What are symptoms of IC?
Different IC patients may experience different symptoms. Patients with IC usually have urinary frequency/urgency or pain or both. Many people have only pain and no frequency, but most IC patients have all of the symptoms. There have been many reported cases when a person diagnosed with IC was not experiencing substantial pain. Frequency is the need to urinate more often than normal. Normally, the average person urinates no more than seven times a day, and does not have to get up at night to use the bathroom. An IC patient often has to urinate frequently both day and night. As frequency becomes more severe, it leads to urgency. Urgency to urinate is a common IC symptom. Some patients feel a constant urge that never goes away, even right after urinating. While others with IC urinate often, they do not necessarily feel the urge to go all the time. IC patients may have bladder pain that gets worse as the bladder fills. Some IC patients feel the pain in other areas besides the bladder. A pe
