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Advice on pain? PSA? Antibiotics?

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roger76364
roger76364

i have been experiencing scrotum/groin pain for 3 months and have been to three urologists.The first two diagnosed prostatitis and prescribed Cipro, bactrim and finally doxy. DRE appears good and PSA is 1-1.5. All urine samples were negative.

Went to an older urologist today and he indicated no prostatitis due to the DRE not being painful along with the low PSA. His experience was with prostatitis the PSA is elevated. He went on to say if the antibiotics had not solved the issue in 3-4 weeks then it is not prostatitis. He recommended to get off the doxy.

Now I am really confused as to if I really have prostatitis.

appreciate your words of wisdom

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  • barney34567
    barney34567 roger76364

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    The pain you experienced sounds like an infection. Prostatitis is but one infection.

    Antibiotics are used to fight bacterial infections.

    If a urologist rules out prostatitis, you may have a UTI or some other infection.

    In either case, the PSA will fall with the use of antibiotics and anti inflammatories.

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