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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / March 2005Undetected infection??
I started developing BPH symptoms (urgency, retention, feeling of incomplete voiding, etc) last october, I started taking Flomax in December after a urine analysis, urine culture, general blood panel and a cystoscopy (sp?). The Flomax seemed to help and the symptoms got much less. On January 21 I started taking Doxycycline for 42 days as an anti malarial precaution for our trip to the Amazon. The symptoms continued to grow less and in the first week of February I started having a real problem with leakage. I stopped the Flomax which solved the leakage problem. Meanwhile my BPH symptoms continue to be much reduced. I'm thinking that the Doxycycline may have cured an infection that wasn't detected by the Uro's tests. Anyone have any experience with such a thing? Is it possible? I'd read somewhere that a semen culture should also be performed to rule out infection that otherwise doesn't show up. Thoughts?/ TIA wolf My Uro told me I had a 40g prostate with some bladder impingement and that he also saw signs of inflammation when he did the cycstoscopy. As it happened, the day that I had the cycstoscopy, I was having a very good day with no BPH symptoms. > I started developing BPH symptoms (urgency, retention, feeling of > incomplete voiding, etc) last october, I started taking Flomax in [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > wolf It turns that out my BPH symptoms was due to an infection also. I have absolutely no idea how I got one, but that was my diagnosis. My uro put me on Cipro (and Flomax) for a month. Along with Advil (Ibuprofen) to reduce inflammation, no acidic juices (e.g. orange juice), and not more than one cup of coffee per day. Flow has been improving quite a bit after just a day. > I started developing BPH symptoms (urgency, retention, feeling of > incomplete voiding, etc) last october, I started taking Flomax in [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > wolf Wolf: it may be helpful to read this guy's blog...You'll have to scroll down to find the stuff on Prostatitis but it it concise. Lots of other causes, but worth checking it out if you have a few minutes...Something there may be useful, or not?! All the best to you.. See: http://bph-prostate-enlarged.blogspot.com/ >I started developing BPH symptoms (urgency, retention, feeling of >incomplete voiding, etc) last october, I started taking Flomax in December [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > wolf |
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