Doctors told me the pain was all in my mind; outdated tests forcing women to live with agonising cystitis, but there is now hope! – The Express

Doctors told me the pain was all in my mind; outdated tests forcing women to live with agonising cystitis, but there is now hope! – The Express

When the searing pain hit, along with an agonising, burning sensation when she went to the toilet, Penaran Higgs knew she had developed another bout of cystitis. Yet on this occasion, over-the-counter remedies failed to clear it up and four days later, Pen, an animal behaviourist from London, ended up in A&E.

“I started feeling very ill indeed. I thought I was going to be sick,” she recalls.

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