Hi everyone!

First of all sorry if my english is not very good. I am Spanish and I have been in this forum for nearly two years, but I never had the courage to write a post, though I think this is a very helpfull forum with a lot of good information and all your mesages are hopefull. I am not able to travel to EEUU at this moment , but if I do not improve as I did last year I wil have to considere this option.

I have a long story and I would not want to anoy you with all the details, so I will try so resume it as much as I can

 I started with IC symptoms after a UTI in december 2010 , so more than three years ago.

I could  not understand what was happening to me because I had never had a UTI before and was a very healthy woman (aparently) The thing is that at the same time of developing this UTI I also started with other healthy problems , vaginal and virus  infections mainly . My doctor only gave me antibiotic after antibiotic , thought the cultures were negative and I did not improve . Finaly I went to a very famous uro in my conuntry, he discovered a cyst in my bladder and decided to operate me in order to remove it , because he was not sure if it could be the cause of my symptoms.The Cyst was benignus, but after the operation all my symptoms werestill more  exhacerbatedand he diagnosed me with IC

I tried conventional IC treatments  for a  time, but they did not help me. My main symptoms have always been urgency, frecuency and pressure, and sometimes pelvic pain. I was diagnosed also with ureaplasma in my vagina , surely due to the big amount of antibiotics I had taken.  I took again a month of doxicicline to get rid of this infection. I took in total 13 tretaments of antibiotics in a year.BIG BIG  MISTAKE!

Time went on and I was desperate because  I started to develop also other symptoms like headaches, anal itching , back pain, all symptoms intestinal candida related (but I did not know at that moment)

Finaly after a year and a half strugling,  I found a naturist doctor  in my country , 700 km far from my city , but he saved my life He told me surely most of my symptoms were due to an intestinal candida overgrowth and after a pretreatment he  put me in treatment for the candida .After geting rid of the candida and with the help of other natural  suplements for my bladder I was a 80% better in only seven months . I then started to improve and was a 95 % better for the next 9 months until I did a very big mistake .

My big mistake, is that I picked up a throathAand lung infection and I did not call my naturist doctor (I now know how important is to call your naturist doctor when you are having other  health issues ) I went to the hospital because I could not breath and the urgent care doctor gave me antibiotic and cortiesteroids for 12 days. I had been feeeling so well with my baldder for so many months that I thought I was cured from my IC,and I was desesperated with the troath infection that had extended to my lungs  I called my naturist after having taking such a bomb for my health because I had still bretah problems and you cna imagine what he told me . I had done a very big mistake and I should have called him before takinng such a medicine . Well, the thing is that I was doing monthly  ihaluronic instills at the same time with my uro, I was finishing the instills course and with the last instill I picked up an infection which drove me out of remission. I know my body was totaly inbalanced after the steroids and the antibiotics and that was the reason why I picked up the infection. Again I was on holidays when I developed the infection and again I took antibioticas I did not now how to manage an infection with  naturally methods

Since october I have been trying to restore my body balance  and in the month of december I was improving very much , but again I picked up an intestinal virus in january  wich I think  has mesed my intestines  and I am trying to balance again.

I wanted to say hello to all of you, and to tell you that the natural route is the best, I am now sure and I have payed very much my ignorance about this. I encourage you to be patient as I amd sure all of you will be again in balance with your body and your symptoms will improve or disapear for always.

I just have a doubt , I am having  vaginal candida these days, and I am not sure if it is a way of cleanse or it could be that the intestinal virus has destroyed my flora and the candida has grothw again.I am feeling better in terms of my bladder these days, and I had the candida levels OK when I was tested in november so that is why I am not sure, Can you give me your opinion about this? I also had vaginal candida last year when I was in remission , and my bladder felt a 90% better so that is why I am not sure .

My best wishes and encourage to all of you.

Monic