Prostatitis Cure - So far so good.

Hi, since my last post 2 months ago, the problem seems to have gone. I first got the problem beginning of December2014. Painfull to sit on any chair, felt I had a prostrate the size of a cricket ball and had to sit on the edge of my posterior when driving. Frequent visits to toilet, difficulty passing, small stream etc. My instant reaction with very little research and just gut feeling was to cut out alcohol, tea (drank loads every day of my life with milk. I am in my early 60;s) and after reading a herbal prostatitis website, I started taking 6 recommended tablets each day.

Then I saw Joe's comment about gluten when I was searching the net, so started cutting out gluten. At this point, 6 weeks after the problem started, I visited my GP because nothing worked. I was given the routine finger examination, told I had prostatitis and was prescribed 20 days antibiotics. At the start of the program I decided (no reason) to stop taking the herbal remedies, but I continued cutting out the other things previously mentioned. During the 20 days the condition re-occured less frequently but was still there. At the end of the 20 days, I believed I needed more antibiotics but stupidly, I had forgotten to make an appointment to see the GP and could not get any. During the next two weeks I improved although my body was telling me strongly that it was still there in the background.

I was now in a dillema. To what could I attribute the improvement? I beleive it to be avoiding gluten and not the antibiotics. In recent weeks, I have returned to drinking alcohol and tea with milk in moderation, but unlike Joe, I do not want to take the chance at returning to gluten to test the theory Definitely do not want it back.. I was given the advise that gluten free can take up to 6 months to start working. For me, it is now 3 months and I feel like I did before the problem started. I will certainly not be complacent, but just wanted to give encouragement to all sufferers out there. If there is a return of the symptoms,I will write another post.

I have been able to feel much better after consuming zinc. I have been eating wheat germ and I feel about 99% cured... I feel within a month or two months I will be completely cured.... The prostate needs zinc, if you give it zinc it will recuperate itself and you prostatitus will go away!!! I strongly recommend it!!

Hi Joe, how are things going ? can you please give us an update on whether your symptoms are still gone ?  Do you allow yourself to eat oats on the glutin free diet ?

Hey Joe,

Maus from the states here. I was diagnosed with Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis by several urologists about 4-5 months ago.  I underwent MANY courses of antibiotics but none seemed to work except for Doxycycline. Although I returned back negative for urinalysis and abnormal cd4 test, my symptoms remained with me until just about a week ago.  Although the etiology of our cases are different, the treatment options seem to be the same for both...eg prostate massage, pelvic floor exercises, NSAIDs. All of these things failed to work for me EXCEPT frequent masterbation (1x day) and including a large amount of dietary fiber and probiotics into my diet and reducing total coffee intake. If you have not done so already, maybe talk to your doctor about dietary changes. Hope you get better soon my man. 

Maus

The link between prostatitis and gluten is becoming quite well known now. Google "prostatitis gluten" and you'll get a lot of hits.

Hi joe

May I know specifically what you dubious vitamin you consume that cure 95% of the problematic prostatis ?

Really appreciated if you can share it because I'm suffering the same problem and don't really get what you mean by dubious vitamins 

Thanks 

Which vitamin worked for you?

Glad to hear gluten free worked for you. Unfortunately I was never able to strongly correlate prostate relief with going gluten free. Things that helped more were abstaining from alcohol and coffee. I started going to a Naturopathic doctor a couple years ago, even had food sensitivity testing done a year ago and starting avoiding other foods such as dairy and beef. Also took vitamins and supplements such B complex, saw palmetto, etc. It all helped some but my PSA scores continued to climb until I ended up with a blockage and had to go to the emergency room and get a catheter put in this past January. A few days later I had the catheter removed and went on tamsulosin and finasteride. Neither drug seem to change much except to make my ejaculations more watery. My urologist thought my prostate was about 90 ccs so looking at my options I settled on a PAE procedure which I had done about 4 weeks ago in Denver, CO. So far I'm much better than pre procedure and have gone off the tamsulosin and finasteride drugs. My radiologist said to expect improvements up to 3 months post procedure so I'm looking forward to continued improvement.

Hey man, i am really happy for you and i hope you are doing well.    I havea similar problem to use regarding my prostate, i was eating this commercial brand wholewheat bread called "massimo" massimo is the brand name of the bread i ate, right after i ate the bread i started getting prostate pain all of a sudden, i then tried to urinate and it too was difficult. I have eating this brand of bread the wholewheat one only though and i have a storng feeling thats what caused my prostate problem. I have one question, can urinate normally now, and pleas be honest yeah. Your answer would really help me alot and others who reads this post of yours and mine. The thing is, i am only 20 years old and im having this prostate problem and im very worried.     I thought it may be caused my low testoaterone and im not sure whether i have low testosterone or not. In fact, i am going to get my testosterone level checked. Sorry for making this post long and sorry for my bad grammar and punctuation, english is my second language. I would really appreciate your help, thanks.   

 

I began to suffer with prostatitis about 6 years ago and went through the typical treatment of rounds of antibiotics and painkillers. I even had TUMT , its a treatment to shrink the prostate, it was hell ! And it didn't work. But i started to keep track of when the pain will start and what i was doing when it did. This is what i learned. First off i havent had pain in years since . Anytime i did situps crunches leg raises i would have pain for days afterward so i stopped! When ever i would have to use the bathroom to do number 2 and pushed hard because i was in a rush or was a bit backed up it would cause pain, and absolutely no play back their that would definitely cause inflammation that you are prone to their. Use Motrin or which ever pain killer works for you thats over the counter and Turmeric which is extremely helpful for inflammation. And thats it. No pain. It took trial and error but it honestly worked. I hope this helps anyone else out there.

Hi Joe. Have you lost a lot of weight as a consequence of avoiding gluten? 

Glad this worked out for you but i have been gluten free, dairy free, alcohol free, chocolate free for 25 years and i have been suffering with prostatitis for about 23 years. Diet restrictions help a little bit but not not very much.

I went low oxalate a few years ago and that seems to also help, probably more than the other dietary restrictions.

I recently started tamsulosin and hate the side effects but it seems to take the edge off the debilitating pain and frquency better than anything else i tried. However, it still only provides partial relief.