10 Annoying Things About IC

IC is an annoying illness. It is annoying because we do not know exactly what causes it. It is annoying because the symptoms like to come and go as they please. It is annoying because there is not one official way to test for it.

Please enjoy this short Saturday morning list of 10 annoying things about IC.

IC is annoying because...

1. You can feel fine at 10:00 am and feel like going to the hospital at 10:00 pm or vice versa.

2. Just when you think you have discovered which foods make you flare and which foods don't a new culprit emerges.

3. It turns exercising into a guessing game. To flare or not to flare after a workout? That is the question.

4. You can finally be happy to have found a medicine that gets your frequency under control and then be saddened to learn that your grandmother's 85 year old BFF takes it too.

5. So many people have it, but no two people are treated for it exactly the same way.

6. Some doctors think it is real illness and other doctors are still living in the stone age.

7. It forces a young woman to be the only female and the only person under 70 in a urologist office.

8. You have to map out every rest stop on a highway on your smartphone in order to go on a road trip.

9. The medical community is only able to produce one "official" IC medication and then there is a shortage of it.

10. It has turned you from social coordinator into the "that chick who cancels plans at the last minute".

I hope this workout doesn't lead to a flare.