Endo, Take 2
After my first lap surgery for Endo ( click here if you haven't read about it already, as I'll reference the leadup here) , I got 4 years with minimal issues. Around that 4th year, I began to get frequent UTIs (or so I thought), and sex was becoming something I feared because I would have a flare-up after, no matter how much we cleaned before and after. I went to a urologist who was very dismissive, but did recommend taking D-Mannose, which could ease the symptoms of frequency and urgency, which made it feel like a UTI, even though both at-home tests and lab testing came back positive for leukocytes and negative for nitrites. They scoped me and found that I did have a hypertonic pelvic floor, but didn't find any Hunner's lesions, which was the point at which this particular doctor dismissed my research (yep, back to Dr. Google) about me possibly having Interstitial Cystitis. Interstitial Cystitis (IC), also known as Painful Bladder Syndrome, is "characterized by ch...
