Do People with Interstitial Cystitis Need to Avoid Vitamin C?

I have noticed that there is a lot of confusion among interstitial cystitis sufferers about vitamin C and whether or not it should be avoided.  In this month’s blog post, I hope to briefly clear up some of that confusion! Those of you who have been with Tiny Pioneer from the beginning might remember that my first ever post on Tiny’s Blog was about liposomal vitamin C.  At the time, liposomal supplements were still quite new and I had been curious to investigate whether liposomal ascorbic acid was any more bladder friendly than the ordinary stuff.  One very painful bout of cystitis later, I was able to conclude that no, it is not!  Although that first post did touch a little on different types of vitamin C, it did not explicitly answer the question that I am asked on a fairly regular basis:  “Do I need to avoid vitamin C if…