I know that I am not the only person on the board that suffers from this. It's an inflammation of the lining of the bladder (there are no cysts involved, no clue how that got in there), and frankly Scarlett, it's kicking my ass right now.
I've read just about everything on the net, I've been through all the unpleasantness with the urologist (feet in stirrups while they catheterize you so they can go in and take pix is not my idea of fun. Then they tell you that you've got it (which you'd already figured out) and tell you that the only treatment is a surgery with a whopping 25% success rate. Oh fun, oh joy. They should tell you that first and you could just skip cooch crawling.
Anyway, why I'm bringing all this up is...have any of you found anything in particular that seems to sooth this beast? Something you cut from your diet or maybe something you added. I take Prelief when I eat. I've already cut any form of tomatoes or citrus (I squeezed a wedge of lemon over my vegies last night and boy am I paying today), I don't drink coffee and have cut way back on the DC (if I have to eliminate entirely I may never be fully awake again), chocolate has been pretty much eliminated, spices with any kind of heat are out (I'm not giving up garlic, you can just shoot me if that's what it takes). Alcohol is down to a minimum. I'm getting tired of scrambled eggs.
Ideas???
I've read just about everything on the net, I've been through all the unpleasantness with the urologist (feet in stirrups while they catheterize you so they can go in and take pix is not my idea of fun. Then they tell you that you've got it (which you'd already figured out) and tell you that the only treatment is a surgery with a whopping 25% success rate. Oh fun, oh joy. They should tell you that first and you could just skip cooch crawling.
Anyway, why I'm bringing all this up is...have any of you found anything in particular that seems to sooth this beast? Something you cut from your diet or maybe something you added. I take Prelief when I eat. I've already cut any form of tomatoes or citrus (I squeezed a wedge of lemon over my vegies last night and boy am I paying today), I don't drink coffee and have cut way back on the DC (if I have to eliminate entirely I may never be fully awake again), chocolate has been pretty much eliminated, spices with any kind of heat are out (I'm not giving up garlic, you can just shoot me if that's what it takes). Alcohol is down to a minimum. I'm getting tired of scrambled eggs.
Ideas???
