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(sorry this is long there is a question at the end I promise)
so for the past few months I was experiencing a slight to moderate burning after I urinated. At first I thought it was just a bladder spaz because when I was about 4 years old I was diagnosed with an overactive bladder so when I didn't drink enough water I would first experience a burning and then it after a short time my bladder would seize up and make me feel like I needed to void but couldn't. But the burning never lead to needed to void a lot, I still only go about 6 times in a day. Now I haven't experienced these symptoms in years so I thought it was odd and when the burning persisted off and on for months I went in thinking maybe it was an infection, when the tests came up negative they sent me to a Urologist. He viewed my records of going into the doctor for UTI infections and in the past 2 years only 1 or 2 out of the 14 were actual infections with bacteria. He came up with the conclusion that it was probably IC, he had me do an ultrasound to make sure there was no blockage or masses (which there weren't). No I didn't get fully diagnosed, his analogy was that hopefully with a diet change they symptoms will get better and I wont have it on my record making it hard to get insurance later on.
After finding all this out I started doing my own research because I'm not completely convinced, and the more I read the more confused I get. I have a tender bladder, at most, it did get worse the week after he told me I probably had this, don't know if it was because of the initial stress or because he stuck me on a maintenance antibiotic (which I stopped taking out of a hunch and bladder pain is almost gone) . and the only symptom that makes sense with possible IC would be the burning in the vaginal area after I void. And the burning is mostly bearable, I don't have an over urgency to void, sex seldom hurts for me, and I cannot pinpoint which foods cause the symptoms. So from all you that know what it's like to have IC first hand, do you think its something else? or is it just possible that I caught the IC early on?
so for the past few months I was experiencing a slight to moderate burning after I urinated. At first I thought it was just a bladder spaz because when I was about 4 years old I was diagnosed with an overactive bladder so when I didn't drink enough water I would first experience a burning and then it after a short time my bladder would seize up and make me feel like I needed to void but couldn't. But the burning never lead to needed to void a lot, I still only go about 6 times in a day. Now I haven't experienced these symptoms in years so I thought it was odd and when the burning persisted off and on for months I went in thinking maybe it was an infection, when the tests came up negative they sent me to a Urologist. He viewed my records of going into the doctor for UTI infections and in the past 2 years only 1 or 2 out of the 14 were actual infections with bacteria. He came up with the conclusion that it was probably IC, he had me do an ultrasound to make sure there was no blockage or masses (which there weren't). No I didn't get fully diagnosed, his analogy was that hopefully with a diet change they symptoms will get better and I wont have it on my record making it hard to get insurance later on.
After finding all this out I started doing my own research because I'm not completely convinced, and the more I read the more confused I get. I have a tender bladder, at most, it did get worse the week after he told me I probably had this, don't know if it was because of the initial stress or because he stuck me on a maintenance antibiotic (which I stopped taking out of a hunch and bladder pain is almost gone) . and the only symptom that makes sense with possible IC would be the burning in the vaginal area after I void. And the burning is mostly bearable, I don't have an over urgency to void, sex seldom hurts for me, and I cannot pinpoint which foods cause the symptoms. So from all you that know what it's like to have IC first hand, do you think its something else? or is it just possible that I caught the IC early on?
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