Prostatitis recovery period
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Hi All,
So I've been trying to get rid of prostatitis for the last 3 and a half months now, hard to get a diagnosis but eventually got put on 6 weeks of meds (4 weeks levo, 2 weeks doxycycline). After 6 weeks of up and down in regards to progress, a few days after finishing the script the symptoms got better and urine flow improved (no more retention feeling etc.)
Read about only 5% have bacterial blah blah, but my doc seems to think all prostatitis is caused by bacteria at the beginning. Anyway, symptoms improving but I have also stopped drinking, smoking, eating spicy foods, sitting down for longs periods of time and cut down on sex. From your experience If I lapse and do these things will the prostatitis just come back?
thanks
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Pascal.Post max59857
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pavankumar61488 max59857
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christophe73261 max59857
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My symptoms are that usually after sex I get a pain on my left side/rear lower area of my back somewhere around my hip area. I also sometimes have a pain left testicle which is very sensitive to touch, also lately my foreskin is very sensitive if retracted. I have been diagnosed with an enlarged prostate (around 1 year ago) and I take Combodart medication.
My GP does not know what my problem is and also my urologist does not know. I have mentioned that I have very similar symptoms to Prostatitis and I get asked to provide a urine sample which is always clear with no infections. The only thing that the relieves the pain is Naproxen, which works really well and the pain stops within 30 mins and I am right for around 24 hrs.
Are my symptoms typical of Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome?
david99439 max59857
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my cbp is due to klebsiella prostatitis, a persistant and stubborn germ, that does not respond to cipro or usual antibiotics, however i am still fighting it with basic antibiotics such as clarithomycin or cefixime. The way it works in prostate infections is, you have to saturate/accumulate the prostate with antibotics so that antibiotics reach all parts of the prostate. while on antibiotics abstrain from sex for a week this will ensure antibiotics stays in prostate for a while. The germs would die off due to congestion and the antibiotics, i am taking 250 mg clarithomycin twice daily for couple of weeks, planning to finish the antibiotics episode with couple of days of fruit fasting..reg the numbers my psa is .85 and creatinine is .8. I stay away from sugary/starchy foods, consume lots of alkaline fruits such as watermelon and drink lots of water as well, mostly have vegetarian food, and eat chicken or fish once or twice in a week, and do intermittent fasting as well.
abdul89762 max59857
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But my urine flow seems slow, but it is not retaining. My body seems burning some time
But the Urologist gave Avadat or Dutasteride. I am not courageous to take that now
I need help. Thanks
mike102580 max59857
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mike102580 max59857
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mike102580 max59857
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Shouldn’t but don’t stick it were it doesn’t belong lol that is 99% of the cause of most people’s prostatitus 😂👍 mine includes .
abdul89762 mike102580
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8
56
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6:30am
11.15am
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5(No pressure)
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Sept 22
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8
56
Urinating Time(amount)
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6am
8:40am
10:50am
2:225pm
6:30pm
9:30pm
8.1(disturbed sleep)
8.1
8.1
8.1
8.3
8
8
56
Sept 23
7am
9:30am
12
noon
3pm
5pm
7pm
10:30pm
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Amount of water Drink(ounce)
12
16
16
8
Urinating Time(amount)
2:30am
6:30am
8.2
6
Sept 21
7am
12
noon
5pm
7pm
10:30pm
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16
16
16
8
56
Urinating Time
(amount,ounce)
4am
6:30am
11.15am
2:40pm
4:45pm
7pm
10:30pm
11
8
8
8
8
8
5(No pressure)
56
Sept 22
7am
12
noon
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7pm
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Amount of water Drink(ounce)
16
16
16
8
56
Urinating Time(amount)
1:30am
6am
8:40am
10:50am
2:225pm
6:30pm
9:30pm
8.1(disturbed sleep)
8.1
8.1
8.1
8.3
8
8
56
Sept 23
7am
9:30am
12
noon
3pm
5pm
7pm
10:30pm
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Ounce
Amount of water Drink(ounce)
12
16
16
8
Urinating Time(amount)
2:30am
6:30am
8.2
6
Sept 21
7am
12
noon
5pm
7pm
10:30pm
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Ounce
Amount of water Drink(ounce)
16
16
16
8
56
Urinating Time
(amount,ounce)
4am
6:30am
11.15am
2:40pm
4:45pm
7pm
10:30pm
11
8
8
8
8
8
5(No pressure)
56
Sept 22
7am
12
noon
5pm
7pm
Total
Ounce
Amount of water Drink(ounce)
16
16
16
8
56
Urinating Time(amount)
1:30am
6am
8:40am
10:50am
2:225pm
6:30pm
9:30pm
8.1(disturbed sleep)
8.1
8.1
8.1
8.3
8
8
56
Sept 23
7am
9:30am
12
noon
3pm
5pm
7pm
10:30pm
Total
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Amount of water Drink(ounce)
12
16
16
8
Urinating Time(amount)
2:30am
6:30am
8.2
6
I describe a situation
Water drink 7am 16ounce, 12noon 16 ounce 5pm 16 ounce 7pm 8 ounce
Urinating 4am 11 ounce, 6:30am 8 ounce,11:15am 8, 2:40pm 8 ounce, 4:45pm 8 ounce, 7pm 8 ounce 10:30pm(no pressure)5ounce
Total water drink 56 ounce
Total urinate 56 ounce
I have bacterial infection, taking Ciprofloxacin
AlwaysHope27 max59857
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I dont plan to post on here, i just want to tell my story and hope it helps someone. First off im 22 years old, I exercise regularly and I try to eat as healthy as I can. I have a long line of family members who have suffered from manic depression, bipolar and suicide. I lost my father last year to suicide and my grandfather the year before. I know the struggle of feeling hopeless and stuck, and chronic non-bacterial prostatitis showed me what it really feels like. Heres my story. When I was 20 years old I was working out everyday, I worked out sometimes even twice a day. I just wanted to be as big as I could be, but i went about it the wrong way. I had a friend who was one of the biggest guys in the gym and i asked him how i could get bigger quicker (stupid i know) well he gave me Testosterone Boosters he has gotten from a local GNC, I took around 5-15 capsules and was definetly seeing results. After a few weeks i started to notice issues with my urination and felt the urge to urinate ALL THE TIME. It got to the point where I was waking up in the middle of the night to urinate and it became so frustrating so i finally went to see a doctor.I had told the Doctor what i had taken and showed her the bottle and she said that couldnt be what caused it and that im to young. So I was tested for all types of STDs, have done over 25 urine tests, and a blood test and they found nothing. Then she had me do a Cystoscopy (where they put a tube and a camera up your urethra) and she found nothing. I was in tears. I had told her to please check my prostate and just see if its enlarged, and so she did and said I was fine and that its all in my head and the culture tests show it. No 22 year old wants to have a prostate exam. No man in general does. So I went and got a second opinion at the closest hospital i could. I told the Doctor everything i had done and all the tests and told him of my symptoms and he immediately wanted to do a prostate exam, the prostate exam hurt so bad i felt it all the way to the tip of my penis all the pain that i had been feeling. I fell to the floor, He looked at me and said yep, thats prostatitis. It took me minutes to get back up I was in so much pain. He thought it might have been bacterial prostatitis so he prescribed anti biotics, after 15 days i was feeling no relief and started to feel like i was sitting on a golf ball. It became the most uncomfortable thing Ive ever felt, and I felt it 24 hours a day 7 days a week. He sent me to a prostate specialist and there he had recommended prostate massages, so i did. And i did around 5 prostate massages once a week for 5 weeks. And i got some relief but it didnt get rid of the golf ball feeling so i asked what else we could do. Then it became so hard to have bowel movements that i got hemorhoids and had to go see a doctor for that as well and had to change my diet and so sitz baths etc.. Now mind you during this time i was prescribed Alpha blockers, Timuloson, a bunch of the meds that urologists prescribe to help with the Prostatitis condition, but none of them worked. The doctor then recommended pelvic floor therapy. During Pelvic Floor Therapy the doctor/physical therapist put a probe in my anus and i had to sit while it tired my butt muscles out. For 30 minutes, every Friday at 8am for 8 weeks. It was mentally a really hard thing to cope with and wasn't a pleasant feeling especially being the fact that i had hemorrhoids in my anus and a probe had to go into them. but it helped and that's all I wanted was relief.. now this was about a year and a half process. and after about a month or 2 the symptoms started to come back, by this time im 21, im drinking alot because i finally legally can, and im eating anything and doing everything a 21 year old wants to do. I called my doctor and told him about the symptoms and he asked if ive been drinking, eating spicy foods or consuming caffeine etc.. all the things that effect the prostate, bladder etc. I was consuming all of them not caring, and it hurt me, the prostatitis came back, and for the last 3 months ive been going easy on all of them but the symptoms progressively got worse, so i told my doc i wanted to start physical therapy again. When i went to see the physical therapist again she said my insurance will not cover it unless i provide 1000$ co-payment. I dont have that kind of money to be spending on physical therapy while I work full time and do part time schooling I have a car Payment bills, etc.. So she gave me an alternative, its practically the same device called Perfect PFE they use there only smaller and i could do it at home, So i purchased it for less than 100$ and have been doing it the last week and been eating healthier and doing sitz baths and yoga helps alot to. its opens your hips and releases tension in the pelvic area, and its not very hard to do. Now yesterday and today I have been practically pain free! I still have a little burning during urination and still sometimes have the urge to urinate and not feel completely empty but i know with continuing the pelvic therapy this will improve as it did before. So whats helped me the most with relief through this terrible scary roller coaster ride are these things here, Pelvic Floor therapy, warm Sitz bath with epsom salt (helped release and relieve my muscles and stress), YOGA, and also Counseling/therapy- At times through this process going 8 months to a year without any relief i felt hopeless, and after losing my father and grandfather to suicide what else do you think would be on my mind. The counseling helped show me i wasnt alone. And that theres always hope in any situation it just depends on how bad you want to help yourself and what youre willing to do to go through it to get the help you need. PLEASE DONT GIVE UP, NO MATTER WHAT YOURE FIGHTING, SEEK HELP. YOURE NEVER ALONE.
dee14533 max59857
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So here's my story.
It all started with receiving an unprotected oral from a sex worker. Immediately that night got night sweat and chills, started suspecting I might have caught something
10 days later symptoms started to emerge. First, tip of penis begin to get red/swollen. Followed by small amount of clear penile discharge. Then burning/swelling of lower abdomen, followed by pain in the right testicle. Symptoms tends to come and go multiple times during the day. Sometimes light, sometimes severe and it cycles.
Freaked out and visited STD clinic, had a comprehensive urine DNA test, diagnosed positive for ureaplasma urealyticum. No other infections were detected.
Prescribed doxycycline and azithromycin, took them both for 10 days.
Felt improvement while on antibiotics but a week after being off the drug symptoms relapsed. Ran back to the clinic to perform culture on both urine and semen. But to my surprised both returned negative result.
Hard to understand because my symptoms were still there, no lighter than before I started antibiotics. If it's not the bacteria causing the symptoms, then what is? Really confused. Got the doc to prescribe 10 days of moxifloxacin (Avelox).
Another urologist suspected bacterial prostatitis and extended this to 5 week total.
Now 3 weeks into the course of moxifloxacin. Hard to tell if I'm any better. Still getting symptoms which are mainly light pain in the right testicle and burning sensation near the lower abdomen and base of penis/urethra. Might have a multi drug resistant bacteria.
Just overwhelmed by the whole ordeal. Wanted to share my story as well as get some advice on what this might be.
roman35852 dee14533
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Hi Dee,
how are you? Are you better now?
My story is similar to your, unprotected oral from sex worker, resistant chlamydia, 8 years of problems...
dee14533 roman35852
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Hey roman, I read your post. Really sorry for what you've had to go through. Sounds like we're dealing with something very similar here except you've been dealing with this for way longer than I have.
To answer your question...no I'm not feeling better. The discomfort is more or less always there, but in varying severity during the day. Some people talk about remission/flare up but I've never experienced any sort of remission longer than at most a day or two.
Hearing that you've been struggling for 8 years, I guess that's probably going to be my fate as well. I've exhausted all my treatment options. The only remaining is removal of testicle and/or prostate which I'm seriously starting to consider as well.
Any theories as to what's causing our issues and is there even any hope?
roman35852 dee14533
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Hey Dee, in my case the persistent chlamydia causes the problems, it reached the prostate and I can't get rid of it 😦
It's really difficult to eradicate such bacteria, they form biofilms and they can 'hide' in the cells as dormant, so the antibiotics can't target them and standard test can't detect them.
And the penetration of antibiotics into the prostate is also questionable.
Ureaplasma urealyticum can be similar case, you can still have it even though the tests say something different.
dee14533 roman35852
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Right, that's exactly what's happening in my case as well. I struggle with alternating pains in the testicles and prostate. Yet, tests have always come back negative. I've taken enough antibiotics to know that it's basically hopeless in this situation. So now, having run out of options, I'm seriously thinking about surgery. I'm still going back and forth on this, because on some days I feel fine enough that I begin to have a normal life whereas on other days the discomfort is such that I can't think about anything other than having my testes/prostate removed. Surgery has its risks and aftereffects and I don't take it lightly, but I'm depressed and can't think of many things worse than the thought of living with this chronic pain for the rest of my life. The challenge obviously is finding doctors who will be willing to operate on me...
Curious to hear what your thoughts are too, have you considered surgery as an option?
chris2020 dee14533
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How are you now? Did you find any doctor that would be willing to operate and if so what kind of surgery is on offer. I'm struggling with this too big time. I'm very depressed also and cannot see a future for me with this condition. The pain and discomfort is unbearable.