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Adrianne says her chronic UTI has impacted her physically and mentally

ByElena BaileyHealth reporter
  • Published1 hour ago

"The impact goes far beyond what people understand - we're talking about pain, urgency, sleepless nights and missing out on your life," Adrianne tells her roughly 8,000 followers in a video on TikTok.

For nearly five years, Adrianne has lived with a chronic urinary tract infection (UTI) - a condition it took her two years to get a diagnosis for.

In that time she was wrongly told it was colon cancer, Crohn's disease or even that her partner must have been cheating and had given her a sexually transmitted infection.