The most exciting time of the year for the IC community, IC Awareness Month, begins September first as patients around the world unite to educate others about IC. We need to reach those patients who are suffering in silence and give them hope. We need to educate doctors who are still treating IC out of [...]
30 seconds - Restroom Retaliation Are you being punished for asking to use the restroom at work? Are you forced to hold it out of fear that you could lose your job? You have the right to use the restroom in any job. Patients with interstitial cystitis, prostatitis, incontinence, various cancers and even pregnant women [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2014 Patients Suffer As Employers Limit Restroom Access September is Interstitial Cystitis Awareness Month (Santa Rosa, CA) Have you been punished at work for asking to use the restroom? Employees of the WaterSaver Faucet Company face probing personal questions and termination if they use the restroom more than six minutes [...]
Social networking is vital to our success. You can educate more people with a simple post on your Facebook and blog pages than many of us can with a national press release. We ask you to please spread the word. Add A Daily Fact Every Day Every day during the month of September ad a [...]
Help Put Our IC Awareness Poster in Thousands of Doctor Offices One of the ways that we raise awareness about IC is through our IC Awareness Month Poster Campaign. When they are displayed in doctors offices, it reminds clinicians that IC is real and patients that they are not alone. The problem, of course, is [...]
Bring out your inner artist and create a poster for IC Awareness Month sharing your own interpretation of life with IC. Have you children make their own poster with your choice of medium: digital, watercolor, crayon, markers! Your choice! All posters will be added to our website and the winners will receive $100, $75 or [...]
Calling all IC artists! Social networking fanatics! The 2014 IC Awareness Month Facebook contest is officially underway. Last year, we had some fabulous entries and I know that this year will be even better. What we're looking for is an image, collage, drawing that shares your story of life with IC for use as a [...]
One excellent way to raise awareness for the issues that interstitial cystitis patients face is by asking your local City Council, County Board of Supervisors, State Legislators or US Senators & Congressmen to issue a proclamation on behalf of IC Awareness Month. We've made this super easy with a downloadable file you can print out [...]
IC Awareness Month is just three weeks away and we're adding the latest images! Our official 2014 campaign poster and Facebook icon was the winner of the 2013 IC Awareness Poster Contest. Artist and IC'er Jennifer Williams has contributed a fabulous and memorable image that works beautifully with this years them "For Years We Suffered [...]