Yesterday I saw a very good, and respected urologist/surgeon. He's great in his field, and a former Mayo doctor/surgeon. I was seeing him simply for peace of mind on the color of my slightly off-white semen and to have my prostate routinely checked out. I saw him two years ago in the early, horrible stages of CPPS. Yesterday, I checked out perfectly fine as I suspected.
However, as he was asking me questions, he told me bluntly that I should keep doing my PT exercises and stretches because he finds that a lot of guys who have CPPS, it comes back sometimes worse than it was. Then he continued to say (after I had just told him I'm 99% recovered and feel great) that I should keep in mind a lot of guys never get back to perfect.
WTF?!!!
Why would you even plant that seed in someone's mind??? I pushed back and said "Well, that's not going to happen with me." I could tell he didn't believe me. I took a deep breath and told him flatly that it won't come back because I've figured out that it is mostly psychosomatic and I've cracked the code on it. He pushed back and said, "Oh, no. It's not mostly psychosomatic."
I wasn't going to argue with him because indeed, I'm sure most guys do come back to him over and over because they think he's going to fix them. I was just amazed he didn't get it.
Needless to say, I just let him have his say but shook my head to myself.
Guys - DON'T listen to the naysayer doctors. They are human beings, they don't know everything (though some think they do). They see people with problems all day so even when you say you're fine, they're mind is focused on treating a problem. Some will try to find one if there isn't one. If he would have said those words to me 9 months ago, I would have walked out of there flaring like a mofo. It has become increasingly apparent to me that you CAN NOT fathom the complexities of this condition until you've either been through it yourself, or have been consistently working with people who have it and you have an open mind to the facets of it's complexity (such as my PT does).
You will recover from this. The only reason you wouldn't recover 100% is if there is still some sort of stressor factor you're not dealing with.
There are probably exceptions for a few people who have had serious traumatic injury to the pelvis, such as a car accident, or a serious fall, etc. But if all tissue heals within 6 months, and there is not mechanical or kinesiologostic aggravator, it's all just malfunctioning neuropathways after that.
