It's also called Interstitial Cystitis.
Oh! I've heard of that. I...actually have a lot of IC symptoms, but the problem is that they're also the symptoms of a lot of other things. V. frustrating.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
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Steph L. - Apr 22, 2013 8:43:20 am PDT #29249 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
askye - Apr 22, 2013 8:58:37 am PDT #29250 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
There's some research that shows Vitamin D helps with the symptoms and once I started taking it regularly that's when I was able to eat more.
But mine was always very mild and controlled by diet. I haven't had a UTI in a year (which is a big deal for me) but last year when I had a UTI I'd only eat my "safest" foods - corn, white rice, chicken or beef, parsley, fennel, garlic, potatoes, and milk. Which is a very limited diet but I would only do that for a few days and it would help the pain of the UTI,
sj - Apr 22, 2013 9:09:06 am PDT #29251 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Bactrim is also really good for uti's so I'm glad you at least have that in case you have one. Definitely don't let this drop if you don't have a uti, like others here have said, there could be other causes.
Steph L. - Apr 22, 2013 9:16:33 am PDT #29252 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Definitely don't let this drop if you don't have a uti, like others here have said, there could be other causes.
Oh, I won't. The symptoms are too intense to ignore. The NP said the next step would probably be a CT scan of my lower abdomen if it turns out to not be a UTI.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2013 10:00:40 am PDT #29253 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it recent years I have been "making my own yogurt" by getting the nonfat plain yogurt in the grocery store, taking it home, straining it overnight to get excess moisture out, then adding fresh fruit and a bit of honey. thick yogurt with fresh fruit and just a bit of sweet is perfect.
cut to today's lunch adventure when I got some light yoplait blueberry yogurt. It was so fucking sweet I couldn't take it. Done. I had to toss it out. I guess I accidentally have been spoiling myself.
le nubian - Apr 22, 2013 10:00:41 am PDT #29254 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
erikaj - Apr 22, 2013 10:23:43 am PDT #29255 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I've developed an allergy to Bactrim, so I'm lucky the UTI phase is calmer now.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2013 10:34:57 am PDT #29256 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
cut to today's lunch adventure when I got some light yoplait blueberry yogurt
OH MY GOD.
I have ongoing yoghurt issues, because I can't find enough of the right stuff. Apparently if you want other than plain or vanilla in quantity, Yoplait is the only person with flavours, and they have so much sugar. This is rework every time I go shopping. I shouldn't need to have notes.
erin_obscure - Apr 22, 2013 11:55:21 am PDT #29257 of 30001
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Anyone here know anything about medical coding? I got a really wierd charge on a statement that i suspect was a type-o on a procedure code but the interwebs are not helping much and my call to contest the statement kinda ended with "well, I'll sent it to the review board, that can take a few months, in the meantime your account might be sent to a collection agency..." which kinda peeves for something that I'm 100% certain was not part of my office visit.
JZ - Apr 22, 2013 12:55:22 pm PDT #29258 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I know a little bit -- more peds, but some adult as well; feel free to shoot me an email at my profile addy if you don't want to talk about it on the board (and, yes, that sounds entirely possible; I had a minor tussle with our insurers a while back about a miscoded office visit for Emmett).