Family History Argh!

[CppsDad]

So far he is fairly reluctant to talk about the issue, or even think of the possibility that he has CPPS. I really hope he doesn't, but the odds aren't in his favor. He has testicular pain, exactly how my chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome started. He saw the GP today, and was given anti-inflammatories for a few weeks. I doubt anti-inflammatories will do anything other than hide the symptoms, although he is convinced the doctor found the problem and fixed it. I don't like to be a doomsday predictor, so, as posted many months ago, I'm staying kinds of hands off until asked for advice.

I am like many of you: I wish I had someone tell me what treatment options to try 4 years ago. But for some reason, my brother is not. I think this is a hindsight thing.
Grrr!

Mike

[conradin]

Perhaps we need to start a poll to see if chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome is family related.

[CppsDad]

I think twins share many personality traits, as well as similar muscular features. That would certainly seem to make a twin more susceptible if his brother was a chronic prostatitis / chronic pelvic pain syndrome sufferer. I'm sure genetics can play parts in this too, in that we can be genetically predisposed to have certain anatomical traits, or psychological traits (especially if raised in the same environments).

[treynor33]

Highly unlikely. Ask him if he had pain and other symptoms like yours. Chronic bacterial prostatitis is usually almost symptom-free.

I understand the scepicism. I always have been too, once I learned more about this crap. However I talked to him again last night, and here is what he says. About 6-8 times over a 20 year period he would have symptoms similiar to a bladder inefection and have trouble urinating etc. Uro always did a culture and it always came back dirty. He would put him on Cipro or in the early days some other abx he can't remember, and after a week he was all good again. No pain down the legs, back, testicles etc. This started when he was about 45 and ended when he had his prostate removed at 65 due to prostate cancer. Now he never had a sit down job during that period. So maybe it was muscle related and he just never aggrivated it all day like I do sitting here in front of my computer.

He is totally amazed with my troubles and can't understand it like most people. But because he had some similiar troubles at least he can understand some of what I am going through.

[webslave]

That's interesting, because that does sound like real chronic bacterial prostatitis, which is, as I said, fairly rare. Typically there is not a lot of pain, but instead occasional UTI-like episodes which are totally aborted with antibiotics. The chances of him having that and you having CP/CPPS must be very small.

[treynor33]

Yeah that is why when it first came on, exactly like his always did, I was rather confident that it would subside in a week or so like his. That is what confuses him. Mine started very similar to his suddenly one night but never totally stopped. And why I stayed on ABX a lot longer than I should have (like most of us I guess). I suppose I was just the LUCKY one with the muscle issues instead of the infections