Hi. I've had a pain in my lower abdomin for almost six months now. It
started as a dull pain and has progressed to a sharp pain that tends
to get irritated when I exercise (walking up hill) or stretching the
lower abdomin. I've had mri's, ct scans, bloodwork, urological and

By what mechanism does prostatitis cause lower back pain?   It seems
(to my lay-knowledge of anatomy) that the prostate is the wrong side
of the lower colon to cause back pain through physical pressure alone.
So I imagine there is some sort of biochemical interaction.  And yet

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Everyone has his own experience, beliefs and way of conceptualizing
the causes of his prostatitis.
I am 28 years old. I've been suffering from a painful chronic
prostatitis for 2 years now, though I had an infection for more than 2

It is true.  I have been off antibiotics for four years, if you excuse
my ear-nose-throat guy for having put me on them for three days late
last year, and that was all that I allowed.
For as long as I was going to be on antibiotics, I was going to have