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New here and just diagnosed with IC...problem-painful intercourse.
Hi everyone. I’m new here and new to IC. I’ve read a couple different posts here and I wonder if anyone is like me.
I’m Cindy, married to Jason for 6+yrs. We have 2 sons, Erik is 4.5 and Jack is 15m. We live in NWPA. I’m a SAHM and a student. Both my husband and I start Nursing School in August.
It all started a couple years ago. Intercourse started to become painful. It would “poke”. I dealt with it for a while thinking it wasn’t anything. Time went on and I finally went to the dr. They did an u/s and saw nothing wrong so no reason for the pain. I’ve had one counselor tell me it’s probably in my head…so I started to think that. (after all I was in counseling for a sexual reason) I switched Dr’s during my last pregnancy. I had another u/s at this Dr and of course they found nothing. At my last yearly I talked to the Dr and she said it was just my body. :O
So I call to make my appointment for this years yearly and I ask for a different person. They schedule me before my yrly to discuss the pain. I went in May 18th for my appointment. She said that since everyone else has thought INSIDE the vagina she was going to think OUTSIDE the vagina. I filled out this survey paper and she said based on that she thinks I might have IC but she wanted to do one last thing to see. So I got my 1st catheter put in right at the DR office. She said she was going to put 2 different things in my bladder and I was to tell her if I felt like I had to pee and if it hurt. 1st one I felt nothing (turns out it was water and I shouldn’t have felt anything). 2nd one was Potassium (K+) and almost instantly I felt pain. It wasn’t a real bad pain but a “get it out NOW!” kind of pain. She said that I did indeed have IC. So she put something else in my bladder and said that it should put a coating around my bladder. I was told to go home and in a day or so have sex. We waited a day then had sex and it didn’t hurt! A couple days later we tried again all excited that this was it and the pain was back. So now I had to figure out what was causing the IC.
I was told to eliminate a lot of things out of my diet. I tried but failed. I read the papers she gave me and decided to look around online. 2 of the things that can mess with IC that popped out to me from when the pain started were vitamins (we were TTC) and wheat (we were trying to eat healthier). I’ve only experimented with the wheat. But I did eliminate both of them from my diet. I’ve added wheat bread and wheat pasta back in and each time I do, the pain is back. As early as 6hrs we noticed a difference. So I’m keeping wheat out of my diet and soon will bring vitamins back in to see if they do anything. (I’d like to take my prenatal vitamins still b/c I’m nursing the baby)
So there is my intro and my “story”. If I can find for sure that it is the wheat causing the problems and that it’s that easy of a fix then I’m sure I’m lucky. It’s been going on for a few years and I know that’s nothing compared to some of you but sex IS a big part of a marriage and I was to the point where I hated it and felt that I deserved the pain. And my view of my husband was changing also. So this is HUGE for us.
I’m Cindy, married to Jason for 6+yrs. We have 2 sons, Erik is 4.5 and Jack is 15m. We live in NWPA. I’m a SAHM and a student. Both my husband and I start Nursing School in August.
It all started a couple years ago. Intercourse started to become painful. It would “poke”. I dealt with it for a while thinking it wasn’t anything. Time went on and I finally went to the dr. They did an u/s and saw nothing wrong so no reason for the pain. I’ve had one counselor tell me it’s probably in my head…so I started to think that. (after all I was in counseling for a sexual reason) I switched Dr’s during my last pregnancy. I had another u/s at this Dr and of course they found nothing. At my last yearly I talked to the Dr and she said it was just my body. :O
So I call to make my appointment for this years yearly and I ask for a different person. They schedule me before my yrly to discuss the pain. I went in May 18th for my appointment. She said that since everyone else has thought INSIDE the vagina she was going to think OUTSIDE the vagina. I filled out this survey paper and she said based on that she thinks I might have IC but she wanted to do one last thing to see. So I got my 1st catheter put in right at the DR office. She said she was going to put 2 different things in my bladder and I was to tell her if I felt like I had to pee and if it hurt. 1st one I felt nothing (turns out it was water and I shouldn’t have felt anything). 2nd one was Potassium (K+) and almost instantly I felt pain. It wasn’t a real bad pain but a “get it out NOW!” kind of pain. She said that I did indeed have IC. So she put something else in my bladder and said that it should put a coating around my bladder. I was told to go home and in a day or so have sex. We waited a day then had sex and it didn’t hurt! A couple days later we tried again all excited that this was it and the pain was back. So now I had to figure out what was causing the IC.
I was told to eliminate a lot of things out of my diet. I tried but failed. I read the papers she gave me and decided to look around online. 2 of the things that can mess with IC that popped out to me from when the pain started were vitamins (we were TTC) and wheat (we were trying to eat healthier). I’ve only experimented with the wheat. But I did eliminate both of them from my diet. I’ve added wheat bread and wheat pasta back in and each time I do, the pain is back. As early as 6hrs we noticed a difference. So I’m keeping wheat out of my diet and soon will bring vitamins back in to see if they do anything. (I’d like to take my prenatal vitamins still b/c I’m nursing the baby)
So there is my intro and my “story”. If I can find for sure that it is the wheat causing the problems and that it’s that easy of a fix then I’m sure I’m lucky. It’s been going on for a few years and I know that’s nothing compared to some of you but sex IS a big part of a marriage and I was to the point where I hated it and felt that I deserved the pain. And my view of my husband was changing also. So this is HUGE for us.
I have mentioned Endo as I was scheduled for a LAP right before I got PG with my youngest to check for endo. My Dr said that many people have endo and IC.
Kitty!
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