have tried cyproxin, am taking saw palmetto, akalizers, vitamin c, fish oil, been for colonic hydrotherapy, completely changed my diet..etc.. going for a cystoscopy..also ridded myself of parasites that i picked up in asia.. crazy shit man..
when the prostate becomes enflamed, i get dizzy spells,short term memory loss, agitated and sometimes irrational.. i pray for things to get better and keep away from stressful situations as best i can.. im over it.. has been going going on for months and months and i just cant stop the pain... it may leave me for a day or so and just when i think its going to get better, it comes back..i dont mean to come across like a victim.. there isnt anybody that really understands other than a fellow sufferer and lets face it, nobody likes to talk about it or doctors, who unfortunately are unable to give a straight answer due to the complex nature of the prostate..

Hi Jake,

Welcome to the network.

Do I understand correctly that your CPSI score is 32?

If you are open to it please "edit" your profile and photo on your My Page. This will help others more precisely interact with you. Such things as age, duration of symptoms will help.

Who is taking care of you now?

Thank you.

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Not sure if you're near Darlinghurst, but I was walking by a hospital there when a bird pooped on my head. The Aussies told me that's a sign of good luck.

not far from darlinghurst and yes, hahaha its supposed to be a sign of good luck.. it happens alot here, which could explain why we get called the lucky country :).. im guessing that the hospital that you could have been walking by was st vincents ?

question : is this prostate issue, something that i am stuck with for life?

Yes. I think St Vincent's. We were walking to the Darlinghurst market, I think on a Saturday morning.

Prostatitis is not necessarily a lifelong problem. However, many patients have symptoms, including very severe symptoms, for years and even decades. Have a look at the stories of Dave, Merlin, and Ike to get a sense of the severity in some cases.

good luck james ! just be careful . many men have got hurt looking for a cure .
myself and few other men have been trick into having surgeries we should not have had . but we were desperate and in pain.

god bless us all!!!

Interesting post to imnotcrazy. I am not aware of any data to support the steps outlined. For example, I am not aware of any data to show that to "alkalinize" the body is in any way useful in treating the symptoms of prostatitis. However, you do touch on a critically important concept: coping. How do men cope with the sometimes seemingly endless burden of prostatitis? Maybe it's time to start a group on coping strategies, to explore such subjects as prayer, yoga, exercise, and the like. What do you think? Do you want to start the group? If you do, I'll show you how and also how to get discussions going. Let me know.

I am sorry I can not help you with this one. However, what I do know is that the few doctors who are doing radical prostatectomies for chronic prostatitis are finding a very high occurance of cancer. The numbers of these operations are quite low. However, the few doctors doing these operations talk to each other and I have heard #'s as high as 80%. Dr Krongrad would be a better person to ask as he has first hand experieince.