can prostatitis be cured with medication

Like you, I have dealt with prostatitis for many years, spoken to now 5 different urologists, my internist and many more men like us.

Following is a synopsis of my understanding of this issue and what I've tried:

There are two basic types, bacterial and non-bacterial. If you have bacterial and it is diagnosed properly by culture and an antibiotic for that bacteria used for sufficient time to kill all traces of the bacteria, then one would be 'cured' - until the next infection or you develop chronic non-bacterial prostatitis, which is what I and most men have (80%+ from what I have read).

Unfortunately, the causes for non-bacterial can be varied and difficult/impossible to determine. Diet, allergies, injury, exercise - pretty much anything that irritates the prostate or surrounding area and causes the inflammation. I don't know that this type can be completely 'cured', simply managed.

The two things so far that have helped me:

Finasteride - took it for 4 months before the side effects were worse than the prostatitis. BUT - the benefits (for the most part) remain. This drug removed the feeling that I was sitting on a golf ball.

Excluded as much caffeine from my diet as possible and stopped consuming alcohol. This helped reduce the frequency and urgency issues.

I still deal with low flow and delay in starting urination after sleeping or sitting for more than 1 hour (the longer I sit, the longer it takes to start). Nothing I have done/taken has helped this very much. The alpha blockers did help a little with the delay, but the side effects for me were worse than the symptom.

We are all different and what helps one may not help another, so I continue to research, modify my diet looking for other triggers and even tried several supplements (though I am a supplement skeptic - I've still tried several, without any success).

Good luck and if you (or anyone) has success with something, please pass it along.

According to Larry Clapp, it can be done.  I remember reading something about that in his book.  "Curing Prostate Cancer in 90 Days"  I am not sure about the title of the book...it has been many years, since I've read it.  Good luck!

I was just diagnosed with prostatitis about a month ago. I was referred to a physical therapist who specializes in pelvic floor issues, as it appears a lot of cases of chronic, non-bacterial prostatitis - the kind I had - aren't actually prostate issues but is due to referred pain from pelvic floor issues.

Physical therapist found my hips were misaligned (in fact, my right leg had several reduced rotation) and a few exercises helped fix that. I experienced two weeks of almost near relief from symptoms (burning in urethra and penis, tailbone/rectal pressure/pain, intermittent urination, frequent voiding).

Then last week, I went hiking and carried too much weight. Ended up messing up my back muscles, which pulled my hip back out of alignment (amazingly, my right leg lost 20 degrees in rotation in just a day, as I became misaligned again). Symptoms immediately returned, and I'm working on getting things back to where they were.

Each case is unique, but the near-instant link between muscular-skeletal issues and my symptoms have me convinced that many cases of prostatitis have nothing to do with bacteria and are simply muscular issues. 

So, maybe you could give physical therapy a try, with someone who specializes in male pelvic floor pain? It seems to be working for me, and I'm confident it'll help me recover completely, even if my hiking adventures have caused my recovery to take a bit longer.

"Can prostatitis be cured with medication?"  If it's bacterial, then more often than not, it can be cured.  Your physician can determine the causative effect(s) on smear and staining.  If it's viral, the situation becomes trickier.  Right now, there is research being conducted into herpes simplex viral protein 16, as a culpabable link, but the research is inconclusive at this point.  I'm going to offer a bit of unconventional advice.  You may want to consider fasting, if you're overweight - especially if you're obese.  I, myself, entered the hospital recently for routine surgery.  I had fasted on water alone for a total of six consecutive days, after being discharged.  Simply wanted to rid my system of the analgesics, anesthetics, and antibiotics they had given me while in the hospital.  Have had prostatitis for ten years.  At the end of the fourth day of fasting, prostatitis symptoms completely resolved.  Coincidence?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  What do you have to lose, besides a few unwanted pounds, and nagging prostatitis. Hope this helps.

It can be cured but one needs to decrease sexual activities or stop it during the treatment. Your prostatitis cannot be cured because you keep having sex and ejaculation. Sexual activity irriates one's prostate and prostatitis most time occures after excessive sex and ejaculation. If you take antibotics such as Doxycycline or Karalex and Rapaflo and stop sex for three months, your prostatitis will likely be cured. 

Hows everybody on this post doing? It's a hard thing to handle, this prostatitis. isn't it?

   Steve

I*'m going to fight this Disease and make the medical community Aware of the Need fo a Cure !!!