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Posted 5/15/2011 9:10 PM (GMT 0)
Obviously, both conditions suck but being a Chronic Prostatitis sufferer I would make that trade.

It seems that Prostate Cancer has some effective treatments, and mortality is pretty low.

Chronic Prostatitis on the other hand ruins your quality of life, and there are no treatments available
Posted 5/16/2011 12:52 AM (GMT 0)
>>Chronic Prostatitis on the other hand ruins your quality of life, and there are no treatments available<<

do they ever remove the prostate for a chronic condition like yours?

Posted 5/16/2011 6:12 AM (GMT 0)
Bet you wouldn't, thats the kind of statement that can never be proven, there's a line I like to this effect, You bulls..t your friends and I'll bulls...t mine, but lets not bulls...t each other !
Posted 5/16/2011 6:30 AM (GMT 0)
Have to agree with logo on this one, if this thread is actually for real, which I doubt. Getting you belly cut open, and having the surgeon reach deep inside your pelvis and pluck out the ole walnut and sew the pieces back together so you can pee, and then dealing with the side effects of surgery--ED and sometimes urinary incontinence--without even knowing if this did anything to stop the cancer until years have passed . . . well, it takes quite a bit to be worse than that, and that's just for us guys like logo and I that are doing well.
Posted 5/16/2011 11:35 AM (GMT 0)
I agree with UC21 that chronic prostatitis can be worse than PCa as far as symptoms are concerned. However, it can be effectively treated with protatectomy as F8 suggested -- but not that often.

Prostate removal is a serious step, and you need to be really really sure there is no other treatment. If I believe your posts in the UC forum, you have had this condition only for about 2 1/2 months, so isn't it too early to be regarding your prostatitis as chronic?
Posted 5/17/2011 3:23 AM (GMT 0)
I have had prostatitis since i was 19.....

it went away for a few years, but now is back for good.

Removal of the Prostate is NOT an option for my condition.... There is no evidence that it helps.

According to my doctor nothing is even wrong with my prostate. He touched it, and said it felt normal. The issue he thinks is with the bladder neck muscles.

There are zero treatments available... Literally the only thing my urologists said I can do is take Saw Palmetto...

Alpha Blockers initially worked, but eventually their effect wears off.

I have Ulcerative Colitis, and that condition is not as bad.

 

Posted 5/17/2011 4:50 AM (GMT 0)
If there is nothing wrong with your prostate, should you be calling it "prostatitis" (defined as inflammation of the prostate)? I agree that in that case prostate removal will probably not help. A quick google threw up this related condition:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_cystitis

Guys here have suffered from bladder spasms which can be debilitating. Maybe your condition is more akin to that? If so, you may get some better directed answers by searching for that term.

Post Edited (Piano) : 5/16/2011 10:53:36 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 5/17/2011 10:48 AM (GMT 0)
UC21- So I guess you are 21 yrs. old, as Steve mentioned elsewhere, impressive that you do know something on this stuff...that's all I am going to say about that.
Posted 12/21/2012 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
Although it is obvious enough, I can't help observing that Alex PhD is here flacking for a particular supplement and has to be considered a spammer.
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