Thanks Anna. With respect, I spent much of last year investigating this, going through eight urologists, six hospitals, umpteen exams and an exhaustive battery of tests. The FIRST thing I looked at was a UTI. Suffice it to say this isn’t my first rodeo. Nobody had a viable explanation. Nobody. Not after months and months and months of exams and tests. Ultimately what they finally called it, interstitial cystitis, which is doctor speak for we’re fucking clueless here I did more digging on my own. Interstitial cystitis is just one of some 33 chronic issues that those of us who have experienced significant trauma present. Please see Unlearn Your Pain. Out of the list of some 33 symptoms the book listed, I had 18, easily tracked to a garden variety of damned ugly events, the most recent of which in this case was an horrific breakup. Sometimes the issue has nothing to do with the body. And I would argue that increasingly it has everything to do with the heart and mind. I appreciate your input but believe me, I’m no fool. I spent unbelievable time and money looking into this, only to finally realize that there wasn’t a simple medical “fix.” Low temps make no difference. What’s wrong is has far more to do with the damage I’ve allowed others I foolishly cared about to do to my heart and soul. In this case, one very smart DO/Urologist suggested aloe vera gels. Of all the bullshit previous doctors had tried to fob off on me, this gave me the most relief. We are still truly decades away from understanding what shamans have always known: the heart-mind-body interaction. The docs were largely clueless. This was, as I note in the story, an issue of the heart.