The cause of interstitial cystitis, a chronic disease that affects the bladder, is unknown. Autoantibodies, such as those against nuclear and bladder epithelium antigens, have been found in patients ...

Editor's note: Although about 1 in 7 women in the United States report experiencing chronic pelvic pain, the causes often go undiagnosed. Surveys indicate that about 15% of working women lose time ...

For patients with interstitial cystitis (IC), longer cystoscopic hydrodistention (HD) times may result in improved efficacy ...

Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome are terms used to describe urinary tract pain that is not caused by urinary infection or bladder stones. Since there are no exclusive symptoms for this ...

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Cystitis is a bladder infection that happens when the bladder becomes inflamed. You may feel like you need to urinate frequently, even after you’ve emptied your bladder, among other symptoms. It can ...

The symptoms of interstitial cystitis (IC) /painful bladder syndrome closely resemble those of other conditions of the bladder that are treatable. Therefore, the first step in IC/PBS diagnosis in both ...

25-year-old Christina suffers from interstitial cystitis, a condition which makes her go to the toilet up to 70 times a day. 25-year-old Christina first began noticing her toilet habits were changing ...

Riverdale star Lili Reinhart shared that she was recently diagnosed with endometriosis during a laparoscopic surgery to get ...

Interstitial cystitis means inflammation in all the layers of the bladder. Doctors thought that only in this disease they would find inflammation in all the layers, but slowly they realized that other ...

This informational guide, part of POPSUGAR's Condition Center, lays out the realities of this health concern: what it is, what it can look like, and strategies that medical experts say are proven to ...