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I saw Dr. Whitmore
The meeting went well, except I got the feeling I was being rushed. Most of my questions got answered, mostly stuff we all already know.
She (well,another lady) measured my pelvic floor muscles and she's sending me for PFT to see if that helps with the pain during sex. She said it can also help the IC flares because it's all inter-related.
I explained to her how my flares have signifigantly improved over the past 2 months with the Elmiron and watching my diet. I told her my husband and I are trying to have a baby so I don't really want to take any more meds. Yeah, so she then gave me Nortriptyline and Urocit-K. I guess she wasn't listening.
I haven't taken the Nortrip. yet but I have taken The Urocit-K. I think it's causing a little bit of a flare. I'm going to call her and let her know. I'm going to stop it and watch my diet very closely and maybe try it agian. I don't think I ate any no-nos though. It's supposed to take the acidity out of your urine but it's mostly potassium, isn't that a trigger?
Has anyone else had any experience with it?
How about Nortriptyline? It's only 10mg every night.
Overall I have to say I wasn't very impressed with her, she was kind of abrubt,( I do understand that she's a busy woman,but I hardly even saw her). Hopefully between the PFT and maybe the Nortrip. the little flaring I do get sometimes and the sex pain will get less and less.
I am glad I went though. While I was in the waitng room I was looking around wondering if any of you were there sitting right next to me.
I'll keep you all updated on the PFT. Thanks for encouraging me to go!
Erin
She (well,another lady) measured my pelvic floor muscles and she's sending me for PFT to see if that helps with the pain during sex. She said it can also help the IC flares because it's all inter-related.
I explained to her how my flares have signifigantly improved over the past 2 months with the Elmiron and watching my diet. I told her my husband and I are trying to have a baby so I don't really want to take any more meds. Yeah, so she then gave me Nortriptyline and Urocit-K. I guess she wasn't listening.
I haven't taken the Nortrip. yet but I have taken The Urocit-K. I think it's causing a little bit of a flare. I'm going to call her and let her know. I'm going to stop it and watch my diet very closely and maybe try it agian. I don't think I ate any no-nos though. It's supposed to take the acidity out of your urine but it's mostly potassium, isn't that a trigger?
Has anyone else had any experience with it?
How about Nortriptyline? It's only 10mg every night.
Overall I have to say I wasn't very impressed with her, she was kind of abrubt,( I do understand that she's a busy woman,but I hardly even saw her). Hopefully between the PFT and maybe the Nortrip. the little flaring I do get sometimes and the sex pain will get less and less.
I am glad I went though. While I was in the waitng room I was looking around wondering if any of you were there sitting right next to me.
I'll keep you all updated on the PFT. Thanks for encouraging me to go!
Erin
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