article_snippet: Flare-ups can be so bad that working is impossible, leading to lengthy periods off work.
article_snippet: Drugs and surgery can help ease symptoms, but there is no cure, and some sufferers find no cure so intolerable that some sufferers commit suicide.
article_snippet: the Pill now affects an estimated 100,000 people in Britain – one in every 650 people – although only a fraction of these are officially diagnosed.
article_snippet: Around one in 10,000 people are diagnosed every year with 115,000 current sufferers in the UK.
article_snippet: Sufferers will have periods of good health, remission, as well as times when Sufferers symptoms flare up or relapse.