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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    So I the same symptoms for 2-3 years. turns out

    cervical spinal disc compression on spinal cord.

    way better now

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    have had prostatitis now for 4 months was treated for UTI gave antibiotics it went away for about a month now its back went to er they said i have prostatitis and an other round of antibiotics now that i have taken bactrum for. month symptoms never went away completely and now i am done with the bactrum my symptoms are slowly coming back some time when i pee it burns like gas has been poured on my penis i am scared to have sex donr want to make it worse i have been taking flowmax. but it keep me up all night peeing I WANT THIS GONE any body can help thanks

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    Okay Gents! I have been dealing with all the same issues as everyone with CPPS or Prostitis and I finally found my cure! I do not have any sexual dysfunctional issues, but I have had a vasectomy and been tested for STDs and been on years of Antibiotics. The cure is .5 mg of Ciallis! For some reason this drug seems to open all the veins and arteries that are giving me these terribly debilitating illness. I take 1 pill every day and I feel 95% cured, some days 100% cured. I get mine through Blink meds but there are cheaper ways to get it. I am on this site to tell everyone dealing with CPPS to try it out! It changed my life

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    Hey there Max! Sorry to hear your suffering. Im in not a great place myself either. This started for me around last December and has slowly just got progressively worse. Ive been to a normal doctor, got some antiobiotics and naproxen pain meds for inflamation. Guess im just sort of waiting for this to go away. I had prostatitis about 2 years ago and eventually it went away. So when this came back i thought well..it will just go away as it once did before. Back then i also got the same meds. The one difference was i went to Thailand for 2 weeks and i think the warm climate did a world of good for me. Came back to Finland where i live and it was gone.

    I have my theories about what got this started. I do crossfit here and when this all started early this year i got a sore back and very very stiff crotch. Had a hard time putting on my shoes. We were doing quite a bit of squats with reasonably heavy weights and i think it may have been a little much on me. Think it aggravated my prostate.

    This time round i have however had different or some new symptoms like very random hip pain. Leg weakness, tiredness. Radiating leg pain that goes down to my thighs. As well as abdommen pain now and then. Its all super random. Seems like it moves around and messes with you. Probably the most uncomfortable thing i have going on currently is a very heavy groin and the inner thigh pain. That is the worst. Especially in the mornings when i awake, thats when it feels worse.

    Currently trying to go to the gym but i feel that even walking right now makes things hurt so im unsure if doing crossfit at the moment is making this worse. I just hurt the next day in the groin big time. Very heavy feeling like you've been kicked in the nuts!

    Im currenly on antibiotics but i cant say i have felt any better on them. Only a couple left to go. I just keep reading that this is likely muscle / tight pelvic floor inducded and sort of hesitant to go to a urologist and start spending a heap of money as well as tests on god knows what. Its a tricky one.

    Ive suffered ( probably a few times per year ) also with episodes of Proctalgia fugax. Not sure if you have heard of it. Its like a spasm in the gut or feels more in the butt actually. Its very very painful and usually comes at night. I did some reading about this online and clearly it has to do with tight pelvic muscles. I was lucky to come across this as i have had episodes of this but never known what it is. Just hurts like hell and then its done. So im leaning to tight pelvic floor as opposed to bacteria.

    I bought a stand up electric desk and am minimizing my sitting. It hurts to sit. Not having trouble urinating but at times after sex i am pritty sore. Bit of a burning sensation when i pee.

    For about 2 months i also had a thing where when i would get up from a chair, having been seated it would hurt a lot in my inner groin when i got up. This seems to have passed. But all kinds of little weird things. No rhyme or reason it seems. Anyhow just wanted to say hi and to hang in there. I am taking Saw palmeto and Quercetin but cant say i have noticed anything. I think im going to give coffee a break. That has come up now quite a bit to stay off that and beer. Seems like they also say there is a whole host of foods you should avoid too. Just dont really know what to believe. We are all different so i think its hard to find a one fix for all solution here. All the best!

    C

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    i had acute prostatitis at the beginning of the pandemic. two months of antibiotic cured the acute phase...it took me six months total of clean living (steamed vegetable diet, no caff no alcohol and no smoking) -and i cured it completely. a few months ago i abandoned the clean life and fell into my old ways, and bam here i am again; not bad like last year, just a nagging gnawing discomfort in my bladder and tip of penis. i had my chance and i cleared it once, then i blew it and i feel like this will last for my entire life.

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    new here what were your main symptoms. Mine are just weird burning like I have never felt after micturition. Then just weird itching feeling then almost gone then back again. On doxy 100 bid for like 3 weeks now a little better but sometimes burning all over the place shaft, glans, and testicles weird ejaculatory pain etc.

    Thanks

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