Interstitial Cystitis

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About a week ago my friend sophia started getting weird pains in between her vagina, and feeling pressure/pain in her bladder area. The causes of getting Interstitial Cystitis is, having a chronic pain disorder, your skin and hair color (having fair skin and red hair have a greater risk), your age (around 30's), and during sex. 

So March 20th came by and we were in cheer practice sophia looked very dull and just not herself, i asked her what was wrong and she pulled me into our storage room and told me she has Interstitial Cystitis. When i heard the name i was confused because i didn't understand what she was trying to tell me so i told her to explain to me how she thinks she got it and if she is 100% sure she has it. I grabbed my coach and he came to speak to her, she was crying telling us she feels a strong pain in her bladder and in between her vagina. About more than 2000,000 women and men get this illness a year and sophia happened to be one of them. I went with her to the doctor after practice to go see if she can get it checked out and to see if there was a cure. She was scared but she understood that no matter what has to happen that she has her friends and family by her side. We went into the doctor they told us it can be cured in no time she was put on medications & had to go to physical therapies. It should take a couple weeks until her bladder is under control. Therefore sophia will be okay and this illness will get treated.