Health News from Medical News Today: Long Nights: Sleep Eludes Women With Bladder Disorder

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Long Nights: Sleep Eludes Women With Bladder Disorder 1 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm The first study to document sleep problems in women with interstitial cystitis (IC), a painful and chronic bladder condition, has revealed the vast majority of sufferers are plagued by restless nights and ongoing sleep problems. In the May-June 2011 issue of Urologic Nursing, Dr. Alis Kotler Panzera and her Philadelphia associates found 100% of the 407 study participants reported poor sleep, caused mainly by the need to urinate or from pain associated with IC. For the women, the sleepless nights cause daytime fatigue, loss of productivity, depression and an overall drop in quality of life... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.