4days and my prostate

Symptoms Physical
#1

Hi all,
I’m a new member, and I’ve had low T for many years now (not related to Fin).
Recently I stupidly decided to take my chances and take Fin. I took it for 4 days only.
Starting in the 2nd day I experienced testicular pain, which led me to discontinue it. 3 days after quitting the testicular pain disappeared, but instead I started having perineum pain!!!

One week later and I still have perineum pain, and it’s very disturbing as it is constant. I also have mild discomfort/burning in tip of penis after peeing.
It sounds to me that Fin might have inflamed my prostate, so I’m looking at prostatitis.

I’ll consult an urologist this week, and he might put me on antibiotics. I’m not convinced this will work, as it was caused my hormone imbalance, probably DHT.
I once consulted with a doctor in London, which told me that some people developed pelvic pain as a result of Fin. I thought perineum pain and pelvic pain are different.

What do you guys recommend?
Should my prostate normalize with time, now that I’m off Fin? I still haven’t reached the 2-weeks mark, at which point you guys got a flow of DHT running back in your systems.

:frowning:

#2

Give it time and the pain should subside. Fin atrophies your prostate so with the return of DHT, and considering you only took it for 4 days, should hopefully bode well in your and your prostate’s favor.

#3

Well it didn’t…
I just realized the date, so I guess a happy birthday my dear prostatitis is in order.

I’m trying to remain optimistic, and have booked an appointment with a new doctor for tomorrow, but it’s kinda hard with all the bad testimonials in this part of the forum. From what I read it seems some people do get better with antibiotics, but also many don’t.
I haven’t tried 1month worth of antibiotics, the most I’ve taken was like 10 days and that didn’t help.

These days I’ve been getting more pain from my prostate so I’ve thought more about it. I can see 2 theories for our prostate case:

  • drastic changes in DHT making us more susceptible to bacteria and therefore developing prostatitis. There are reports of people in this forum that got helped and cured by antibiotics. Even solonjk just said that his prostate massage + heavy antibiotic cocktail improved his prostate symptoms.
  • drastic changes in DHT causing prostate shrinkage and prostate cell apothesis, causing the inflammation without bacterial component. This second hypothesis is the one that noone wants to believe, because it’s a bit hopeless. Some people get prostatitis when starting propecia, others get it after leaving. I only stayed for 4 days so the beginning and the end symptoms kind of overlap. From day 1 I felt a tingling in the top of penis and the typical testicular pain. After I quitted, testicular pain resolved but prostatic and perineum pain came creeping in. This pain quickly reached a high intensity and after some weeks became more bearable, although still present and annoying. I took hormonal drugs like Testosterone, Nolvadex, Arimidex, HCG… and I think the symptoms were different when I took these, i.e. a bit better. So is it simply a hormonal problem? It never resolved 100% for me, so I’m inclined to say no. Furthermore my hormones are back to normal but I still have prostatitis. It makes me remember of that british doctor who told me that some people take Propecia and end up with a chronic pelvic pain.

Sorry for the wall of text, but I wanted to organize my ideas and share them, and even discuss them.

For me I’m going to the doctor tomorrow and I’m willing to try again the antibiotics route, again. Cause I have no money to fly to california and try the stanford protocol, and no money to run around europe getting strenuous prostate massages.

#4

I have also been battling prostate issues since fin. For me primarily a dull ache at the base of my penis, and a near constant tingling at the back of my testicles. My GP grudgingly diagnosed it as prostatitis and put me on 28 days of Bactrim. I have about a week to go. The tingling seems to be much less but not gone, so I’m not sure if it is a placebo effect or if I’m actually getting better. The Bactrim has been kinda tough. It’s rough on the stomach and lower intestines. Anyways good luck and let us know what your doctor recommends.

Found this good overview on prostate infections, it’s not overly optimistic though:
emedicinehealth.com/prostate_infections/article_em.htm

#5

Couldn’t take bactrim, because I started getting skin reactions.
Great, and my prostatitis is back with a vengence.

If I consult a doctor he tells me that I don’t have prostatitis because they don’t find bacteria and so the only thing he can give me is alpha-blockers (don’t help me) or saw palmetto.
Haven’t tried saw palmetto but it might make me worse if this prostate pain is caused by hormone deregulation. Funny thing I’ve noticed is that most people here get the prostate issues AFTER they quit fin and they say that they were good up until a few days AFTER quitting fin.
Actually for me, I had testicular pain when on fin, and after I quitted the testicle pain subsided in 2 days and the prostate pain came slowly creeping in, so it might have to do with the huge flow of DHT coming the prostate way.
I don’t know what to think anymore. I get a 24/7 perineum/prostate/penile pain which is preventing me from living a normal life. I’m considering everything, even flying to see the greek doctor in my vacations. It’s been 1 year now and if anything I’m worse.

#6

Hope things can turn around 4days, but, whatever you do… don’t touch saw palmetto.

#7

I strongly suggest you look in to CP/CPPS…

This site is very knowledgeable…

chronicprostatitis.com/myoneuropathy.html

#8

CP/CPPS…
As I see it, the problem here is that we don’t know if this is the cause, or hormone imbalance, or bacteria. Antibiotics do seem to work for some people here, and I guess most of these didn’t even culture any bacteria.
The problem with CP/CPPS is that you won’t find a practicioner in your town that will do this for you. Outside that, I don’t know how to use any of the trigger point release theory. So in my opinion it’s a dead point at the moment that I can’t pursue no matter how many fcking articles I read about how great a group of people think it is.

It would be better if everyone here would say that antibiotic helped them, or if everyone said that antibiotic did not help. But with mixed reports, I have to pursue both ends, which sucks.

#9

Hi 4days,

I read your story and I think we are very similar!!
You can read mine and youll see I had good results with CIPRO, but its very interesting that 2 weeks ago I did a new check at a urologist,
and he made a normal ultrasound where he state: your prostate look very normal…more like very small one, its about 10cm!!

I dont think we can have atrophy! It cant be this, because I took just 1.5mg of this drug, would be a miracle if its doing that at this low amount, also on this same visit the urologist made a transrectal check with a hand, and said looks kind of softer then at other, and was a bit painful also. So my thinking is that there is something going on down there, I plan next to do a sperm culture in a good lab to check for a bacteria or virus, we must have something down there…

Did you had some other symptoms?! Also, what is you sex drive now…?!

Also very important experiencing a pain, means just one and only one thing…INFECTION
having atrophy on parts of the body is always possible, there are even people born with this king of problems, but this NEVER cos pain

And we also know that healing from a chronic infection is a VERY hard, especially when is at a closed space.
Ill gave you a example on this, my father is a otorinolaringologist, and his main part is sinusitis, infection on this closed bones at our face
and this are very hard to heal. If the doctor dont know what he is doing, and the patient is not giving effort to heal, might end up with acute sinusitis, which can not be treated by antibiotics, basically the antibiotics will make it worst(to overgrow) and this is the point where my father kicks in…he is a surgeon and makes a procedure where thrw the mouth(under the leaps) goes inside this bones and cleans them also leaving a lot of anti inflammatory drugs on the way out. The patient is taking anti inflammatory drugs for a prolonged time(while they wait for the body to make epitalization ) usually corticosteroids .

So if someone can make this in the prostate gland would be the best…but till now its not possible(or no one has try this because its a gland) also prostatitis its usually present at older people and some unlucky guys like us:( so no one care that much i think…

The procedure fallowed by the greek doctor its very realistic, also the part that he has: Can be done just by me!
its sounds very realistic to me cos its damn important not to over do ur self with antibiotics, especially not with wrong one…