Prostatitis and cycling
dlc...@my-dejanews.com
In article <6nq2aj$ra3$1...@hiekkalaatikko.cs.hut.fi>,
o...@iki.fi wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a 21-year old student and have been suffering from (supposingly)
> prostatitis symptoms for about 3 months now.
> I've had a couple of urinal samples and no inflammation was found. My
> doctor inspected my prostate and diagnosed this to be prostatitis, and
> the symptoms seem to fit.
>
> My question is, is there really no real treatment? My doctor said I'll
> just have to manage, use normal pain medication and keep myself warm.
> Another doctor, however, claimed there is "some kind of medication".
> Can anyone tell me more?
> Also, can I keep cycling? Mountain biking has been my main hobby for
> over a year and to stop it would be like stopping living, well, not quite,
> but you got the point ;) Also, I have no other means for travelling for
> example to work daily, so I practically need my bike. If this affects
> my prostatitis much, is there anything that could reduce the effect?
>
> My doctor claims these cases usually heal with time. Any experiences on this?
> I've already learned to live with this, but it's not extremely nice either.
>
> By the way, the symptoms tend to get worse after a long/hard sex session
> with my girlfriend.
>
> -jussi
> --
> [o...@iki.fi][http://www.iki.fi/obs][kiikkalankuja66][60800ilmajoki]
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>
Perhaps you should peruse the PF site at http://prostate.org and do some other
searches for information. Best of luck.
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<posting of page by Dr Gabe Mirkin>
Gabe Mirkin is not a prostate expert. He is a jack-of-all-trades who
posts pages about every disease under the sun at his web site. Please
refrain from posting his advice here as if it is gospel truth. He
makes no mention of any non-bacterial prostatitis etiology, and that
is unforgivably poor medicine, and dangerously misleading to patients.
Intravenous antibiotics 'at very high doses' for chronic non-bacterial
prostatitis: what crap! Where does he get this stuff?
Daniel Shoskes
>
> ||||| ...recent studies showed that one of the most common venereal diseases,
> chlamydia, can cause chronic prostatitis. Practicing physicians cannot make
> this diagnosis, because they cannot order the only dependable test,
> polymerase chain reaction.
>
As far as these studies being "recent", chlamydia has been suspected as one
pathogen responsible for chronic prostatitis since the early 1980's. PCR
for chlamydia is a commonly available test. Smith Kline Beecham labs does
it for about $70 I believe.
Daniel Shoskes MD
Institute for Male Urology
http://www.urol.com
UCLA
http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~dshoskes