IC symptoms can reflect different overlapping patterns. Explore bladder-centric, pelvic-floor, systemic, hormonal, allergy-type and post-infection presentations.

Reviewed by H.Tamaklo (Registered Nurse) When your bladder feels like a UTI, but the test says otherwise If you have bladder pain, burning, urgency or that familiar “I need to wee again” feeling, it is completely understandable to think, “This must be a UTI.” For many people, that is the first place their mind goes. But what happens when the urine test comes back negative? Or antibiotics helped once, but now the symptoms keep returning? Or you feel like you are stuck in a loo

By IC Ally | Reviewed by H.Tamaklo (Registered Nurse) A gentle place to start Interstitial cystitis, also called bladder pain syndrome or IC/BPS, is a long-term bladder and pelvic pain condition. It can cause bladder pain, pressure, urinary urgency, urinary frequency, urethral burning, pelvic discomfort, and flares that may come and go. Unlike a typical UTI, IC symptoms can happen even when urine tests do not show infection. In simple terms, interstitial cystitis is a chronic

If you’ve been told “your urine test is clear” while your bladder feels like it’s on fire, you are not imagining it. You might already have read our basic overview: What is Interstitial Cystitis (IC) and Bladder Pain Syndrome? . That article explains what IC/BPS is and how it’s diagnosed. This post goes a step deeper. Here, we’ll look at what’s actually happening inside your body – in your bladder lining, pelvic floor and nervous system – so your symptoms start to make mor