cystitis

[funnywalk]

Ouch, I have just got cystitis which I havent had since I was in my twenties [40 + years ago]... can it be related to the drugs I am on weakening kidney function? [baclofen, gapabentin and warfarin]? Or is it a progression in some way of the spinal cord tumour? Anyone have any thoughts or experience of this? Thanks...

[lw]

These tumours can wreak havoc on our bladder and bowels as we lose sensation, muscle control etc. I've never had cystitis but I often get what I call 'borderline water infections'. Emptying my bladder is guesswork for me as I can only feel when I need to go when I'm absolutely busting. To avoid any problems I regularly go up to the toilet to check. Quite a few times I've forgotten to go at night and woken up with a really horrible dull pain in my lower stomach. On these occasions I try to flush any bacteria through by drinking plenty of fluids and as yet I haven't had any major disasters. Having said that, one time the pain was really severe and never went away until about 3pm in the afternoon. Just before my operation I completely lost the ability to urinate - this had been slowly building up over about 6 months and had started with me spending my hours lunch break at work trying to go.

I hope you are feeling a bit better now. Did you manage to get something from the chemist?

[landofconfusion]

If you scroll down to the forum entitled "Sexual Function, Bowel & Bladder Issues," you'll see that you're definitely not alone in having problems with an infection of the urinary tract along with your tumor. There definitely seems to be a correlation, I'm afraid. Hope you're feeling better by now!

[funnywalk]

Thanks, I feel fine now.