IC Optimist - Spring 10 Edition BY EMAIL - Interstitial Cystitis Network Mail Order Division

In this issue:

(1) ICN Editorial: If Nothing Ever Changed There'd Be No Butterflies - ICN Founder Jill Osborne challenges you to consider making a change in your diet, treatments or medical care providers if you haven't made the progress that you'd like to see. It's Spring after all and there's no better opportunity to make change than today.

(2) A Natural Approach To The Treatment of IC: An Interview with Diana Brady - Author of the new book IC Naturally: A Natural Remedy Approach to the Treatment of IC, Diana Brady CNC shares two decades worth of knowledge and insight into interstitial cystitis and the use of various natural remedies.

(3) Chronic Pelvic Pain: Connecting The Dots - Susan Bilheimer, author of Secret Suffering: How Women's Sexual and Pelvic Pain Affects Their Relationships, shares insight into chronic pelvic pain, what contributes to it and how it can and should be treated compassionately and early.

(4) Consumer Alert: Do You Know Where Your DMSO is Coming From? - Consumer safety continues to be an important priority for the ICN and, in this story, we share one patients tragic encounter with "compounded" DMSO rather than the RIMSO-50 provided by the pharmaceutical company. This story demonstrates that despite the frustration with the FDA, they do provide essential quality control reviews that can protect patients from unsafe medication.

(5) The Latest IC Research - Research continues to progress as we share two new promising research studies as well as another which reveals that primary care providers are still fairly uninformed about IC. Can you believe that 29% still may think that IC has a psychological origin? Ridiculous!

(6) Clinical Trial Announcements - We share information on a new bladder pain study that will soon be world wide. Research centers are currently open in the USA and Canada.

(7) New Women's Urology Center Opens - IC patients in the Midwest have a new, dynamic health care facility now open at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Michigan led, of course, by the dynamic IC researcher and clinician Dr. Ken Peters.

(8) Self-Help Tip of the Month: Don't Be Shy About Your Symptoms - If you find yourself getting tongue tied when trying to talk with your doctor about your bladder or bowel, take heart! You are not alone. This article shares some strategies that can help you during your next doctors appointment

(9) How Does Your Garden Grow - Julie Beyer RD, author of the Confident Choices IC and diet books, shares ideas on creating an IC friendly garden that will not only soothe your spirit but provide IC friendly veggies as well!

(10) Soy and IC: Three Patient Stories - Are you confused about whether you can or should eat soy?? Are some soy products safer than others?? Bev Laumann, author of A Taste of the Good Life: A Cookbook For An IC Diet shares a wealth of information on soy, the various soy products and the issue of hormones. If you love soy, this is a great article to read.

28 pages
Publisher: Interstitial Cystitis Network

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