Prostatitis and Gerd, is there a link?

Certainly no expert here but I have read a lot about BPH and have suffered from it for many years myself. Your problem does not sound like BPH which is simply an enlarged prostate that squezees the uretrha and makes passage of urine difficult.

It's very unusual at your age. A urologist can tell in one minute if your prostate is enlarged. My God, man! I can't believe you are seeing a urologist! I have been treated by one for about 15 years and have never had symptoms as serious as yours. Your symptoms are nothing to fool around with, sounds very serious to me. Modern medicine is unbelieveable, get yourself to a specialist. You are too young to suffer so, it's not necessary.  

Hi Luket,

I myself have been having similar problems over the last 2-3 months and wondered if there was some kind of connection. I had acid reflux around 12 months ago for which I was put on omeperazole for. Having eventually weened myself off them it dawned on me around New Year I no longer needed the medication even if I ate certain trigger foods which usually gave me heartburn; wheat etc. However I was getting stomach pains and these pains have persisted with intermittent indigestion for the last few weeks and I am having an endoscopy in the next couple of weeks to investigate, although the specialist reassured me he does not think it is anything serious. As well as this around end of Feb I was having pain in my groin, genitalia and having problems urinating ie needing to go more often and urgently - I had water infection tests and STD tests which all came back negative, without a diagnosis from the doctor's I put this down to chronic pelvic pain syndrome or chronic prostatis, however since then these issues have subsided so they probably aren't 'chronic' in nature but they was not caused by traditional bacterial infections. I am 26 and fairly fit however do suffer from anxiety and I think stress and anxiety can cause or worsen the symptoms of both of these conditions so the link may well be there.

I have had exactly the same symptoms you describe! Did you ever find a resolution to this?

Same symptoms here. I'm 29, and it began with a weak ache in testicle. Then I got pains on chest, and reflux. Now everything hurts with urine channels, around kidney etc. Nothing come out from pee, ultrasound, blood... Still going to different doctors to find out.

Hello-   I have similiar issues. Did you find anything out or get any relief?  

I'm having the same symptom. Went to doctors other day and everything came back negative.They gave me antibiotics and sent me home...4 days later still feel pain. I bought some extra strength Zantacs and it help with both pains temporary so that makes me think it's related...I'm going to see a specialist later this week for more test...hope this helped!!!

Did anyone get any answers about this. Ive been suffering from bad stomach acid which suddenly came on about 5 months ago. its now concentrated in my left side/back and is pretty constant. I then suddenly started having issues with pain in the tip of my penis. urine tract infection tests have come up negative as well as scans of my bladder and kidney. its exactly as described, pain is not while urinating but after and the urge to go more frequently.

i am having the same problem .

i have not been tested for stds as of now but ecoli came out in semen analysis.

i am having pain genital region and back.

Also since i was taking a lot of medicines i develop stomach pain. I underwent an endoscopy and it came out to be gastritis and duodonitis ( inflammation).

I literally joined just to help everyone out. I got prostatitis (of unknown origin, no bacteria or at least 120 days of 4 types of antibiotics didnt work, I dont recommend that lol, I went to an infectious disease expert and that didn't work either, got tested for every STD imaginable and some rare bacteria i dont recall what because I had unprotected sex a few times right before this and figured that was surely the cause) at first it was ache in balls, urethra tip hurt a little, pee all the time, lower back pain and then it turned into an ache which was my prostate. About 4 weeks before this happened I destroyed my stomach with stress anxiety and junk food, so sick to my stomach i threw up and couldn't eat for a few days, at age 27, I am fit lean and no underlying health conditions at the time except wild anxiety. I freaked out when the prostatitis happened made it worse etc. Now this was 3.5 years ago. what made a huuuuge difference for me, was diet, and probiotics, visbiome work for me. gluten free was huge as well. my gut to this day is still not fully healed but was going strong, prostate was under control, I mean no throb, definitely don't get constipated that makes it feel awful lol. Now! so I got covid a few weeks ago, and that doesn't make your gut feel good lol and I ate bad and alas, I got horrible acid reflux, i have gerd btw I forgot about that because I'm dumb when I get anxious and woah Nelly now 5 days after the gerd attack my stomach is coming around I can eat again, but guess what. my prostate, that dang dull heavy feeling its back! Get your gut health in order and stress anxiety under control, I saw results for this in about a month or two the first time. I also take an advil every other night (dont do this on an empty stomach like my dumbass recently that also contributed to my bad gerd attack) In short though the gluten free and good diet thing is #1 for me and close second probiotics. Now, there is also research suggesting a yeast overgrowth in the prostate as a cause which would certainly be linked with poor gut health and they have provided antifungal medications with I belive 80% effectiveness. I was never able to find someone to give me that. Modern doctors mostly scoff at gut health, its annoying. Anyway hope this helps people, message me if you have questions because good lawd was prostatitis scary and annoying the first time for me!