Posted in Miscellaneous on Jun 30th, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
Ethex Corporation notified healthcare professionals of a voluntary recall of a single lot of morphine sulfate 60 mg extended release tablets (Lot No. 91762) due to a report of a tablet with twice the appropriate thickness. Oversized tablets may contain as much as two times the labeled level of active morphine sulfate. The lot was […]
Posted in IC Diet, IC Disease on Jun 30th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
IC Disease patients may find that certain foods and drinks cause their symptoms to flare. This is especially true at the beginning or at the worst part of the illness. When I was at my worst with IC, just drinking water caused excruciating pain and caused my urine to burn terribly. Until an IC patient […]
Posted in IC Disease, My IC Life on Jun 29th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
I can’t honestly remember a time in my life when I didn’t have to go to the bathroom much more than everyone else I knew. As a teenager, it was actually a running joke with a close friend of mine that I owed her family cases of toilet paper. I lived about five minutes away […]
Posted in IC Disease on Jun 28th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
The European Society for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis Annual Meeting was recently held in Rome from June 5 - 7, 2008. This year’s meeting consisted of 100 urologists and other healthcare professionals to discuss different presentations that focused on Interstitial Cystitis.
One goal from this year’s meeting of the ESSIC was to increase cooperation around the world […]
Posted in IC Disease on Jun 27th, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
According to the IC Network, approximately 10% of Interstitial Cystitis patients are men but that figure has been disputed. While the illness is mainly regarded as a “women’s disease”, men are afflicted and suffer as well. It is thought that there have been several men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis who in fact have Interstitial Cystitis.
At […]
Posted in IC Disease on Jun 26th, 2008 Edit | 2 Comments »
While it is obvious that Interstitial Cystitis patients use many medical resources, there hasn’t been enough research done on what the economic burden of the illness has caused.
Researchers from Chicago and Portland attempted to determine the direct medical costs to the healthcare system associated with a diagnosis of IC Disease. Their goal was also to […]
Posted in IC Disease, Lupus, Treatments on Jun 25th, 2008 Edit | 3 Comments »
As I had previously discussed in this Lupus series, there currently is not a cure for Lupus but the illness can be managed for most patients. An early diagnosis and appropriate medical care can help control the disease and keep it from progressing. Treating Lupus is different for each patient, as it needs to be […]
Posted in Lupus on Jun 24th, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
There are four different types of Lupus. These include:
Discoid (cutaneous)
Systemic
Drug-induced
Neonatal
Discoid Lupus
Discoid Lupus affects the skin. People with this form of Lupus will have a rash that appears on the face, neck and/or scalp. Discoid Lupus is diagnosed by biopsying the rash. There is typically no organ involvement in Discoid Lupus and a few people with […]
Posted in Blog Carnival on Jun 23rd, 2008 Edit | 6 Comments »
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in my first blog carnival here on the IC Disease Blog! I am excited that I received so many entries. This month I didn’t have a theme set up for the carnival. The only thing I requested was that the posts be health-related.
Next month’s blog carnival will be […]
Posted in Diagnosis, IC Disease, Lupus on Jun 23rd, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
Lupus is another chronic disease that there currently is not a cure for. While the illness will never go away (unless a cure is found), symptoms can go into remission and doctors can control the illness with medication. That doesn’t mean that the patient still doesn’t suffer, however. If a patient is diagnosed early in […]
