Well, the local urologist who performed the TRUS responded to further inquiry like this: Good questions, but I don’t have good answers. Not sure what’s causing the pain, and the seminal vesicles look normal, so not sure why the ejaculation problem results from, except to note that it’s common with folks with chronic pelvic pain.
And this is what poor Pavlos who is probably so sick of typing 100 e-mails a day after a long hard day of fingerblasting dudes in the anus had to say:
[i]As I have said before, urology is still in the Dark Ages when it comes to chronic prostatitis. The vast majority of urologists (at least 95%),
will not even be able to diagnose it correctly - I am speaking from a 20 year experience.
Your symptoms are typical of chronic prostatitis; If you want to diagnose it correctly and then proceed with the treatment, you should visit me in Greece.
Otherwise, I cannot tell you from afar if it is chronic prostatitis or not.[/i]
I am so anxiously awaiting some feedback from you brave guys who are making the trip…
If I told you what I really thought about you and your BS self-treatment Id probably get banned for overuse of a lot of very harsh words. I dont want to do that, nor do I want to speak directly to you at all on here until you start to see some sort of sense. Lets leave it at that.
my biggest issue in here is that solan has not been regularly updating his recovery at all as much as he is arguing and selling the treatment. It seems like every post “I’m almost done treatment, and then I have to wait to see how I recover”…
I appreciate every post (in this thread) from solan, but the skeptic in me sees a guy who has been around the world spending countless money in search of a cure and every time he finds a new one he says “this is the real one, everything else was a mistake”.
I don’t mean to offend…I just want to know about results and it doesnt seem that there are many yet, just an idea that sounds good “on paper”. Also the anti inflammatory properties of whatever antibiotics you’re on all month have to be taken into consideration as far as how you’re feeling currently.
He said it could take another 2 and a half months after treatment for the prostate to heal properly. But yea I get where you’re coming from.
I’m going largely by what the doc is saying to me. And that is that judging by my symptoms, he is 100% certain that I have prostatitis and 95% sure he can fix it. That plus from what I can tell he’s a pretty well established and respected doctor. I’d take his word over anyone.
Then there’s the guy who recovered almost instantly on these forums (even if it didn’t last, im not sure) because he had a prostate massage and he felt it “unblock”.
Also I know for sure that I have prostatitis symptoms even if they appear to be mild. It’s somthing that I thought strongly enough to get checked by three separate Urologists, none of which could even identify a problem even though the symptoms were clearly there. Then there were the initial sever prostatitis symptoms of yellow ejaculate, intense pain and discharge of white pussy stuff when I sat for too long. Also I get twitches in my prostate to this day.
Add to this that I have exhausted 90% of the hormonal avenue - and I’ve spent tens of thousands and 4 years in trying hormonal stuff and other treatments.
So while I admit I’m nervous about travelling that far to see a doc I’ve never met, for the above reasons I’ve weighed it up and think it’s worth the risk of potentially not getting better. Also, even if Solon didn’t get fixed, the fact that the doc said he can fix me, given his credentials, means I would still probably go anyway just on his say so, because nothing else is working.
OK fine. All I want to know now is how is your libido now and how was it during the treatment? Have you had any changes positive or negative with regard to libido? Thanks.
I agree, but he has said that he has an staph infection, and that most of us would not have that… Those who didnt do any hormone modulation would have a much easier time treating.
Interesting find visionquest99. I wonder what bioflavonioids they were referring to. Both quecetin and green tea, which contains bioflavoniods, seem to have helped some people on the board.
One of the authors, Dr. Shoakes, has a website here, but it appears he wont reply to emails. There is a phone number though. He’s based out of Cleveland.
This is what I am trying to understand( or rather having people on this forum understand). Solon is not understanding me when I talk about trans sexuals and girls using Test shots and growing good muscles. But the most important question is that these people suffer as we do if they use fin or 5 AR inhibitors, why?. They don’t have balls, They don’t have prostate. so what ultrasounds they should go for?
When Solon says he has inflammation in the prostate he is right but only 10%. I think we have inflammation in every part of our body. Instead we should go for biopsies for some of the parts of the body.
Yea the transexual thing keeps me awake at night wondering how that could be.
But you’ve also got to keep in mind that the most noticible side effects are very localised - around the genitals. The shrinkage, the lack of erections, the low ejaculation force, the colour of the ejaculation, the puss that comes out sometimes, the frequent urination, the watery ejaculate, the pain in the tip of the penis, the pain around the whole genital area.
This is very localised. Sure there is also brain fog and general weakness, but more often than not, if guys go on testosterone they will still be able to put on 10kg of muscle if they hit the gym. I know I can.
However this doesn’t explain the transexual thing. Might be worth someone asking the doc about this?
Ok, there was no inflamation, but did you discuss your abnormal size with the doctor? If so, what did he have to say about the size? If you say an average prostate size is around 28cc or so, then yours would be 50% the size of a healthy mans. Did he completely dismiss this?
The doc literally said “I’m very happy with this…” He was expecting 20-30cc, but was happy with the size, indicating that he didn’t think that was a medical issue or the reason for my troubles.
But it possible to have too small a prostate? Could one shrink their prostate via finasteride so much that it screws up T to DHT conversion (still an issue for me as of last testing)?
Regardless, I guess it does not necessarily matter what size it is, only if there IS inflammation, and that is subject to interpretation. Something’s responsible for me having to take 10-12 trips to the pisser every day, for my dull ache down there when I sit, and occasional radiating pain, the E.D., the stinging sensation I felt when ejaculating inside girls whilst hopped up on Cialis, and of course the fact that can barely feel those drug-induced erections, which yield reduced “squirt power” and reduced money shots.
It seems to be just another clueless doctor’s opinion.
I tried googling a normal size and most website’s show 20cc as a normal size. I couldn’t any medical studies, otherwise I would have posted it.
I can’t find anything that indicates that 14cc or even close to it, is a normal size for the prostate. This is almost like the mentality that a higher body temperature indicates problems, but a lowered one means nothing.
How can a prostate that is at least 40% smaller than what is considered a normal size not have any impact on the body. It would certainly explain your need to piss more and less ejaculate.
I’ll try to do more research later this week. Maybe we can learn something from the men on the prostate forums. Could it be as simple as the drug did what it was designed to do and that is the cause of the problem?
