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Medical Forum / General / General / March 2004urinary tract parasite or bacteria
Chronic urethritis, cystitis, epidydimitis, prostatitis lasting 8 months. Sharp stabbing pains followed by dull ache for several days, followed by a period of feeling fine. Some minor discharge. Strangely I can have pain in my bladder and none in testicles, then in a space of 10 minutes have it reversed to pain in testicles and bladder feels 100% fine. It was sexually transmitted, the girl has similar symptoms. Doesn't respond at all to: tetracycline doxycycline ciprofloxacin metronidazole ampicillin Several chlamydia tests and urine cultures negative. Doctors advice is to give it time, after 8 months it's getting worse and I'm done giving it time. My thoughts are mycoplasma but I can't get a test done for it in my area and no doctor's have any knowledge of it. Now I'm wondering if it could be parasitic because of the semi-cyclical nature of the pain? Are there parasites that can infect the urinary tract like this? I'm going to ask for a cystoscopy, what else can I have done? > Chronic urethritis, cystitis, epidydimitis, prostatitis lasting 8 months. > Sharp stabbing pains followed by dull ache for several days, followed by a [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Several chlamydia tests and urine cultures negative. Doctors advice is to > give it time, after 8 months it's getting worse and I'm done giving it time. You might want to try (and/or finding out what the tests are for gonorrhea) http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/norfloxacin_ids.htm 400 mg q12h 28 days All patients with gonorrhea should have a serologic test for syphilis at the time of diagnosis. Patients treated with norfloxacin should have a follow-up serologic test for syphilis after three months. http://www.unm.edu/~shc1/gonorrhea.html Gonorrhea cannot be diagnosed or detected by a Pap smear or urinalysis. Special tests must be done in order to detect the bacterial organism responsible for the disease. Antibiotic treatment varies depending upon where the infection is located. In addition, persons with G.C. should contact the men or women with whom they have had sexual contact, who should in turn be examined and treated. Depending on your age, you might, after the antibiotic treatment ends, want to get a DRE and PSA test. Why? because of a thread I just read on the prostate newsgroup where a (younger) man self-treated himself for what he thought was prostatitis for 2 years, then his doctor treated him for infection for 2 months and since then has been diagnosed with widespread prostate cancer. J - not a doctor - no flames- thank you ! > You might want to try (and/or finding out what the tests are for gonorrhea) > http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/norfloxacin_ids.htm 400 mg q12h 28 days I've researched all the bacteria this page says it treats, none of them fit my symptoms, especially the timeframe of the infection, most of these clear up faster and are susceptible to the antibiotics I've already taken. > All patients with gonorrhea should have a serologic test for syphilis at the > time of diagnosis. Patients treated with norfloxacin should have a follow-up > serologic test for syphilis after three months. I have very minor discharge which isn't consistent with gonorrhea. I've had 3 or 4 gonorrhea tests, and 2 or 3 syphilis tests. > http://www.unm.edu/~shc1/gonorrhea.html > Gonorrhea cannot be diagnosed or detected by a Pap smear or urinalysis. Special > tests must be done in order to detect the bacterial organism responsible for the Every clinic I've been to tests for it specifically through urine. > Depending on your age, you might, after the antibiotic treatment ends, want to > get a DRE and PSA test. > Why? because of a thread I just read on the prostate newsgroup where a (younger) > man self-treated himself for what he thought was prostatitis for 2 years, then > his doctor treated him for infection for 2 months and since then has been > diagnosed with widespread prostate cancer. Cancer doesn't spring up overnight, this literally did. > "J" <MainFrame@example.org> wrote in message > > You might want to try (and/or finding out what the tests are for gonorrhea) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > my symptoms, especially the timeframe of the infection, most of these clear > up faster and are susceptible to the antibiotics I've already taken. That's what they told me also. I had to take the above for 6 months to finally get rid of the infection. I'm suggesting 28 days because that's what the web page suggests for prostatitis. J Did you have it cultured? Culture of seminal fluid is sometime necessary. The most common cause of epidydimitis and prostatitis is plain old E. coli. Other STD bugs can also do it. But they are very hard to kill once it gets into the prostate, due to the blood prostate barrier. It sometimes takes months of antibiotics, and people run out of patience. The new doctors figure that anything that can't be killed with cipro or one of the new fancy quinalones is not worth working on. The old gold standard prostatis treatment was 200 mg of Trimpex(trimethoprim) and 100 mg minocycline, twice a day for 3 months. Trimethoprim is one component of Bactrim/Septra-- the one that gets into prostate best. Minocycline is far better at this than tetracycline, as well. SBH > Chronic urethritis, cystitis, epidydimitis, prostatitis lasting 8 months. > Sharp stabbing pains followed by dull ache for several days, followed by a [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > I'm going to ask for a cystoscopy, what else can I have done? |
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