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- Labour MP Dr Allison Gardner is urging an official definition of chronic urinary tract infections.
- Gardner says she has endured pain from recurrent infections for about ten years, starting at perimenopause.
- She described feeling like a drug user while desperately seeking pain relief.
- CUTIC reports over 1.6 million UK women suffer chronic lower urinary tract symptoms.
- Gardner says doctors sideline her because no consensus defines UTIs and limit antibiotic lengths.