Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS) is a poorly understood chronic pain condition. For many years it was thought to be an inflammatory condition of the bladder wall, but new research over the past 10 years indicates that this isn’t necessarily so.

For many reasons, including that urologic tests often produced negative results and the vast majority of people with IC/PBS are women, patients in the past were too often told that they had an oversensitive bladder or that the symptoms were “all in their heads.” This … More