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Showing posts with label Lifelong Disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lifelong Disease. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

What It Feels Like to Live With an Incurable Bladder Disease

Nicole Abi-Najem, a 28-year old student from Toronto, has interstitial cystitis, an extremely painful bladder condition that has been likened to having a permanent urinary tract infection.

In 2012, I was working out and I went to the bathroom. When I finished peeing, I still felt like I had to go, but I knew that my bladder was empty. Doctors initially thought it was a urinary tract infection, but a test showed there wasn’t any bacteria. They gave me antibiotics, but the feeling didn’t go away. I went to a urologist, and he performed a cystoscopy to examine the inside of my bladder. He saw nothing. With both those tests clear, a specialist at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto eventually concluded that I had interstitial cystitis.



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