Finally found the cause of my Prostatitis

His, yes, not sure what strain it is yet, I was told its Staphylococcus and I do have prostatitis under examination my prostate is swollen "not normal".  I took two weeks of Cipro and did not phase it and it's cronic so the doctor suggested this to "knock it out".   I am in Tampa FL. 

Jusf learned it's Staphylococcus epidermidis.  I am going to an infectious disease clinic tomorrow to figure out the best way to get rid of it.  Could be IV and may not be, we will see...

  Hi, Michael,

I was curious because I also had a staf infection that showed up both with my urine culture and semend culture. But it wasn't epidermidis. With both these kinds of staph infections, they are not always treated, but it depends on how symptomatic you are. I think it makes sense to get input from an infectious disease doctor. On one hand you don't want to neglect things, but on the other you don't want to take a long course of IV antbiotics unecessarily, and potentially where it might not even help with your symptons. 

In my case, I did treat, but it was as much my decision as the doctors. If I had been self cathing at that point, I would not have treated and looked at the staph more as benign colonization, but since I had basically stopped self catherization, I figured it might make sense to clean things up. 

Jim

Good point,  I am a 44 yr healthy male with a great sex life. My urinary track hurts all day, my penis has numbness from time to time and it's been effecting my life for 7 months.  I did extensive pelvic floor PT and I did have a lot of pelvic floor tension making some of my symptoms go away but at the end of the day, I needed to find out why my prostate was swollen.  I have had this about 7x's over the last 10 years, so I think this has been a chronic condition that has come and gone.  Again, this was found in the semen and not the urine culture that had prostate fluid in it.  The staph is a "mild" form (whatever that means).  So I think I had a pevlic issue because of the tension and my hips were out of alignment.  Between the pelvic PT, Chiropractor and the URO the last step is the infectious desease clinic to finish this off once and for all.... I hope.  I do disagree that 90% of all prostatitis is non-bacterial.   Just my thought.

@michael...I do disagree that 90% of all prostatitis is non-bacterial.   

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That is the big debate, isn't it. But it does sound like you've been approaching this correctly, with caution. Because no guarantee that getting rid of that staph will get rid of your symptons, but on the other hand it could. 

Jim

My hips are no straight, they we twisted and crooked, I have no more pelvic floor tension after 90 days of PT 3xs a week getting a finger up my rear (she was nice about it) 2 trips to the uro, two urine samples and a semon sample. Now I will have 28 days of antibiotics fed through an iV. Oh and 4 treatments of Gainswave hi sound waves on my pelvic floor and penis to stimulate blood flow when my pelvic floor was in knots . ... I am at the end of my rope.

But you're consulting with the infectious disease doc first before the IV antibiotics, right? I know it's easy to say be patient, but prostatitis often does get sorted out. 7 months in "prostatitis time" isn't anything near a record. The body needs time to heal.

Jim

Yea the u ro refered me to the infectious disease doctor to address the staph in the semon test. It is...a process and I started with pelvic tension, then blood flow then chiropractor and now antibiotics but only after tests for pelvic tension, x raysif my pelvis and urine and semon tests. I am using the very best docters and with all that I am still suffering but I can see the light finally.

Update, went to the infectious disease and they said I did need the IV antibiotics for the type of staph and he started me on a month of doxycycline. He sent the sample out for a lab that does a new type of lab culture called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). I am waiting on the urine DNA that will tell me what else I have and what resistance it may have to what antibiotics. Normal cultures only find 1% of the bacteria possible which may be why they tell you that  "95%" of all prostatitis is non-bacterial

Hi Michael - Just wondering if you had your semen tested via culture, or using the DNA sequencing sort of testing..? Cheers

no, normal culture on the semon. Positive for staph on the first, 4 weeks of leviquin then negitive on the second.

Glenn,

Short of a diagnosis of cancer, it may be nigh impossible to get a urologist to perform a prostatectomy for CP.  Even in the case of very enlarged prostate (BPH) where no PCa presents, a radical prostatectomy is not possible. 

A partial prostatectomy to remove the enlarged lobe to alleviate urine retention in the case of BPH is an option.

I would not know how partial removal of the gland would benefit someone suffering from CP.

If you ask your uro please update us.

Thanks Glenn.

Michael

Glenn, I explored this option with 3 Urologists as I have Prostatitis and also on Active Surveillance with Prostate Cancer. They said they could justify removing the Prostate as I had Cancer but would not recommend it.  I already have Incontinence and E/D so I did not think I could be any worse but they said damage to nerves could be a problem.  What I could not understand was how many people in percentage terms suffer after the many Prostates that are removed.

David