Answer | Interstitial Cystitis (IC) means cystitis, or inflammation, in the bladder wall. In this case, however, the inflammation does not appear to come from an invasion of bacteria. Its cause is unkown and because symptoms vary so much from person to person, and response to treatment is so unpredicatable, doctors specializing in the treatment of IC are beginning to consider it as a complex system of symptomatology with a number of possible causes.
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