Dear all,

Dear IC patients!
I have IC for more than one and half a year and for one year I have been feeling increasing pain in my bladder. Day and night without any relief.
I'm a patient of  Dr. Brizman from Hungary, Europe. I started the theraphy, I have been doing the protocol since last September, unfortunately, without any results.While the dissertation is available again, we decided to purchase it, but since it's very expensive to get the package to Europe (duty plus Fedex costs an extra $200). I would like to ask for your help.

Nice article on Dr. Mercola site (you need to sign up)

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/03/18/mcbride-an...

To watch a Ted talk video on bacteria by Bonnie Bassler:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communic...

Dear all,

Does anyone know why the protocol might not work as well for some as for others? Or, to put another way, does the protocol work eventually for everyone or are some not successful ever? As far as I can tell, everyone will be successful eventually - it's just the time factor that is the problem sometimes. Is this a correct assumption? 

Are these something we should be avoiding, does anyone know?  I see warnings on labels that products contain or are derived from sulphites but couldn't remember if this is something we should avoid like the plague..

So I had my call with Dr. B last Wednesday and she asked that I start Bifido in about a week as I flared due to me eating potato chips (yeah, me and those pesky chips again, I will never learn!). 

Hi ladies,

I am not sure which forum this should go in but I thought it was neat. I recently read an article about unexpected healing from cancer. These are patients who were not responding to conventional treatments but somehow found remission or healing. The author isolated several very strong themes or beliefs from 70 patients that the patients and their healers believed contributed to their unexpected healing.

So... some things have been happening that I wanted to post about.

Three weeks ago I gave a leave of absence to work because I couldn't deal with what was going on in my body and the stress of work at the same time. While I was on my leave, I actually considered quitting my current job and getting a new one. But I decided that getting a new job would be way more stressful then my current one. It would just be more time and energy that I just don't have right now.

Well- I think I am going to try cutting out rice. I already don't do spelt so this will be really tough for me. I am just not moving along the way we had hoped and so I need to try and see if this helps.

I need some starch ideas - i guess all potato- for breakfast especially because I really love my rice toast with eggs in the am.

Any  help would be appreciated. I am pretty bummed. I was hoping I could add almonds or something crunchy but that was nixed.