subject: Prostatitis Cure - Finding the Cause of Your Chronic Prostatitis [print this page] Prostatitis Cure - Finding the Cause of Your Chronic Prostatitis
The most troubling issue for a Chronic Prostatitis patient is to identify the actual pathogen(s) causing their condition. Every time antibiotics are prescribed, the chronic prostatitis condition shows some improvement yet, in many cases, Doctors will announce non-bacterial chronic prostatitis as a diagnosis simply because they can find no causative bacteria.
Of course, once the antibiotics course ends, symptoms usually come back, and are often worse than before.
Doctors, (General Practitioner or Uro-Genital Specialists) usually do just one test, an EPS (Expressed Prostatic Secretions). And it is this test that usually fails to reveal any resident pathogens, not to mention that the EPS itself can be very painful.
But there is another test that can be more revealing. Yet few Doctors do it, and even requesting it to be done may take some convincing of your Doctor. It is simply a fresh sample of ejaculate that is sent for Laboratory analysis, specifically to see what pathogens can be grown/identified. In order to achieve the best result, you should have been off antibiotics for between several weeks to a month.
It is not uncommon for an EPS to never reveal anything, but for an ejaculate sample to start providing real progress for a Chronic Prostatitis sufferer, by at long last providing a name or clue to an exposed pathogen.
So, the next time you have a Chronic Prostatitis "flare-up" make sure you request that your Doctor has you do an ejaculate sample to be sent away for analysis. And perhaps, at last, you may be lucky enough to put a name to the pathogen(s) which is causing all the trouble. If that does happen, then be aware that there are cutting-edge Chronic Prostatitis treatment methods available to locate those pathogens and destroy them. You can read about them below.
