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    Burning Questions

    Dec 02, 2019 3 minutes
    By Penny Carroll

    Real talk: three years ago I started getting urinary tract infections (UTIs) with period-like regularity. Every month, almost to the day, I’d wake up to an unrelenting urge to pee and that telltale burning pain. Antibiotics would clear things up quickly, then one day I got stuck: I went to the doctor, but the test for UTI came back clear. I was sent away with no meds and little sympathy. Meanwhile, the infections kept coming, morphing in frequency and intensity. In the last 12 months I’ve only had

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