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Would really appreciate advice
Hey there, I've been back and forth to these boards a few times over the years but never registered til last week. I'm 19, from Scotland and have had IC since I was around 13/14.
*this entries turned out kind of long but I'd really be so grateful if you could bear with me and give me some comments*
The problem I'd really like anyone's advice on is kind of intimate. I have some vaginal redness since October which has flared up and down along with however bad my IC is affecting. I've been to the doctors and nurse several times for it and tried a few creams in the beginning when they suspected it might have been a yeast infection of something. But no cream made any difference. But because there's no other symptoms I've been assured not to worry.
In January, I had a blood test done, which I've had before when I had IC, and the results were fine except there was one part that read really high, which apparently meant that I had a lot of inflammation. I have had a bit of a hard time since last summer when I went on my first contraceptive pill (I was having periods less than a week apart, no joke!), which reacted to my IC extremely bad, and had a hard time getting back to normal afterwards and was in a lot of discomfort, since then I've tried two other pills, one in January which also aggreviated my IC greatly, and a new Pill this month which seems a bit milder.
Anyway I've gotten very far off track, basically I started seeing a new doctor this month, who is very brilliant (and was recommended to me by a temp. doctor I had been seeing since Christmas, who was the first doctor I'd met who HAD dealt with IC before!), and she told me that the inflammation and vaginal redness were probably linked to my IC flaring up (even when this redness flares down, it never totally disappears).
I just wondered what everyone's opinion on this would be, or if anyone had experienced anything similar before, afterall it has been since October and I am very frustrated it suddenly developed and won't seem to disappear now.
Thanks a lot, I really hope to become a more frequent poster. I don't know anybody at all who has IC and although there are support groups for it in Scotland they are all too far away from me, I find travelling long distances really difficult..although that said I also find short distances very stressful too haha!
Linz <3 xxx
*this entries turned out kind of long but I'd really be so grateful if you could bear with me and give me some comments*
The problem I'd really like anyone's advice on is kind of intimate. I have some vaginal redness since October which has flared up and down along with however bad my IC is affecting. I've been to the doctors and nurse several times for it and tried a few creams in the beginning when they suspected it might have been a yeast infection of something. But no cream made any difference. But because there's no other symptoms I've been assured not to worry.
In January, I had a blood test done, which I've had before when I had IC, and the results were fine except there was one part that read really high, which apparently meant that I had a lot of inflammation. I have had a bit of a hard time since last summer when I went on my first contraceptive pill (I was having periods less than a week apart, no joke!), which reacted to my IC extremely bad, and had a hard time getting back to normal afterwards and was in a lot of discomfort, since then I've tried two other pills, one in January which also aggreviated my IC greatly, and a new Pill this month which seems a bit milder.
Anyway I've gotten very far off track, basically I started seeing a new doctor this month, who is very brilliant (and was recommended to me by a temp. doctor I had been seeing since Christmas, who was the first doctor I'd met who HAD dealt with IC before!), and she told me that the inflammation and vaginal redness were probably linked to my IC flaring up (even when this redness flares down, it never totally disappears).
I just wondered what everyone's opinion on this would be, or if anyone had experienced anything similar before, afterall it has been since October and I am very frustrated it suddenly developed and won't seem to disappear now.
Thanks a lot, I really hope to become a more frequent poster. I don't know anybody at all who has IC and although there are support groups for it in Scotland they are all too far away from me, I find travelling long distances really difficult..although that said I also find short distances very stressful too haha!
Linz <3 xxx
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