Overview

• Interstitial Cystitis (Mayo)

Condition Specific Sites

• Interstitial Cystitis Association

Symptoms

• A persistent, urgent need to urinate.
• Frequent urination that occurs during the day and night, yet you may only pass small volumes of urine each time. People with interstitial cystitis urinate about 16 times a day on average, but this number can vary and may go as high as 60 times a day.
• Pain in your lower abdomen (suprapubic) or between the vagina and anus in women or the scrotum and anus in men (perineal).
• Pain during sexual intercourse. Men may also experience painful ejaculation.
• Chronic pelvic pain.

Diagnosis

• IC and the Potassium Chloride Sensitivity Test (Interstitial Cystitis Association)
• Ultrasound: Pelvis (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
• Cystoscopy and Ureteroscopy (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)
• Imaging of the Urinary Tract (National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Treatments

• Bladder Retraining Program (Interstitial Cystitis Association)
• Oral Medications for IC: An Expanded Treatment Arsenal (Interstitial Cystitis Association)
• Surgical Procedures (Interstitial Cystitis Association)

Anatomy

• Your Body's Design for Bladder Control (National Kidney and Urological Diseases Information Clearinghouse)

Ogranizations and Patient-Centered Sites

• Interstitial Cystitis Association
• American Foundation for Urologic Disease
• American Urological Association
• National Association for Continence
• National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)