A 21-year-old woman who suffers from a rare urinary retention condition that causes debilitating pain and repeated infections has been told that only costly private treatment could prevent her from needing her bladder removed.
Since February 2024, Caris Gibson, from Oxfordshire, has been battling severe symptoms of Fowler’s Syndrome – a rare, chronic condition that predominantly affects women in their 20s and 30s, characterised by a failure of the urethral sphincter to relax.
