Interstitial Cystitis

Definition

Interstitial cystitis also called painful bladder syndrome-is a chronic condition in which you experience bladder pressure, bladder pain and sometimes pelvic pain, ranging from mild discomfort to severe pain. Bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine. The bladder expands until it's full and then signals your brain that it's time to urinate, communicating through the pelvic nerves. This creates the urge to urinate for most people. With interstitial cystitis, these signals get mixed up-you feel the need to urinate more often and with smaller volumes of urine than most people.

Symptoms and Treatment

The signs and symptoms of interstitial cystitis vary from person to person. If you have interstitial cystitis, your symptoms may also vary over time, periodically flaring in response to common triggers, such as menstruation, sitting for a long time, stress, exercise and sexual activity. No simple treatment exists to eliminate the signs and symptoms of interstitial cystitis, and no one treatment works for everyone. You may need to try various treatments or combinations of treatments before you find an approach that relieves your symptoms.

Out of the estimated population 3,969,5582 Right Diagnosis conducted a survey and concludes that the extrapolated incidence of Interstitial cystitis patients was found to be 210,388