jeffos

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selangor

Malaysia

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What is your score on the Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (posted on home page)?
25
If you have been diagnosed with prostatitis, please tell us your story: age, duration of symptoms, treatments, results, and the like.
I am 42 years old.
My first onset was in 1998, no bacteria whatsoever was found. the diagnosis was based on TRUS examination. The symptoms have lasted for 9 months and then disappeared after having taken several months of various type of Abx.
Afterwards, during 10 years I have been symptom free.
In september 2008 it relapsed again but stronger than the first time, I consulted an urologist immediately and the treatment was the same as 10 years ago: Abx + antiinflamatory for weeks without much sucess...high leucocytes number have been found in my urine after prostate massage but no bacteria even by PCR testing.
I have visited several urologists without any improvement...Until I found one who prescribed me Tramadol to cope with the pain, this drug works great for me and at least I could start to control more or less my pain.
In the "race" of finding a cure, i come along with the intraprotastic injection treatment....then I have tried one direct injection of Abx laced with steroid into the prostate with my local uro, it was a disaster...no improvement but worsening of the pain...
After that, every time I have a beginning of a flare up I go to see my Urologist: he does a urine anlaysis after prostate massage and a PSA check....sometimes it is found e-coli bacteria but I am not sure that it is here from the beginning or just a contamination from the intraprostatic injection...however the treatment is always the same: intraveneous injection of antibiotic if necessary,xatral for urine flow and tramadol for pain control.
Recently I have had a very bad flare up, still suffering...very debilitating...I am contemplating surgery.

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  • jeffos

    My symptoms are mainly pain related especially sitting pain, to the point that i am using a donut cushion everywhere: work, plane, car, train...in addition i got all the "satellites" common CP symptoms but not constantly like: weak urinary stream, fatigue, low Libi...etc

     

     

    Jan 7, 2013

  • Martin Turner

    After waiting for five hours in A@E was told that there were no beds so to go home and if my fever got worse to go to another A@E 

    May 16, 2014

  • DJ

    Hi Jeff, the 250mg ceftriaxone wad to cover gonorrhea so it was the correct dose for that, however I tested negative for that but it seemed to clear the initial discharge symptoms. That was almost 2 weeks after exposure so I guess by that time it had already made its way up to the seminal vesicles or prostate and it wasn't a high enough dose to hey in there!

    Oct 25, 2014