IC Can Hurt: Emotionally and Sexually

Interstitial Cystitis Association Podcasts

Download Dr. Melanie Barton’s Voice of American radio show exploring how IC affects so many areas and people in the patient’s life. Loved ones suffer not knowing how to help. Children of IC/pelvic pain patients grow up missing the normal activities that other families take for granted. Sports events, traveling, or shopping all require more energy and bathroom stops for the patient than the family can tolerate. The family learns to go without the person or to just all stay home. Intimacy between partners becomes strained or non-existent due to painful sex.
Tony Tyler new ICA Board member will tell us what it is like to have a dad with IC. Amy Stein, MPT, author of Heal Pelvic Pain will tell us how sexual pain can be lessened or alleviated through physical therapy.