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Article: Health Zone: Dr Miriam Stoppard's Health Focus: Relief from real misery; Today: CHRONIC PELVIC PAIN.(Features)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2000
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ABOUT one in six women have chronic pelvic pain. Recent studies suggest that it may even be more common than low back pain.
It's hard to assess the cost, but in the UK about pounds 160 million a year is spent on medical investigations into chronic pelvic pain, and women with this condition may need several days off work every month.
There's much that can be done to relieve their misery, yet women often feel they have to fight to get anything done.
Most GPs do refer women with undiagnosed chronic pelvic pain to a gynaecologist but, even so, women ...