I did not get to finish my post-- I wanted to let you the test is a cystocopy with hydrodistention
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/interstitialcystitis/#diagnosis
To help with mine I take Elmiron and know what food triggers I need to avoid. *which is different for everyone for example a website says that pears are safe and to avoid strawberries well it is the exact opposite for me.)
achilles2
When it is difficult and painful to uriniate is it around the time of your period if so you might want to find a endometriosis specialists and get checked for endo.
oh ok TY for that update. I need to be re-checked as I have a new DR since I was tested last & she had said the test would be the same as before. Do u know what they do now instead
Potassium test has been discredited; should not be done anymore.
I was diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis MORE then 10 yrs ago & still suffer from it. I had been put on meds to help it, but havent been on any in at least 6 yrs. It is VERY painful. They will probably want to do a Cystoscopy which is basically a catheter palced into your bladder & they then fill it with saline & empty it, them fill it with potassium & empty it. if it burns with the potassium then it's definitely interstitial cystitis. I remember that pain as vividly as I remember the births of my 5 kids & my god it hurt. Be sure to take the meds they prescribe as if u dont you can burn a hole in ur bladder which is VERY painful & you will most likely have a special diet to folow such as no foods high in potassium like bananas.
hope that helps. feel free to msg me if you want more info.
Melissa
I have been to the doctors quite a few times about it, 2 of the times I just got given a prescription for antibiotics and sent away, and then the last time I went they took a urine sample for tests but they never got back to me about them and then I phoned them they tried to tell me that they had no idea what I was talking about, they didn't have my results and I had apparently never given them a sample. So I'm a bit stuck on what's going on at the moment
have u gone to a doctor to have it checked out? i would definitally do that! i am 21 and i have been fighting a pelvic pain for 3 years, they removed my appendix thinking that was it and it was not. they have done 4 different test on me and evything came back normal. now i have to go see s urologist because they think i have a disease in my bladder calles interstital cystitis. ik what ur going through.