Log meals and flares in seconds. BladderCalm learns which foods calm your bladder and which ones do not, built on the 3-tier IC diet list that urologists already use.
Launching on iPhone this fall. No spam, one email when it is ready.
IC care starts with diet. The tools for it stopped in 2012.
Over 250 foods sorted into bladder friendly, try it and caution, following the tiered IC diet framework rather than a single yes or no.
A pain slider, urgency and frequency toggles, and one-tap symptom chips. Short enough to keep doing on the days it matters most.
Once you have a few weeks of logs, foods are ranked by how often they came before a flare. Your bladder, not the average bladder.
Guided trials that add one food back at a time and tell you whether it held, instead of leaving you to guess after a bad week.
Track instillations, pelvic floor physical therapy, oral medication and anything else, so you can see what changed when.
One page: flare frequency, pain trend, your top suspected foods and your treatment history. Something to hand over, not describe from memory.
Almost everyone with IC is told to watch their diet, handed a printed list, and left to work out the rest alone.
A single printed list treats every patient the same. Two people with the same diagnosis often cannot eat the same things, and the list has no way to know that.
The problem with static food listsFlares arrive hours after the meal that caused them, so memory is close to useless. Without something written down at the time, the pattern never becomes visible.
Why the lag mattersAppointments are short. Arriving with a pain trend and a ranked list of suspected foods changes the conversation from how are you feeling to here is what has been happening.
What patients ask for mostThese describe problems reported repeatedly in IC patient communities. They are not testimonials: BladderCalm has not launched, so nobody has used it yet.
No account required. Your food logs, flare records and photographs are stored on your device, not on our servers.
The questions people search most about IC. General wellness information, not medical advice.
The symptoms overlap almost completely, which is why many people are treated for recurrent UTIs first. The distinguishing pattern is urine cultures that keep coming back negative and antibiotics that do not resolve the symptoms. Only a clinician can make the distinction, usually a urologist.
Commonly reported triggers include coffee, tea, alcohol, carbonated drinks, citrus, tomato and spicy or acidic foods, alongside stress and for some people the menstrual cycle. Triggers are highly individual, which is why a generic avoid list works so poorly on its own.
Clinically and by exclusion. There is no single confirmatory test. Assessment covers characteristic bladder pain, pressure or discomfort with urgency and frequency persisting over months, urine testing to rule out infection, often a bladder diary, and sometimes cystoscopy to exclude other conditions.
Many people find specific foods reliably worsen symptoms, and identifying their own set helps. What does not work well is treating a published list as a set of rules, since the lists disagree with each other and most people tolerate things on them. The point of the three tiers is to sort foods by how often they cause trouble, then test the uncertain ones yourself.
The delay between eating and a flare is often several hours and sometimes the next day. That lag is long enough that memory attributes the flare to the wrong meal, which is the single biggest reason people struggle to identify their own triggers without a record.
Fever with urinary symptoms, flank or back pain, blood in the urine, or symptoms that come on suddenly and severely all point away from IC and need prompt assessment. Blood in the urine always warrants review rather than being folded into a chronic bladder condition.
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Launching on iPhone this fall.