Hello everyone.
Think i'm bit different from most people on this forum in that i'm male. I'm 29 years old and have just started to develop what I think are the symptoms of IC. My symptoms are what most people are describing here - pain and pressure in my abdomen and nearly constant urge to go to the toilet.
My doctor currently has me on a course of antibiotics and strong painkillers, despite the fact that on testing my urine there was no bacteria. So I asked him why I had to take antibiotics where there's no infection - he kind of shrugged and said all my symptoms point towards a UTI, even though he admitted these were pretty rare in a guy my age.
So I asked him if it could be IC? And his response? He said, that's more of a theory that a real illness. I couldn't believe it and was left really distressed and actually depressed by his response.
I am really feeling at a low just now, not being able to see anyway out of this - i have had to take time off work for the symptoms. And in my head i'm slowly seeing my whole life collapse because of this. I really am not sure I can deal with this mentally.
But thank goodness, there is a place I can come to talk about it - and i'm sorry to bore you all with my problems when I know everyone here is going through it.
Conor.
Think i'm bit different from most people on this forum in that i'm male. I'm 29 years old and have just started to develop what I think are the symptoms of IC. My symptoms are what most people are describing here - pain and pressure in my abdomen and nearly constant urge to go to the toilet.
My doctor currently has me on a course of antibiotics and strong painkillers, despite the fact that on testing my urine there was no bacteria. So I asked him why I had to take antibiotics where there's no infection - he kind of shrugged and said all my symptoms point towards a UTI, even though he admitted these were pretty rare in a guy my age.
So I asked him if it could be IC? And his response? He said, that's more of a theory that a real illness. I couldn't believe it and was left really distressed and actually depressed by his response.
I am really feeling at a low just now, not being able to see anyway out of this - i have had to take time off work for the symptoms. And in my head i'm slowly seeing my whole life collapse because of this. I really am not sure I can deal with this mentally.
But thank goodness, there is a place I can come to talk about it - and i'm sorry to bore you all with my problems when I know everyone here is going through it.
Conor.
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