Finally found the cause of my Prostatitis
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After my 2nd test of just providing a semen sample, Staphylococcus was found to be my problem causing prostatitis. This is good news to me since I have been dealing with this for 7 months and on and off for years. I was on 2 weeks of Cipro and since it did not work and I am allergic to shell fish so Bactrim will not work, the doctor would like to administer the antibiotics via poss IV ABX, every day for 28 days. The clinic is close by me thank God and will be in an out in an hour each day. Does anyone have experience with this procedure for Bacterial Prostatitis?
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uncklefester michael82149
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michael82149 uncklefester
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david_94301 michael82149
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Supertractorman michael82149
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Michael, Four months ago I had to attend hospital for 28 days to receive ERTAPENEM by IV. They use a long needle which stays in place for the 28 days, and you cannot have many of the A/B's which are Intravenous away from hospital due to the high risks of certain A/B's and any problems have to be rectified immediately and the trained Nurses check with you daily on your visit to see everything is OK plus take blood tests as well.
Last Sunday I have started getting problems again with smelly urine and pain urinating so the problem may be coming back, but had a sample of urine taken today which will go for culture. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE DIPSTICK TEST OFTEN DOES NOT SHOW PROSTATITIS INFECTIONS I HAVE NOW LEARNED, SO CHECK WITH YOUR Dr IF YOU HAVE THIS PROBLEM TO ENSURE SAMPLE IS CULTURED.
David
michael82149 Supertractorman
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michael82149
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Update, went to Infectious disease and they said I did need the IV antibotics for this type of staff and he started me on a month of doxycycline. I am waiting on the urine DNA that will tell me what else I have and what resisitant it may have to what antiboitics. For those with prostatitis this test is a must! Normal culter only find 1% of the bacteria possible which is why "95% of all prostatitis is non-bacterial" It's not bacterial until this lab says so... PERIOUD!
Waffalobill michael82149
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Most hospitals and docs haven't changed the way they grow cultures. Some even don't take them correctly. Desease doc told me , esp the super bugs, have to be grown on a blood clot. And it has to be allowed to grow atleast 3 days. Some docs see it going staph and just treat it that way. End it in 2 days. My culture was 2 days in and uro knew it was going staph. Put new in the hospital. Next morning I was moved. It went staph in 2 days. Went MRSA the third day. I was already on cipro I think the doc knew it wasn't a simple UTI or just staph. He started me on the intense antibiotics. Infectious desease doc adjusted dose 12 hours later after new blood work.
MichaelVM7 michael82149
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Michael
Can you please list all your symptoms when you had your bout with prostatitis?
How do they differ than those for an enlarged prostate such as frequent ruination, low back pain, pain in scrotum, burning between scrotum and anus, weak stream, nighttime urination?
I'm thinking of asking my Uro to run a culture but that requires a semen sample, correct?
It seems like a delicate topic to bring up with my doctor but then again besides a large prostate I might have an undiagnosed chronic infection.
Thanks for your help,
Michael
michael82149 MichaelVM7
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Hi
I had penal shrinkage and really bad pelvic floor tension. I had horrible urinary PAIN all day and had to sit on a heating pad or ice pack all day just to function. I was taking 3200mg of ibuprofen a day just to cut the edge for the last seven months. Did not hurt when I urinate or ejaculate but that did aggregate my already inflamed urithra. I had a urine sample just after my uro milked my prostate. Came back negative on WBC and growth. Took Cipro for 2 weeks and didn't help. Called the uro and had me do a semen sample and sent another urine sample off for a deep microbial dna annalasis. Semen came back positive for Staph e. And started me on doxe for 30 days. My urine results will be in early this week and hope and pray it validates the semen culture and will most likely identify some others. The results will also tell the doctor what antibiotic the bacteria is resistant too and what I need to be taking to kill the unique dna of the crap in my prostate. My urine Ph is 5.5 such is pretty acidic so as of today I am changing my diet and drinking baking soda to elivate may ph so my urine doesn't aggregate my urithra.... man this SUCKS but think I got this on its heals finally.
michael82149
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jimjames michael82149
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Hi Michael, staph enterococci is not that uncommon. I cultured positive for it last year both in my urine and semen, and it was probably not hospital aquired.
I cleared things up with a three week course of Nitrofurantoin. You might want to speak to your urologist about Nitrofurantoin instead of Levaquin.
Levaquin is a quinolone and many don't think it should be used as a first line antibiotic because of its side effect profile. I stopped quinolones because of tendinitis and won't take it now unless nothing else works.
If you still have a copy of that post and/or the name of the lab that was deleted, could you please send it to me via private message. Sounded interesting.
Jim
david_94301 michael82149
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michael82149 jimjames
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Hi,
The results from the DNA suggests the antibiotics that will work based on the germs NDA. Levaquin was the only one that "hit" both strains. I am just unsure becasue I was on Cipro for 2 weeks but oddly Cipro was not recommended for both. It also suggest IV or Oral, I didn't see that part of the report, the uro is going to mail it to me. I have read the Levaquin IV works no better then oral but it's just what I read.
marco62126 michael82149
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abdu20898 michael82149
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hi michael , i had a prostaits for abdout 5 months now , had tried several of antibiotics with no response,
before one week I had prostait fluid examination showed the same bacteria you had S.epidermidis in a strong growth, and the result showed that the bacteria has resistant to most antibiotics except three types and one of them was avelox , today am going to my doctor to discuss what i will do but am thinking to take as iv so to insure to reach the injection but don't know if the doctor will agree with this option, any way good luck for you and please let us know your situation updates.
michael82149 abdu20898
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Hi, I had mild growth of staph in my semon and the DNA found serretta M in my urine and was not found on the normal culture . According to my uro, Levaquine oral will work well for this but I have doubts. I am going to take it for 28 days and retest. The uro did a rectal yesterday and felt no bumps or systs. Been on levaquin for 16 days and the right side of prostate was normal and not inflamed anymore. The left side was really tender and swollen, he milked what was in in by AGRESSIVLY pressing on it several times. Thus is a necessary procedure but is by fare one of the most painful things ever! Then did a urine sample with the milked prostate fluid. so, I would say the Levaquine is working in that sense but my urinary track still hurts all day and my bladder hurts to hold urine and ejaculation hurts afterward. He ordered a Transrectal ultrasound and prostate scope to look for anything funky (on the same day, fun fun) that may have been caused by the bacteria. Levaquin oral works just as good as IV I am told and IV will need to be administered by an infectious disease clinic most likely . I would ask for 28 days of Levaquin and get retested. if that doesn't work then get more aggressive in my (unqualified) opinion.
jay111 michael82149
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