Iodine and prostatitis??? Maybe

Symptoms Physical
#1

Hello,

I have been suffering from prostatitis for about a year now. I noticed it last march when my urine flow was diminished and my libido as well. I was prescribed 3 rounds of antibiotics which helped for a short time but the symptoms returned shortly after. I have been reading this forum on and off for the last couple of months and after testing my hormones and my thyroid and all the doctors not understanding even after mentioning to them that I took finasteride in the past. I still cannot believe that the standard of care for prostatitis is to pump you up with antibiotics in hopes that the anti-inflammatory agents in the antibiotics can cure the condition…

I tried saw palmetto which did help with the urine flow but the libido was still very low. Then I tried prostaQ, but I decided to stop as it had saw palmetto in it and after reading this forum it seemed counter productive to continue to take it.

I came across a thread about Iodine and the prostate and how it needs it to function properly. I also read about some users who claim they have cured themselves with it. I am not making any claims yet, but I have been taking the following for the past 15 days:

3 drops of 2% Lugols iodine in the morning
1 vitamin C 1000mg (afternoon)
1 selenium 100mcg (afternoon)
1 magnesium citrate 200mg(afternoon)
1 milk thistle 200mg (afternoon) I take this because my bloodwork showed slightly elevated bilirubin levels.

The doses they recommend on some of these forums were higher than this but I decided I would start out with this to take it easy on the liver and not experience any heavy detox symptoms.

I also take about 2 or 3 epsom salt baths during the week, I was thinking of cleansing my liver with it but I am mentally preparing to do it.

I can say that I do feel a stronger libido (about %30 +) and my semen is not as clumpy as before(whiter too). Not sure if these results are going to be short lived but I will continue with the Iodine regimen and see what happens.

Anybody else has had success with iodine here? any suggestions or comments

Good luck to all!

#2

Interesting.
About the urine flow, is it improving as well?

#3

My urine feels improved even before I started with the iodine. My worst flow was about a year ago, when even a family member heard me peeing from outside the bathroom and told me to go see a doctor.

Since I had prostatitis I took various treatments for it throughout the year, the most improvement I found was in urine flow but with libido and semen symptoms I did not get much success.

My urine flow ranging from ( good 10 - 1 bad)

my worst was pretreatment…I would say around a 3 ( there was not much pain just decreased flow, low libido and clunmpy semen)

now I am around a 6 or so…I pee easily but I feel I don’t have that pressure I once had before

#4

What treatment has improved your urine flow? I’m 7 years with very low flow and I found nothing that improves the situation. The doctors says I have a chronic abacterial prostatitis. Exams (urines, sperm, ecography, cistoscopy) are all negative. No drug helps me (in these years I’ve tried all the imaginable… from naturopathy, omeopathy, acupuncture, drastc diets, benzodiazepines, antibiotics, alphalitics… all useless…).

Some doctors say that I have to undergo a tuip (Transurethral incision of the prostate) :frowning:

#5

I find that working out helps out too. Stress could also make you feel worse and working out keeps stress in check.

Not sure about the urine flow, having flow issues for 7 years sounds brutal. Try to get your body in shape, it can only help your overall health in the long run.

Many doctors believe that prostatitis is an autoimmune condition…have you had any other symptoms related with an autoimmune disease? celiac, diabetes, psoriasis. etc… on the other hand there seems to be many men that took propecia and have developed prostatitis.

In my family I am the only one that has taken propecia but two of my younger cousins have had prostatitis in the past and they have never taken propecia. Although, I got prostatitis about a year after quitting propecia and my libido was extremely low after that event. I talked to both of my cousins and one says that stress triggers his prostatitis and the other says that smoking marihuana triggers his. They say that their libido didn’t change much or change at all.

There is so much data out there that a correlation exists between everything you type into the search bar. It is up to you to decide what to believe and I think nobody knows for sure what really works.

for example, I just typed this “autoimmune and propecia” and got this:

hairsite2.com/library/abst-168.htm

Good luck in your search!