I predict that IC, CP/CPPS, vulvodynia and maybe things like chronic orchialgia and epididymitis etc. get renamed as "Chronic Pelvic Pain" in the next few years. Already Johnson & Johnson (owners of Ortho-McNeil, makers of Elmiron) have bought the domain name CHRONICPELVICPAIN.COM (d'oh, wish I'd thought of that!). Now Jill Osborne of the ICN has bought CHRONICPELVICPAIN.ORG and .NET.
Quote from ICA Medical Advisory Board Co-Chair, Philip Hanno, MD
There is a tremendous push now to reclassify several disorders and lump them together as chronic pelvic pain. These include what has been referred to in the past as "prostatitis" in men, pelvic pain and dyspareunia (painful intercourse) in women, and interstitial cystitis.