I need help dealing with my anxiety. The past two years have been too much stress on my body and on top of the IC I don't know how to deal with it all. I need any stress mangament ideas please. I haven't left my house more then 6 times in 7 months excpet for some light walking in my neiberhood.

I am so tired that I can't even seem to walk that much. i just have no energy.

What brands of breads do you all buy. The whole foods stoped carring pacific bakery and I can't seem to find anything. The min order is 20 + 20 shipping and I am not even sure I will tolerate it. I don't know why I used to tolerate more things now I seem to tolerate less so discoraging. With the holliday coming and my birthday I am getting very deperssed. I need ideas

Why doesn't my food give me energy? It seems like I just eat so i can live and because I am hungry. There is no enjoyment I actually hate it and resent people who have joy from there food. I used to be a great cook and take so much pride in it. I still try to put love into my food but I don't seem to recive anything back no matter what i do.

Does anyone have any suggestions for cold remedies which are bladder friendly?

Does anyone have any remedies for vaginal dryness. I don't know if it's caused by thrush or pre-menopause.

I'm finding it hard to have 50% veggies at every meal (on List 1) so I thought I would ask for any tips and share mine. I found a recipe for Cucumber Soup from Delia Smith (Brit cookery writer) which really helps me eat lots of cucumber, lettuce and celery in a very tasty format. It can be served chilled as well but living in Britain where it is cold a lot of the time and our winter is upon us now it is really great to have it hot. See recipe under Soups.

Lately I have been exposed to a lot of theories about underwire bras being really bad for the female breast tissues. Some of the literature on this topic suggests removing the wire and replacing with plastic -- like a knitting needle bent in the same shape as the wire (cresant shape). But I have also read that even the plastic in the bra causes energy blockage in breast tissue -- so its best then to wear bras without underwire and underplastic.
Has anyone else read/heard about this? What are we to do -- Matia, have you any suggestions? Underwire or not??
Thanks. Edwena

I've seen some book on the ICA website and wonder if anyone can recommend whether they are worth buying? Titles include: 'The Many Faces of IC', 'You Don't LOOK sick, Living Well with Invisible Chronic Illness', 'Patient to Patient: Managing Interstitial Cystitis and Overlapping Conditions' and 'A Delicate Balance - Living Successfully with Chronic Illness' or are there any other IC books people would recommend?

Hello,

Here's a story for those of you with cats. In July one of my cats suddenly started regurgitating everything he ate and drank. I thought he had gotten into my neighbors garbage and it would pass but it went on for 1 week with me getting more and more worried as time went by. He seemed fine except that he could not eat or drink without it coming right back up. All sorts of tests were done until finally I took him to a specialist and they came back with the diagnosis of IBD. Recommended treatment was lifelong steroids.