I hope you guys can help.  About three months ago I woke up with  a
slight burning  on urination and soon thereafter some lower back pain
when I visited the doctor he said there were small traces o fblood in
the urine and said I may have passed a stone or have prostatitis due to
the excessive frequency to urinate and slow urine flow.  For the next
three months I was miserable with bladder discomfort, frequent
urination (every hour) and slow urine flow.  I was put on Cipro and
Doxy which did nothing and then Levaquin and prednisone which finally
seemed to help quite a bit.  I had a pelvic CT (normal), PSA test
(normal), Ultra sound (normal) and a test to se if I was emptying my
bladder (which was also normal).  The only test I did not have was the
cytsoscopy whihc I simply did not want to do for fear and also because
I have heard it can exacerbate things and really can not help but rule
out bladder cancer oor mass whihc would have shown up on the ultra
sound or Pelvic CT and my URO agreed if I was seeing some improvement
probbaly not necessary or very helpful.

Here is my delimma, I still have bouts of frequent urination and
changes in my urine flow  - some days its good and the very next day it
can be a dribble.  Also when I wake up I notice my urine flow is slow
and improves as the day progresses.  I take Proata-Q daily and watch my
diet (I dont drink or smoke or have coffee - never have.  I cut out all
sodas and never like spicy foods).

I nver experienced the golf ball feeling or pain that folks associate
with Prostatitis it is almost exclsuively urological (frequency and low
flow).

Any ideas why the urine flow changes from day to day and is mostly
restricted in the morning hours when I awake???  Do others have this
problem once the acute stage is over (for me the first three months)
and then settles into a more subtle but chronic condition.

The only othe rthing I want to mention that I have not seen in other
posts is that once this thing started I noticed my stools were actually
softer, lighter colored, and not well formed.  Is this a symptom as
well of prostatits or something else??

I would vbery much appreciate comments mostly on the erractic surinary
symptoms why one day frequncy is minimal and out put is good and the
next day I am urinating every 2 hours and the flow is a dribble.

Thanks for listening

Glen