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A highly disabling disease, the main connotation of which is chronic pain. Intense pelvic pain, which is accompanied by alterations in urinary functions, often including intestinal ones, and makes sexual intercourse difficult. A rare disease – chronic interstitial cystitis – and it is talked about because the actress Francesca Neri has told of suffering from it for years, and of the difficult coexistence with this disease that mainly affects women, in a ratio of 7 to 1.
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