About this episode

Andrea shares her journey of reclaiming her health from anxiety and bladder symptoms.

If you've been told your interstitial cystitis is something you just learn to manage — this episode is for you. Andrea spent two years cycling through doctors, prescriptions, the IC diet, and specialists. Her symptoms started as IC, then added vulvodynia, then joint pain. Different labels, same pattern: her nervous system running on constant high alert. What finally shifted things wasn't a new protocol. It was the moment she fully, 100% believed her mind was driving her symptoms. Not a little...

People in this episode

Host: Grace Secker

Guest: Andrea

Topics covered

• health anxiety
• bladder symptoms
• nervous system
• interstitial cystitis
• vulvodynia
• joint pain

Keywords

• health anxiety
• bladder symptoms
• interstitial cystitis
• vulvodynia
• joint pain
• nervous system

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Organizations: Heal with Grace, IC diet

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