elerah is getting on with it
It’s every bit as painful and debilitating as many of the other diseases/condtions that make people look sick but since we don’t usually appear to be ill and since it deals with the bladder, most people and indeed, many doctors laugh IC off.
Imagine the worst UTI you’ve ever had. If you haven’t had one, imagine your bladder filled with boiling sulforic acid and then peeing out this acid through a urethra that has been tenderized per your favorite steak. Now, imagine, if you will, this pain going on day after day after day. You have to void constantly. You’re sick to your stomach with the pain. Your back hurts.
Now imagine going to work and being told that you are fakeing. Imagine being told that you need to “tough it out” or to get some antibiotics and detrol and to quit complaining. Imagine losing your job because you can’t get out of bed and when you can get out of bed, you’re chained to the toilet. And you don’t know what’s wrong with you.
That’s just a little what IC is like.
Next: What Interstitial Cystitis is…
