I suffer from a genetic kidney abnormality called cystinuria and can produce ten or twenty kidney stones in a month’s time. About a month before I was due to leave Japan I saw my urologist for what I thought was another stone. Same pain, same place. Nothing new. After passing so many stones and having ...
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is very common, especially for women. Lower urinary tract infections occur when bacteria enters the normally sterile urethra. For women, this condition is more common because their urethras are much shorter than a man’s, so the bacteria have a shorter distance to travel. Virtually all women will have at least ...
Chronic cystitis, with repeated bouts of frequent painful urination, can be annoying and disruptive or seriously debilitating. Many women have cystitis symptoms over and over again with no apparent permanent cure available. If you’re a sufferer, you already know there are lots of remedies available – some effective, some ineffective – but you may have ...
Interstitial Cystitis is a very painful, debilitating chronic illness that unfortunately, there is no cure and the cause cannot be found as of this time. I believe that Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, and IC Disease are all manifestations of the same illness. Affecting some of us with all three, while others may be only affected with ...
Interstitial Cystitis is a chronic bladder disorder that can be disabling for some of its patients. Interstitial Cystitis occurs when the lining of the bladder, or bladder wall, becomes irritated and inflamed. Causes of Interstitial Cystitis are still unknown but the illness is linked to other chronic immune dysfunction related illnesses. Some of these include ...
Peyronie’s disease (PD) is a rare connective tissue disorder, forms hardened tissue (fibrosis) in the penis causing pain, curvature (Beyond certain degree of curving of the penis is not considered normal) and distortion, usually during an erection. Effecting at least one to two percent of men and probably underestimated by approximately nine percent. Men affected ...
Four years ago in June a partial nephrectomy was performed on my right kidney, lower pole, at Aurora Medical Center, Lombardi Cancer Treatment Center, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Three months prior to this I had been followed by my Rheumatologist with routine lab, next sent on to my Internal Medicine Physician for more routine lab, because ...
According to the National Institutes of Health, about ten percent of Americans will experience kidney stones at least once in their life. More than half of kidney stone sufferers have a condition called Hypercalciuria, a condition where the body consumes too much calcium and the load can’t be handled by the kidneys. This excess calcium ...
Stage IV Kidney Cancer, INOPERABLE, Kidney Cancer. Stage IV Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma, to be exact. Those were the words that came from the Oncologist who my husband and I had been sent to after finding a swollen lymph node above my left collarbone. “I am very sorry. This is not good. It is the ...
