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Is it easy to find a partner and/or maintain relationship when you have Interstitial Cystitis?
Relationships and Interstitial Cystitis: real patients share how diagnosis affected dating and partnership.
The best thing is to be open and honest with the person. It is not hard to find someone, but they have to be caring and willing to take things slow. You will be a bit more tender in your crotch, so dates like bike riding or long car rides will require more planning for stops. Not impossible, but just more planning. Also, there will be times that plans will have to be cancelled and so if you have a partner who cannot handle last minute change, that may be an issue.
Intimacy can be tough but go slow, take pain medicine beforehand if you need, use a warm compress afterwards and a warm shower, plenty of snuggles and listen to your body.
Intimacy can be tough but go slow, take pain medicine beforehand if you need, use a warm compress afterwards and a warm shower, plenty of snuggles and listen to your body.
Posted Jun 10, 2018 by SaraLouise 2500
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If you can be couple took them 3 years based what I have not been able is to have a child I feel afraid that it hurts me a lot because I have not stopped my medication
Posted Jul 17, 2017 by Dany 2005
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It is not.
The CI in my case makes me prefer to be at home, lying down whenever I can.
Makes Me avoid travel, social situations and physical activities.
Produces chronic fatigue, in my case affect the quality of sleep so most of the times I prefer to relax and it makes sharing the life partner is very difficult.
Depression tends to occur and this makes the motivation go down and it is difficult to bring the rhythm to the couple.
The CI in my case makes me prefer to be at home, lying down whenever I can.
Makes Me avoid travel, social situations and physical activities.
Produces chronic fatigue, in my case affect the quality of sleep so most of the times I prefer to relax and it makes sharing the life partner is very difficult.
Depression tends to occur and this makes the motivation go down and it is difficult to bring the rhythm to the couple.
Posted Sep 2, 2017 by Ana 3358
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It is not difficult but you have to understand your disease and to know and respect that when it hurts you don't feel like having sex.
Posted Nov 23, 2017 by LPilar 2500
