Healing Update on my Chronic UTI & Interstitial Cystitis

My TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) doctor said it was the first time he has seen me crack such a big smile. Lately, I've been smiles all week. Even though I still can't walk due to intense bladder pain, I've come a long way since February 20, 2018. From that day to early May, I was battling one long crazy UTI with many different antibiotics but 4 GPs and 1 urologist said no infection was found in any of my urine samples. I was literally chained to the toilet and could never leave the home! I was so adamant that I did have a UTI but for some reason, standard urine tests weren't detecting it. By June, I got severe bladder pain out of nowhere and found myself disabled and in a wheelchair. In June and July, I tested my urine via DNA next generation sequencing which found that I do indeed have an infection in my bladder! INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS WAS RULED OUT. Antibiotics so far haven't worked for me, so I healed some of my symptoms through natural healing. I don't take any urology medications like Elmiron or bladder pain meds or pharmaceutical meds. I don't take Prelief or Cystoplus or Cysto Renew or anything like that. I've gotten a lot of recommendations on those from other IC patients, but I'm trying not to get my body to rely on artificial medication. Everything I'm doing so far is natural (except for the many trials of antibiotics which have all failed).

Here is my healing progress so far:

• Urinary burning and stinging: Healed 100% 

• Urethra burning: Healed 100%

• Urine flow and length of stream: Healed at 70% - 80% (the flow is almost like normal)

• Urinary frequency: I went from going 25 times/day to now 7-9 times per day. Ideally I hope to recover to going 5 - 7 times per day.

• Severe bladder pain came out of nowhere in mid-June 2018, TCM is knocking it down slowly

I can feel recovery on the horizon. I just need to keep up my IC diet, pelvic physio, TCM, D-Mannose, DNA next generation sequencing re-testing, and continue seeking more methods to see if I can accelerate the healing. You can see all my previous methods in my old posts on what worked for me and what didn't. The biggest game changer was switching to an alkaline raw vegan diet for a few months, and then slowly incorporating healthy organic cooked and raw foods back in. You can see my IC diet on my Instagram. Pelvic physiotherapy and TCM made a huge difference in the urinary frequency. TCM has been a huge success in lowering my bladder pain from "excruciating mind-blowing" to just "severe" now. I hope to get it down to "bearable" in the next few months.