**I am going to be asking my gastro about this tomorrow morning but I wanted to see if any of you had any thoughts on this medication.**
I have bladder pain. I had a scope today and it showed that my bladder looks fine. The gastro had previously put me on Mybetriq for overactive bladder. That pill is working fine but it is not helping with the pain. He prescribed me 10mg of Vesicare and I have to still take the Mybetriq. He wants me to take it for two weeks. If it does not help with my pain, he says he will send me to a specialist. I am already thinking I probably have Interstitial Cystitis but I am not putting the cart before the horse. I do not have UC. I have LC. But when I read side effects that say that someone with UC should not take something, I sit up and take notice. It is in my medical history that I have colitis so it is not like he is in the dark. I am afraid to take it. I already have issues as it is with the LC but lately they have been better since I changed my diet. The thought of giving myself constipation does not make me happy.
Have any of you taken this? What are your thoughts with your gut and this pill? If this is not allowed, I understand and you can delete it. I am not really looking for medical advice because tomorrow I will ask for some. I am just concerned about what this could do to me.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts. I appreciate it.
Vesicare and LC
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heidiiiii5
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Hi Heidi,
I don't know anything about the medication unfortunately, but I can tell you from personal experience that MC commonly causes symptoms that mimic interstitial cystitis, especially in conjunction with a chronic magnesium deficiency. Many members here have experienced it. In my case when I have symptoms it usually means that there are traces of cross-contamination in my diet, or I'm not taking enough magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency often causes the same symptoms as diabetes, including frequent urinary urgency. Doctors never diagnose magnesium deficiency — instead they write a prescription to treat something else. If we don't figure it out for ourselves, we will never be properly diagnosed, because the test they use to measure magnesium in the blood is pretty much worthless. It will virtually always show "normal" results, despite the fact that at least 80% of the general population is magnesium deficient, and the rate is much higher among IBD patients (including MC patients).
Tex
I don't know anything about the medication unfortunately, but I can tell you from personal experience that MC commonly causes symptoms that mimic interstitial cystitis, especially in conjunction with a chronic magnesium deficiency. Many members here have experienced it. In my case when I have symptoms it usually means that there are traces of cross-contamination in my diet, or I'm not taking enough magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency often causes the same symptoms as diabetes, including frequent urinary urgency. Doctors never diagnose magnesium deficiency — instead they write a prescription to treat something else. If we don't figure it out for ourselves, we will never be properly diagnosed, because the test they use to measure magnesium in the blood is pretty much worthless. It will virtually always show "normal" results, despite the fact that at least 80% of the general population is magnesium deficient, and the rate is much higher among IBD patients (including MC patients).
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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heidiiiii5
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That's should be plenty magnesium. Together with the other supplements, if that doesn't promptly slow down the frequency and the urgency, you might actually have some kind of uncommon bladder problem going on. 
Surely they've done enough culture tests to rule out some sort of UTI.
Tex
Surely they've done enough culture tests to rule out some sort of UTI. Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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heidiiiii5
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No UTI or kidney infection at all. I do have some small amount of blood in my urine but they said it was a very very small amount. I do hope that the new supplement regimen helps with my gut issues. The bladder pain is new. My gastro did say that if they do not find anything at the Uro, that I should let him know when I come in for my visit on the 1st.