Urine may be cloudy and contain visible blood. What is most significant is that many women have recurrent bouts of cystitis and no underlying cause, including sexual intercourse, can be found. Recurrent cystitis is found in nuns. Interstitial Cystitis Cystitis is caused by an infectious organism. This distinguishes cystitis from another disease called interstitial cystitis.
Interstitial cystitis is more common in women than men.
Often a person who has it can tell you the exact moment the symptoms began. It is often characterized by severe superpubic pain which is relieved by urinating. However, time after time when these patients go to the doctor, bacteria are not grown from a culture of their urine . Interstitial cystitis is not widely recognized by most primary care physicians. The pain associated with this disease rivals that of cancer.