What is Interstitial Cystitis?

What is Interstitial Cystitis?


Interstitial Cystitis is the worst bladder infection you've ever had, except no bacteria is present, there is no cure, many foods make it worse, and separate treatments have maybe 1/3 of a chance of helping. The only true "treatment" is treating the pain, as its usually the only thing that will work. Even patients who've had their bladders removed still experience the pain. Doctors don't know what causes it or how to get rid of it but have many theories.



Need to find a doctor in your area who actually knows how to deal with IC humanely? Click here.

These are the new guidelines for diagnosing IC. If your doctor isn't using these then I suggest you find a new one who keeps up to date.

You can find the IC safe collaborated recipes between me and my step dad here.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

For $5000 evidently you can have your own personal hyperbaric chamber!

I'd equate it to a vampire and his coffin. One of the ads at the bottom was advertising one for that price. With my insurance co-pay (IF they pay) it'd be $80 a trip. Could just get a loan, freelance write hardcore, and keep one in my room so I can totally be a vampire with a coffin and all that.

According to them:

Elimination of intravascular and tissue gas bubbles, which trigger coagulopathy and other mechanisms in the complex diving disorder, decompression sickness.

Restoration of CNS perfusion by compression of intravascular gas emboli in pulmonary over-pressure diving accidents or iatrogenic intravascular gas embolism.

Increased partial pressure of oxygen (tension) which increases the amount of oxygen dissolved in plasma. This can increase oxygen levels to approximately 450 mmHg at the tissue level.

The effects of increased oxygen tensions are seen in a variety of different situations:

Vasoconstriction and reduction of edema in the area of trauma. Oxygen tension may be 10 to 20 times that achieved by normobaric oxygen breathing.

Rapid dissociation of carbon monoxide molecules from hemoglobin and cytochrome A3 oxidase (23 minutes at 3 ATA) as well as greatly improved delivery of dissolved oxygen in the plasma.

Stimulation of growth and occurrence of fibroblasts, osteoclasts and granulocytes, resulting in wound healing. The resulting angiogenesis enhances healing skin grafts, select problem wounds and compromised flaps.

Cessation of alpha toxin production by the clostridial organisms in gas gangrene.




I'm still not sure how this can help people with IC but the research tells me its the next way to go.. and if they want to charge an arm and a leg then I can stuff this thing somewhere after a large loan (only after discovering if the therapy is the cure for me though).

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