urinary tract parasite or bacteria

inabadway said:

Chronic urethritis, cystitis, epidydimitis, prostatitis
lasting 8 months. Sharp stabbing pains followed by dull
ache for several days, followed by a period of feeling
fine. Some minor discharge. Strangely I can have pain in
my bladder and none in testicles, then in a space of 10
minutes have it

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transmitted, the girl has similar symptoms. Doesn't
respond at all to:

tetracycline doxycycline ciprofloxacin metronidazole
ampicillin

Several chlamydia tests and urine cultures negative.
Doctors advice is to give it time, after 8 months it's
getting worse and I'm done giving it time.

You might want to try (and/or finding out what the tests are
for gonorrhea)
rxlist.comnorfloxacin ids.htmOpen ↗ 400
mg q12h 28 days All patients with gonorrhea should have a
serologic test for syphilis at the time of diagnosis.
Patients treated with norfloxacin should have a follow-up
serologic test for syphilis after three months.

unm.edugonorrhea.htmlOpen ↗ Gonorrhea cannot be
diagnosed or detected by a Pap smear or urinalysis. Special
tests must be done in order to detect the bacterial organism
responsible for the disease. Antibiotic treatment varies
depending upon where the infection is located. In addition,
persons with G.C. should contact the men or women with

Depending on your age, you might, after the antibiotic
treatment ends, want to get a DRE and PSA test. Why? because
of a thread I just read on the prostate newsgroup where a
(younger) man self-treated himself for what he thought was
prostatitis for 2 years, then his doctor treated him for
infection for 2 months and since then has been diagnosed
with widespread prostate cancer. J - not a doctor - no flames-
thank you !

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You might want to try (and/or finding out what the
tests are for

gonorrhea)

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rxlist.comnorfloxacin ids.htmOpen ↗ 400
mg q12h 28 days

I've researched all the bacteria this page says it treats,
none of them fit my symptoms, especially the timeframe of
the infection, most of these clear up faster and are
susceptible to the antibiotics I've already taken.

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All patients with gonorrhea should have a serologic test
for syphilis at

the

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time of diagnosis. Patients treated with norfloxacin
should have a

follow-up

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serologic test for syphilis after three months.

I have very minor discharge which isn't consistent with
gonorrhea. I've had 3 or 4 gonorrhea tests, and 2 or 3
syphilis tests.

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unm.edugonorrhea.htmlOpen ↗ Gonorrhea cannot
be diagnosed or detected by a Pap smear or urinalysis.

Special

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tests must be done in order to detect the bacterial
organism responsible

for the

Every clinic I've been to tests for it specifically
through urine.

Quoted message said:

Depending on your age, you might, after the antibiotic
treatment ends,

want to

Quoted message said:

get a DRE and PSA test. Why? because of a thread I just
read on the prostate newsgroup where a

(younger)

Quoted message said:

man self-treated himself for what he thought was
prostatitis for 2 years,

then

Quoted message said:

his doctor treated him for infection for 2 months and
since then has been diagnosed with widespread
prostate cancer.

Cancer doesn't spring up overnight, this literally did.

inabadway said:

"J" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

You might want to try (and/or finding out what the tests
are for gonorrhea)
rxlist.comnorfloxacin ids.htmOpen ↗
400 mg q12h 28 days

I've researched all the bacteria this page says it treats,
none of them fit my symptoms, especially the timeframe of
the infection, most of these clear up faster and are
susceptible to the antibiotics I've already taken.

That's what they told me also. I had to take the above for 6
months to finally get rid of the infection. I'm suggesting
28 days because that's what the web page suggests for
prostatitis. J

Did you have it cultured? Culture of seminal fluid is
sometime necessary. The most common cause of epidydimitis
and prostatitis is plain old E. coli. Other STD bugs can
also do it. But they are very hard to kill once it gets into
the prostate, due to the blood prostate barrier. It
sometimes takes months of antibiotics, and people run out of
patience. The new doctors figure that anything that can't be
killed with cipro or one of the new fancy quinalones is not
worth working on.

The old gold standard prostatis treatment was 200 mg of
Trimpex(trimethoprim) and 100 mg minocycline, twice a day
for 3 months. Trimethoprim is one component of Bactrim/Septra--
the one that gets into prostate best. Minocycline is far
better at this than tetracycline, as well.

SBH

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Chronic urethritis, cystitis, epidydimitis, prostatitis
lasting 8 months. Sharp stabbing pains followed by dull
ache for several days, followed by a period of feeling
fine. Some minor discharge. Strangely I can have pain in
my bladder and none in testicles, then in a space of 10
minutes have it

Quoted message said:

transmitted, the girl has similar symptoms. Doesn't
respond at all to:

tetracycline doxycycline ciprofloxacin metronidazole
ampicillin

Several chlamydia tests and urine cultures negative.
Doctors advice is to give it time, after 8 months it's
getting worse and I'm done giving it time. My thoughts are
mycoplasma but I can't get a test done for it in my area
and no doctor's have any knowledge of it. Now I'm
wondering if it could be parasitic because of the semi-
cyclical nature of the pain? Are there parasites that can
infect the urinary tract like this?

I'm going to ask for a cystoscopy, what else can I
have done?