Lorane
Marguerite: The main complaint of a patient with IC is like a red hot bladder infection and the feeling you need to urinate all the time & it usually burns. There are many various symtoms. Dilating the urethra USED to be THE treatment but it has been declared brutal & of no help..only injury. I had that over 100 xxs and the urethra is now scarred and on fire constantly. So, now, they are talking of a condition called Female Prostatitis which is the name of the urethra burning so badly & not just the bladder..sometimes it doesn't burn at all..only the urethra..as I have. If you want to discuss this further, feel free to email me..I talk with about 400 IC patients on our IC message Board and the chat line.Lorane