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Referred to a Urologist...(Maybe TMI??)
Long story short, I have had five bladder episodes since September. Each time I wake up in the early hours of the morning with the desperate need to go to the bathroom, and then I end up stuck in the bathroom the first half of the day because I have to go to the bathroom every five seconds. It's pretty miserably painful. 
The following few days aren't as intense, but I do have a lot of urgency.
My primary care doctor reviewed all of the past UA's I've had and they all showed trace blood, with WBCs and RBCs, and sometimes with leukocytes and sometimes without.
Anyways, her best guess is chronic/recurrent kidney stones, or interstitial cystitis. The other possibility is a low-grade chronic kidney infection, though this is not the likely cause since I've tried to combat these episodes with and without antibiotics, and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
So now I'm just waiting to find out when I can get in to the urologist.
So I don't know what the urologist can or will do, but at least I'm making a little progress in figuring out what's wrong with me...
Re: Referred to a Urologist...(Maybe TMI??)
I'm sorry you are going through this!
I am glad that you are finally going to start getting answers though!
I hope you get answers soon!
FWIW- My doc thinks I have interstitial cystitis as well because I get UTI/bladder infection symptoms with no infection but the uristat meds help. I haven't been tested. Apparently chronic disorders like this, irritab
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I have IC. when it flares bad the urologist can put a cath in and inject numby stuff to calm it down. i was also on about 4 different meds but you prob wont be able to do that.
there is an ic website that talks about diet and triggers i sug