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9th Annual NIH Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research

June 5, 2014

ICA recently attended the 9th Annual NIH Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research. The emphasis this year was on biological and psychological factors that contribute to chronic pain.…

Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do

April 10, 2014

In 1999, when I was 16 years old, I was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis. I suffered for two years from the onset of symptoms to diagnosis. As a little girl,…

Never Lose Hope

March 4, 2014

My name is Jackie Powe. I am a 25-year-old IC patient. When I was about 18, I began to notice a minor increase in my frequency of urination. About a…

Healing Through Chronic Pain

March 4, 2014

In the summer of 2007, I was working as a physical therapist/university instructor when IC/PBS reared up and pulled me out of my life. My main symptoms were bladder pain/inflammation,…