Hello! I have dealt with Interstitial Cystitis on and off for several years. I believe it is TMS. There is nothing structurally wrong except that I do have tight pelvic floor muscles. I saw I pelvic floor physical therapist a few years ago when I had a flair and she had me do stretches to loosen the muscles. The pain went away shortly after that and I stopped seeing her. I am currently in a flare and just found out that this could be TMS. Is it best to not do physical therapy and work on the TMS instead or should I do both? Thank you for your help!
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Interstitial Cystitis
- Thread starter yvettepfs
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Adam Coloretti (coach)
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In the absence of an infection, IC is often just a term given when the doctors don't know about TMS. It's like Fibromyalgia. You very likely don't have IC (whatever that actually means - I mean if you took a biopsy of the whole population I imagine everyone would have microscopic inflammation of the bladder to some degree, I'm assuming you aren't in the small group of cases where there is visible inflammation, we have inflammation everywhere in this day and age - it's often a scapegoat and in most cases a diagnosis of exclusion) you have TMS (the symptoms are just as real). I would dive head first into this work
I would read some of the seminal books (including The Mindbody Prescription by Dr Sarno) and if you relate then you'll likely make your own choice around leaving behind the physical therapy