Many women endure recurring bladder pain, urinary urgency, and pelvic discomfort despite repeatedly negative urine cultures. The frustration of being told "there is no infection" while symptoms persist is often the hallmark of Bladder Pain Syndrome — also called Interstitial Cystitis — a chronic condition in which the bladder has become hypersensitive to normal filling and emptying.
The exact cause is incompletely understood but involves damage to the bladder's protective GAG layer, an oversensitised pelvic nervous system, and chronic low-grade inflammation. Women are affected up to five times more often than men and are frequently misdiagnosed with recurrent UTIs, leading to years of unnecessary antibiotics.
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WhatsAppLINEAt THE FIT CLINIC, accurate diagnosis is the starting point: a careful history, urinalysis, and sometimes cystoscopy. From there we combine dietary triggers identification, pelvic floor rehabilitation, bladder-coating medications, nerve-modulating therapies, and, in selected cases where vaginal tissue changes are contributing, MonaLisa Touch laser. A plan is built after an assessment, and it is reviewed as symptoms change. Results vary between individuals.