Group,

New to this site but wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this.
About 2 months ago I started having a slight throbbing pain in my urethra,
along with a semi-frequent need to urinate, for the first couple of days I
thought it was just something weird, so I called the doctor and he
prescribed sulfur pills and an anesthetic for a UTI, about a week later the
problem was still persistent, I called the doctor and he put me on Cipro.
Here's were it gets interesting, after taking Cipro for about 1-2 weeks I
noticed a major improvement in the condition, but then the day of
Thanksgiving it came back fiercely, I think it may be due to the fact that I
was just ending my Cipro prescription. I then decided to go see a urologist.
After performing an exam he decided what we were dealing with is a form of
prostatitis, which can be really anything since it's one of the most
difficult problems to diagnose. He put me on minocylnine (sp?) for awhile,
which didn't do anything, he changed that to augmentin since we wanted to
see if penicillin would do anything, on the augmentin I noticed a slight
improvement, but he wanted to go a step beyond that, so we switched to
metronidazole, which I stayed on for 1 month, I just talked to him yesterday
because the symptoms started coming back and we decided to switch me over to
a different prescription, as the thought was perhaps I might have contracted
a staph infection that found it's way into the urethra and has been causing
these problems. Right now I just started on rifampin and dicloxacillin,
there are case studies where doctors have found that some forms of chronic
prostatitis are caused by staph infections, which I thought was interesting,
but not outlandish. We covered quite a few different background facts, like
I only have 1 wife and we both are not flirting around, I do work for a
company that invests highly in outsourcing work to India, thus we have a lot
of contractors from India coming in. I for one don't think that I caught it
from any single person, but the weird thing is a fellow co-worker got it
(very severally at that) about a month or 2 before he left the company, I
took over his job and ended up getting something similar. My rational mind
is telling me it's probably stress related as I find that if I don't get
enough sleep and the pressure from work starts compounding the symptoms get
irritated. However, I also wonder if there is a correlation here, perhaps I
did contract some sort of staph...thing that found it's way into the
prostate, I mean it's entirely possible, shake a hand, open a door whatever.
I'm pretty meticulous when it comes to physical cleanliness so I do make
sure to wash up after using the restroom especially in a public restroom.

At any rate, long story short. Has anyone seen successful elimination of
prostatitis symptoms by using rifampin along with dicloxacillin?

fellow sufferer.