Cystoscopy

If you don't know what a cystoscopy is, you can click on it and it will bring you to its Wikipedia page. I will tell you that they say it won't hurt. It does hurt and I've fully been in pain for the rest of the day. And it really hurts to pee. It's starting to fade though and I'll be fine by morning.

What did this scope find? It found that there's nothing wrong physically – there is no endo INSIDE the bladder, it is in the right position, etc. It looks how it's supposed to. Good news.

Bad news? The doctor diagnosed me with a trial run of overactive bladder. Trial run? Yep…she doesn't actually 100 percent think it's overactive bladder, but she wants to make sure first. How? I'm going on a 6-week trial of a drug called Ditropan to try and stop the amount I have to go the bathroom. If it works, and the pain, etc. stops too, then it IS overactive bladder. If not?

Interstitial cystitis and a trip back to the endo doctor. She feels like this is more likely, but since the treatment is more complicated, we thought we'd try the easy route first. Makes sense to me. There's no other real way to distinguish between the two because I don't necessarily have clear-cut symptoms. IC is often hand in hand with endometriosis so hence the trip back to the endo doctor if this is the case. There is good potential for endo to be outside the bladder/surrounding the kidneys, hence causing pain.

So. Where are we? Well, I have to try out the prescription and go back to Dr. Kripps in 6 weeks. I'm going to hope that it's really just overactive bladder, because it's much easier to deal with – just 1 pill twice a day. IC is a lot more complicated involving physio, other drugs, and major diet changes.

The end.
kortney elise xoxo