"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.

What started as one UTI in 2022 became a debilitating cycle.

"It has completely stripped me of everything: being able to work properly, my relationships, my friendships, going out, being able to have a normal social life," says Adrianne, who works in digital marketing in London.

The 29-year-old was eventually diagnosed privately with a chronic UTI - something experts estimate could affect up to 1.7 million women in the UK , external .…