Let's get informed

For class we are working on a campaign, or an awareness of something. I decided to make IC awareness my topic. I want to inform the students and staff at ICC about IC.  I think this is important since over 4 million people in this world have IC, just found out they have IC or don’t know they have IC. If you think about it 4 million people is a lot of people. Although most of these people are women, a few men also have this medical problem.

Finding out that you have IC may be a hard concept to accept simply because no one has really heard about it. So with this campaign I hope to be able to inform students around my school about IC. Many of the doctors that I have gone to, you have to give them your medical history, well when I tell them that I have IC they look at my funny. Simply because they don’t know what I am talking about. So I must explain to them what it is and the medications I am on and how they are suppose to help me.

Now I would think that if you were in the medical field that you would know about different diseases even if it’s not common. I hope that be informing students at my school about IC that students who are going into the medical field can keep an open ear as to what is going on, and maybe they will start doing research and become more aware of IC. So that in their future they might be able to help someone get the right treatment instead of looking at them and telling them that “it’s all in your head.”

This link has some interesting facts that would help peole understand more of my view. Number 8 is my favorite
http://www.icawareness.org/dailyfacts.html