I don't want to go into overload over this so don't think this is some plea
etc.

I have had CP diagnosed for some years now and have actually had it, now
that I know a name for it, for 10 years I suppose, that I can remember the
symptoms. Didn't get it diagnosed till around 98 though.

Went through the usual - strong doses of stuff that meant you couldn't go
out in the sunlight and that in a country where the sunlight is as strong as
it gets in the world.

After finding that the drugs, which didn't cure naturally, were working less
each time I went through them and what the side effects of the doctor
prescribed stuff were, I decided to do without them entirely, grin and take
anti inflammatory pain relievers when necessary. Eventually I found Saw
Palmetto and started on that which appears to help somewhat but not a real
lot.

About the last couple of months I have had a low grade pain, something
which, when I am busy, tends not even to be noticed by me but at times I am
not busy, is always reminding me it is there. Again, nothing really to worry
about so I didn't. Last night, though, something very unusual happened. I
have a recliner and I was reclined in it a little watching a movie and in
the last week, the ache in the left arse cheek has been pronounced to the
point where I have had to be a regular on the pain relievers. That happens
now and then and that wasn't the unusual bit. While in the recliner, I
shifter my legs, crossing them and felt a squishy sorta feeling that I can
only relate to you feels something like when you have a heat pack that is
still in GEL state and you move the contents of the pack under tour
fingers - excepting that this was happening between the legs. Now, note it
didn't HURT at all, was just something I have never had before and made me
wonder about as it caused the pain to get a bit worse but not a lot worse. I
thought it may be just that the prostate was under pressure so went and had
a pee. Wasn't a lot there and it didn't change things a bit.

Sound familiar to anyone? I thought it may be just swelling of some sort as
I have been getting a lot of feet swelling when sitting down for more than
about 5 minutes and it hurts in the feet when I walk for about 30 seconds.
Also started getting swelling that hurts in the right knee which had to be
reconstructed in 1990 and hasn't given me any trouble for about 10 years. Is
this normal with the progression of CP?

Thanks for any help.