Was in the emergency room last night.
My prostatitis is getting out of control. It had settled into a pretty consistent level about 5 months ago, and had been the same that whole time. It was very bothersome and interfered in my life quite a bit, but I had gotten used to it in a way and had accepted it. I stopped seeing a urologist several months ago after taking antibiotics because they didn’t help.
About 3 days ago I suddenly started having even more extreme frequency of urination, difficulty urinating, and pain in the perineal and urological regions. It has gotten progressively worse the last two days, to the point where I can barely pee at all. The whole fucking area is blocked off-- even the rectum… I can barely even let out gas… It takes me about 2-3 minutes to get a stream going, and it’s so weak, and I am tearing up my muscles down there forcing the urine out. Plus I have to go every 30-60 minutes.
I had been doing prostate massages up to a month ago, but had stopped because they were ineffective. I went back there and felt the prostate last night and the thing is huge compared to before. I am afraid very soon, within the next few days, I won’t be able to pee at all.
In the emergency room they gave me levaquin for 10 days, and despite the warnings about quinolones, I don’t know what else to do but take it. Took a double dose in the emergency room. They sent me home and told me to come back if I can’t pee at all and they’d install a catheter. The urine tests were totally clean, so it’s not a UTI.
On Monday I’m going to have to find another urologist to manage this condition. If they can’t manage it, I may be looking at surgery. Already doing research about Greenlight Laser Prostate surgery. It’s expensive and the potential complications are incontinence, impotence, and other things, plus the surgery only works for about 5-10 years because the fucking prostate just grows back… so you have to get it done every few years…
Of course all urologists can do otherwise is prescribe antibiotics or Proscar. If antibiotics don’t work, I may have to go under the knife. Since I don’t have a job I’m hoping the urologist I see can help me get on social security and medicaid at least. I wish I could just end it all, but I’m not in a good position to do it right now.
I keep praying to God to stop torturing me and just let it stay the way it is, but things just keep getting worse. I don’t know what I did to deserve this after 15 doses of this stuff. 7 months ago I was such a healthy person and just had a little bit of hair loss. I am sobbing all the time thinking about what is going to happen to me. If you’re reading this and are deciding on whether or not to take this drug, STAY THE HELL AWAY. STAY THE HELL AWAY DON’T TAKE EVEN ONE PILL