by dmcff » 07 Aug 2018, 01:58
This is a remarkable story. Also, I recognise some things from personal experience: the initial emphasis on "prostatitis", the PSA test, the biopsy (which I have to confess I chickened out of). After about a year, though, I began to lose sight of the urologists, and the hospital tests and MRI scans I had led to a diagnosis that was a lot less definite and more ambiguous. The author is right that "CPPS does not lend itself to traditional, off-the-shelf medical treatment. Urologists can save your life if you have cancer, but are largely helpless when it comes to a little-understood, multifactor condition like CPPS."
It's curious that the article seems to draw an equivalence between "chronic nonbacterial prostatitis" and CPPS. As far as I'm aware, CPPS is not a form of prostatitis, but rather a pelvic pain syndrome that can be triggered by prostatitis but is not necessarily linked to it.
2014 Anal fissure
2015 CAT, EUA, sigmoidoscopy, 2 MRI
2016 Pain severe then moderate to low
2017 Moderate pain
2018 Physical therapy, pain management
2019-20 Living with it
2021 Still AF
2022 Therapy, meditation
2023 Onward, up
2024 CT scan