So, try to stay strict on it for a few weeks, to help let your bladder calm down a bit. Regardless of having IC, there are some foods that aggrivate healthy bladders, etc, just because they are aggrivating foods, lol! 
to the ICN. 
I did for about 3-4 weeks and my symptoms got much better. I slowly introduced it back into my diet and things were not as bad. I bought one of those Senseo 1 cup machines so that I would only drink 1 small cup per day. I just LOVE it so much. I was considering getting some of that low acid coffee. 
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