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I would also like to add that I had numerous bladder infections from early

childhood until the birth of my 2 nd child. During adolecence and early

twenties I had a bladder infection at least twice a month and one leading to

a kidney infection. They could never get a handle on this. Did anyone else

here have a lot of bladder infections before getting diagnosed with IgA?

Also in the past during my adolecent years- I was sort of going through an

( I am immortal/ I am self-destructive mode) and I did two pretty dumb

thing-once I took a large overdose on tylenol, sudefed and some other stuff

I could find in my parents medicine cabinet. They took me the hospital and

pumped my stomach. A couple years down the road I did another overdose-using

my ex boyfriends entire botte of expired antidepressants and they did not

find me until it was too late to pump me and give me charcoal over 12

hours-all they could do was monitor my heart and vitals. I often wondered

if these two stupid actions plus the multiple bladder infections could have

done something to my kidneys. BOY I WAS DUMB when I was a teen. I did not

have a continuous doctor at the time so I was not consistently followed up.

The er never really said much to me about it.

Carolyn

Delicate matter?

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> > Hi Friends

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> > Me again? Perhaps you can see why I said I was challenging to my

> > Neph......always questions? Now this is a delicate matter, and

> particulary

> > aimed at the ladies with IGAN.....has anyone noticed that sexual

activity

> > has become painful since diagnosis? I suffer with real bad flank pain

> > afterwards, and low abdomen and groin pain......admittedly I have a

urine

> > dynamic test coming up in January to check bladder function etc.......my

> > Neph said he has heard of similar complaints before now, but surprise

> > surprise, it has not been proven medically that IGAN can cause sexual

> > activity pain? But he did hint that IGAN can clash with hormone

balances,

> > which can cause this type of problem. Thoughts anyone?

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> > Has taken me ages to pluck up the courage to post this, but I have done

it

> > now.

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> > Thanks

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