welcome the month of september as IC awarness month

as most of my followers know i have IC intersistial cystitis. this is a very painful and debilitating condition. it causes me and many others to suffer with pain pressure freequency and urgent need to urinate. I have had a lot of bladder infections in the past but in recent years I have had symptoms with negative urine culture results and that is when it became evident that I needed further investigation into what was going on. My OBGYN did a test called the potassium sensitivity or potassium chalange test. this is a very painful test for an Ic patient. Two different solutions are infused into the bladder via catheter one is regular water and the other contains a dilute potassium solution. In the normal bladder people should not be able to tell the difference between the solutions but in my case i was imediately able to tell my doctor which one contained the potassium so it was determined that I have IC. this desiease is very contrivertial and there are still some doctors out there that do not believe it exists but I am a survivor of this condition it is real and it is painful it is not in our heads we know our bodies and how they should feel bladder pain is not normal. i hope that this helps to spread awarness I am not a medical professional and i am in no way trying to be I am just trying to spread awarness of a very painful condition thank yyou for taking the time to read this post.