Re: UROGYNECOLOGY: end of my rope...please help
From: Amy Rosenman, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:00:25 -0500 (CDT)
Message posted on Amy Rosenman, M.D. behalf by: Hope, Women’s Health
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I would recommend seeing a gyn or urogyn or urologist who is familiar
with Interstitial cystitis. It is treatable medically (Elmiron), and
with diet modification, can be triggered by a bladder infection but
continues long after the infection is healed. Elmiron and bladder
instillations of medication can treat this condition if this is what you
have and it sounds suspicious for this.
--
Amy Rosenman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor GYN
UCLA - Santa Monica, California
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At Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Laura wrote:
>
>This is one of my last resorts...to get every piece of advice I can for
>these problems I am having. To start...three years ago I woke up in the
>night with horrible pain in my side...I went to ER to find out that I
>had a bladder infection for so long that it spread to kidneys. The doc
>gave me antibiotics and I got better for about a month. Then, I started
>having the urgency to urinate and pain in my bladder. I had another
>bladder infection. I was put on antibiotics...again...and got another
>infection three weeks later. That cycle continued for many months until
>my doctor put me on a "maintenence dose" of Bactrim. I was on it every
>day for 9 months. The symptoms never entirely went away though...it
>seemed ok, but I could tell something was still not right. I stopped
>taking it and nothing changed. I went to see urologist and he told me
>there was no bacteria in my urine...but I had symptoms... Well, about a
>month after that, my symptoms started going away. Now, this was the
>first time I had started to feel normal in almost 2 1/2 years...and for
>4-5 months, I felt great. I finally felt like I was urinating ALL of it
>when I went...the urge and frequency went away...no pain...everything
>felt fine, and I started thinking it was some phase. Well...three weeks
>ago, pain started in my lower bladder area. I went to urgent care and
>they said I had bacteria in my urine....he put me on 10 day dosage of
>Cipro.. my symptoms did not go away....the urge and frequency only got
>worse actually...with hardly anything coming out each time. I went to a
>new urologist who gave me Detrol LA which did not do anything either. He
>then gave me a limited catscan for stones last week and said it came
>back normal and my urine was normal.
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