Comments on: New Evidence Report on Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/09/new-evidence-report-on-treatment-of-overactive-bladder-in-women Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mrs spock http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2009/09/new-evidence-report-on-treatment-of-overactive-bladder-in-women/comment-page-1#comment-2688 mrs spock Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:28:47 +0000 http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/?p=8781#comment-2688 I had my own bladder nightmare several years ago, and spent two years in excruciating pain (I define excruciating as fantasizing about blowing ones brains out to escape form the pain). I saw four different doctors, two of them urologists. It was all very hit or miss. I was on antibiotics fruitlessly for months. The final urologist diagnosed me with IC, and I did have great benefit from following a low-acidity diet and using Prelief. He told me there was a 1% possibility of my having a mycoplasma bacterial infection, but it required a special culture, as it wouldn't grow using usual methods. I had that bacteria. 6 weeks of doxycycline, and my symptoms were reduced by 80%. We tested for sensitivity (only 2 labs in the country were able to do this, he said) and discovered I had a doxycycline resistant strain. A month of azithromycin later, and I was no longer in pain. I wonder if I would have had to live like that for 2 years if the first urologist had been more cognizant of the latest research? I had my own bladder nightmare several years ago, and spent two years in excruciating pain (I define excruciating as fantasizing about blowing ones brains out to escape form the pain). I saw four different doctors, two of them urologists. It was all very hit or miss. I was on antibiotics fruitlessly for months. The final urologist diagnosed me with IC, and I did have great benefit from following a low-acidity diet and using Prelief. He told me there was a 1% possibility of my having a mycoplasma bacterial infection, but it required a special culture, as it wouldn’t grow using usual methods. I had that bacteria. 6 weeks of doxycycline, and my symptoms were reduced by 80%. We tested for sensitivity (only 2 labs in the country were able to do this, he said) and discovered I had a doxycycline resistant strain. A month of azithromycin later, and I was no longer in pain.

I wonder if I would have had to live like that for 2 years if the first urologist had been more cognizant of the latest research?

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