Interstitial Cystitis (IC) Support Group
Interstitial Cystitis (IC) is a urinary bladder disease of unknown cause characterised by pelvic and intense bladder pain, urinary frequency (as often as every 10 minutes), and pain with urination. It is not unusual for patients to experience nocturia and pain with sexual intercourse. IC is also known as painful bladder syndrome (PBS), particularly outside of the USA.
I was in gymnastics for 10 years and competed for 5 years. I hear stories about people being in major accidents and then experiencing their first bladder symptoms but I have never had an event like this. So I was thinking about this and thinking about how many times I fell off the beam or bars or ran right into the vault and hit my bladder...it must have happened 1000s of times....could there be a relation? Other than falling on your rear, the abdominal area took the majority of the hits. It's strange to me that I didn't consider this sooner. Does anyone else have a similar experience? Could this have led to my IC today?
I'm not sure.. maybe there is a link betweeen falling hard on the beam and IC. Mine started when I started having intercourse. Sometimes I wonder if we had IC all along but it was in remission. I remember having reoccuring UTI's when I was younger and after that, I got better but 20 years later, it's worse. But there is a good possibly that gymnastics you were doing brought upon the IC. Are you still able to do gymnastics? I had to give up competitve running because the motion of running makes my symptoms worse.
Tension creates pelvic tension/clenching in our muscles in turn this cause nerve damage, low resistance to infections and well la you got IC, with other possible co-existing illness such as chronic UTI's, Yeast infections, IBS, Chronic pelvic pain.........pain during and or after sexual intercourse............