Hello All,

New to the forum here. Thank you all for sharing your stories; your journeys in dealing with these chronic symptoms is an amazing display of strength. I am looking for some guidance. Randomly, after one night of intimacy with my wife, I awoke with symptoms of Urinary Tract Infection. Not sure if it was the sex or the peloton bike, but it felt like a UTI so I treated my self with Cipro x 5 days with improvement, but then got worse when i stopped. So went to urologist, clean urine dip and culture, diagnosed with Prostatitis and was given Ceftin (cefuroxime).

After 2 weeks of treatment and marked improvement in symptoms, I had one beer. This triggered my symptoms for few days then resolved and I finally felt cured after 3 weeks of antibiotics. I felt healed...until I decided to have a margarita last week. This really triggered symptoms and i'm still dealing with the aftermath, still feeling the burn of the tequila, despite a month of antibiotics. I have also been taking Vitamin C and Zinc, which I am going to stop as it may be exacerbating my symptoms. I am hoping this will all resolve with time

Will also try Quercetin and Olive leaf extract and diet modification (basically following interstitial cystitis diet)...any other recommendations?

Thank you

Is it even prostate related?

I’ve been suffering fir years and it’s getting much worse.

In my opinion it will go away or it won’t.

Don’t waste money on supplements and don’t take
harmful antibiotics with no sign of infection.
It’s stand Urology Protocol because they don’t know
what else to do.

Thank you for your reply. Yes it is because it was getting worse and worse, feeling toxic, until i started the antibiotics. That made a world of a difference. Now just some lingering gnawing pain. Hope it improves with lifestyle change.

Lifestyle changes can make a big difference. As I was told years ago, alcohol and caffeine do not cause prostatitis but they are like throwing gas on a flame. It makes the symptoms worse. Once you determine what you can and can’t do it might resolve itself. Best of luck.

This is what I did. Cut out all caffeine, alcohol, all drinks except flat water, spicy foods, most spices in general, no acidic foods (as per interstitial cystitis diet); I went completely plant based diet. Only then did I improve to about 95% of normal. Still working on the other 5%, I have great days and then not so great days, I think it varies based on my daily diet.