
Interstitial Cystitis and Pot Roast
This traditional (Interstitial Cystitis friendly) pot roast recipe comes from Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions. The key to this recipe is marinating the meat ...
Interstitial Cystitis (IC), Bladderpainsyndrome (BPS) Shop
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Interstitial Cystitis and Coffee Milkshake
Combine low/no acid coffee with vanilla ice cream and what do you get? Heaven in a glass (and a Interstitial Cystitis friendly recipe)! Cold brewed coffee ...
Interstitial Cystitis: Allergies and Diet
Guest Blog Post by ICAF Daily News It is not unusual for an interstitial cystitis patient to be diagnosed with overlapping syndromes including food sensitivities and/or ...
Palmitoylethanolamide (Normast) effective in bladder pain
Bladder pain is caused by a chronic inflammation of the urinary bladder. This inflammation is associated with a relative thermal hyperalgesia referred to the hind ...
Blog Talk Radio
“The Pelvic Messenger” show was brought about when I realized how popular my website and also my work as an Advocate and Spokesperson had become ...
How Food Can Affect a Painful Bladder
Before I wrote the first version of Customizing the Interstitial Cystitis Diet, one concept I had to work around--delicately I might add--was the idea of ...Can Quitting Smoking Help Ease Interstitial Cystitis Pain?
Smoking can worsen symptoms of chronic pain according to David O. Warner, MD and his research team from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in ...
Understanding the Interstitial Cystitis Diet
Determining Your Personal Trigger Foods Diet modification is the first line of defense for patients struggling with interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome (IC/PBS). Since sensitivity ...
Interstitial Cystitis / Painful Bladder Pain changes into general pain syndrome
The Painful bladder syndrome, what is it? And what is Interstitial Cystitis? Is there a difference? And what is the problem with waiting too long before a diagnosis appears, and waiting too long before treatment? Painfiul bladder syndrom can change untreated and unrecognized into chronic pain, even to fibromyalgia and other chronic pain states! Recognize [...]
Doorbraak in chronische pijnbehandeling: Normast® beschikbaar in Nederland
Per jaar sterven er 500 patienten door bijwerkingen van de meest gewone pijnstillers. Dat is aanleiding om koortsachtig verder te zoeken naar betere pijnstillers met minder problemen. Eindelijk nu die doorbraak waar patiënten met chronische pijn jarenlang op hebben zitten te wachten. Een pijnstiller die van nature al door ons lichaam gemaakt wordt, maar bij [...]
Recruitment for Pfizer IC Tanezumab Study Temporarily Stopped
We reported in the past few months that Pfizer is testing tanezumab which is an antibody directed against nerve growth factor for treatment of pain for many chronic conditions including IC. You may have heard that an osteoarthritis trial with tanezuma…
New Pelvic Pain Clinic for Women Opens at Loyola
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) has opened a clinic to treat chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women..
Interested in a Stay-At-Home Career? How About Writing?
One of the toughest challenges when you have a chronic condition such as Interstitial Cystitis can be going to work when you don’t feel your best, when you may be put into a situation where you don’t have easy access to a restroom or are otherwise struggling in the workplace. There are, however, legitimate ways [...]
Normast: Chronic pain due to neuropathy and sciatica treated with Normast
Chronic pain due to neuropathy and sciatica treated with Normast® Severe neuropathic pain due to and a chronic neuropathy as well as due to nerve compression by a herniated disk, both pains reacted quick and after administering Normast® the patient’s pain decreased considerably, and he could start working again, after being on sick leave for [...]
Interstitial Cystitis: A Survivor’s Tale
Six years ago inside a 1920s cabin, complete with wood stove and a white claw foot tub, perched high in the mountains of Colorado lived a woman and a man and their cat family. This little cabin and their lives merging together was supposed to be a colorful new thread in the tapestry of their [...]
Now in Print: Higher Interstitial Cystitis Prevalence Statistics
In April 2009, the ICA reported that 3 to 6 percent of American women—3 to 8 million of them—have interstitial cystitis symptoms. That new prevalence estimate presented by the RAND interstitial cystitis Epidemiology (RICE) research team was the biggest interstitial cystitisstory at 2009’s annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA). This month’s Journal of Urology® [...]









