Women with recurrent UTI's

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hello all,

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

i had a bladder disease tha 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 doc and complain an they say

negative to uti, it is a maddening disease i had/have it. there is no cure,

exxcept me 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/

just to let you know hugs, sharon, m

ps victoria, please put this email in the links somewhere thanks

---- Vallerie Edmonds wrote:

Imogene,

Yes she does take a medication to control too many trips to the bathroom. She

was waking up too many times in the night and it was distrubing both her and

dad. She needs help with the potty chair next to the bed at night. I was aware

that the medication caused dry mouth but not aware that a person taking it did

not feel the need to drink. Is that what you were saying?

Thanks

Vallerie