My total stupid story and Proscar

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#1

I want to take you back to 2002, I had a very elaborate spines surgery to replace a worn disk in Germany. So brilliant was it I was on top of the moon and just needed some troublesome haemorrhoids resolved for life to be “the ultimate”.

In 2004 I entrusted myself into the hands of a colorectal surgeon, and paid him privately almost £1600 to do the job. His first attempt at a heat treatment was a failure he followed this up with injections, and by some amazing stupid error, he injected the chemicals and bacteria from my gut into my prostate. Hence I now have chronic prostatitis and all its nasty side-effects. Plus of course my haemorrhoids are still not resolved, but a large lawsuit is on its way to the surgeon.

I have tried everything that I know, and everything recommended by people on board’s as far as I know. This final fling with Proscar was thought up by my specialist who has very little idea where to go next. I took Proscar for two months and then the side-effects were so appalling I’ve been back to my doctor and refused to take it any further. My doctor said come off it for two weeks and see how you get on. I’m having some withdrawal symptoms, I think, the nausea and dizziness is gradually going away plus the headache. I am delighted to find this board and hope to learn a lot that will help me.
Best,
Jacques :slight_smile:

#2

Welcome Jacques and thanks for your story. Sounds like you have had to experience what a lot of us here have also experienced; a moronic doctor.

Really this groupn is here for people who have used finasteride medication (mostly for hairloss) and ended up with severe side effects and complications from their usage. However bad your problems are I would really not recommend finasteride as the solution. It has caused me and other severe problems. Further to this there are people who believe finasteride is the direct cause of their prostatitis so I would really recommend you go nowhere near this drug.

Having said this, you may be able to gain some useful knowledge regarding prostatitis from this group. There is also much discussion on our old Yahoo group which may well be worth your time looking through. Best of luck…and please don’t let finasteride add to your issues.

#3

Hi Finsides,
How illogical it appears to be to prescribed finesteride for the treatment of Jaque’s prostatitis when this entirely separate group of drug users (for hair loss) find that its use triggers side effects which include symptoms of Prostatitis? This certainly prompts me to question the wisdom? of Western medicine.
Martin

#4

I quite agree Martin. Clearly this group is rather partizan as most of the members here have suffered severe adverse effects from finasteride, while most of the medical community and the drug’s users remain unaware and disbelieving of these issues.

But ultimately finasteride is prescribed for BPH, an enlargement of the prostate, and I fail to see how it is going to help with an infection of the prostate. How is a drug prescribed to lower DHT and/or combat BPH going to help a bacterially or non bacterially infected prostate? I really don’t understand…but then Western docs all too readily reach for the prescription book without much thought.