UTI and IC info from Sharon

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I have been reading so much about UTI's and many trips to the bathroom

I had a bladder disease that was called interstitial cystitis, it is

the disease that eventurally took my bladder giving me a urostomy bag.

IC is a disease of the bladder lining, it gives all the symptoms of a

UTI: burning, needing to pee, itching, not emptying bladder, the nick

name of this disese is the mad womans' disease - as you go to the

doctor and complain and they say negative to a UTI, it is a maddening

disease, I had/have it. There is no cure, except for bladder removal.

I was treated with ditropan for the need to go, uricid and uriblue for

the burning, mepergans for the pain, and had to go on disabiility. It

more commonly affects woman but can affect men. The link to learn more

about it is:

http://www.ichelp.org/

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Hello again, I wanted to add more about interstitial cystitis: Uricid

or uriblue, turns urine blue in color supposed to aid in the peeing a

litle more and less often and spasms if I recall correctly. Ditropan,

supposed to aid in burning of urine and again help you pee more.

The only way to diagnose interstitial cystitis is a dilation of the

bladder, which is done under anesthesia, when they fill the bladder to

overextend it and look for tiny hemoragges that are the trademark for

IC. Methenamine is an antibiotic which is used for prevent recurrent

UTI's, it is a huge horse pill that is taken 4 times a day, antibiotics

that are good for UTI's bactrim DS taken only for 3 days, it is a sulfa

med, Avelox 400 mg,taken once a day for 5-10 days depending on personal

needs, levaquin 500mg, taken once a day, cranberry pills never worked

for me and the warning on cranberry pills if you have a history of

kidney stones do not take them so I cannot take them, please always

read the fine print of information given to you by the pharmacy or

google on webmd to read all about them, thanks and hugs, sharon m

all of these are what i have taken personally, I am not a nurse or a

doctor but I am a professional patient, with many years of experience

with recurrent real UTI's and IC as well.

just to let you know hugs, sharon, m