Feeling really unwell

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Posted 30 Nov 2023 at 20:42

Long story.
6 years ago had raised PSA, 17.4 and feeling unwell. Trip to Urology was next. Up shot was that MRI showed legion and follow up biopsies showed no cancer. Treated for infection with month of ciproflaxin.
since then I think I had a couple of flare ups and again treated with ciproflaxin.

start of October this year, suddenly came down really unwell and quickly developed swelling and warm to touch redness in perineum area which spread to buttocks.
went to A&E and was again treated with ciproflaxin. This seemed to clear up but a week after finishing the antibiotics I suddenly became really unwell again.
urine showed an infection and was given a month of doxycycline.
towards the end of this course, I again suddenly became unwell- this was brought on immediately after doing aa big s*** - vomiting, high temperature, feeling like I was going to pass out. Back at doctor and have been prescribed a different again antibiotic. Get it tomorrow, so do t know name yet.
feeling really rough and have constant nagging throb / ache in bladder area.

waiting on ‘urgent’ referral to Urology to result in an appointment.

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Posted 30 Nov 2023 at 21:47

Evening mate,

I'm sorry you're feeling so dreadful. Hopefully, the antibiotics will do the trick, and it's nothing more serious.

Best of luck

Adrian

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Posted 01 Dec 2023 at 01:01

It does sound like it could be prostatitis.

If this antibiotic doesn't fix it, I think you should ask for referral back to urology. Ideally, you want a prostatitis specialist, but they're rather thin on the ground. Only about 20% of prostatitis is bacterial, and you should really have the bacteria cultured so an appropriate antibiotic it's sensitive to can be prescribed, rather than trial and error use of antibiotics which is how antibiotic-resistant bacteria come about, and there aren't many antibiotics which can get in to the prostate.

Many antibiotics also have an anti-inflammatory effect which can give short term relief even if they can't kill the bacteria, or it may be there aren't any bacteria involved but some other cause of inflammation.

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Posted 30 Nov 2023 at 21:47

Evening mate,

I'm sorry you're feeling so dreadful. Hopefully, the antibiotics will do the trick, and it's nothing more serious.

Best of luck

Adrian

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Posted 01 Dec 2023 at 01:01

It does sound like it could be prostatitis.

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Posted 07 Dec 2023 at 21:49

Sorry to hear your plight, I am surprised how you got through various sessions of Ciprofloxin, I had it last year for 2 weeks and it almost killed me, I still have health issues from it now. I feel it carries health risks, but I know the community maybe divided on that.

Sadly, I feel that NHS Urology departments are poorly trained, I hope you can get some answers soon.

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Posted 08 Dec 2023 at 12:41

Hi Deek

You had a biopsy 6 years ago and may be you should consider another biopsy. I suffered from prostatitis for many years. Antibiotics did nothing for me and during a serious flare up my urologist tested for bacteria in my prostatic fluid with negative result. I had a needle biopsy which involved taking a number of random samples which can easily miss early stage cancer cells. Ten years after the first biopsy, when my PSA began to rise, I had an MRI assisted biopsy which found cancer, I had prostatectomy 12 years ago and my prostatitis symptoms disappeared. If you had a 'blind' (ie without MRI) needle biopsy six years ago it may be worth suggesting to your urologist to carry out another biopsy. In my case I think the 'blind' needle biopsy may have missed the cancer. Just a thought.

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