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Latest scientific, clinical, practical information and developments in treating the common problems associated with male health and prostate wellbeing.

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There is more to men's health than prostate problems....
if fact, anything prostate related is extremely hard to diagnose and medical treatment may not offering you the answers you are seeking. Prostatitis which is often treated with Antibiotic is only ever 5 -10% bacterial related, and therefore the treatment turns out unsuccessful.

Even than, Antibiotics are sometimes repeated for 6 month or longer...

Having mentioned that, even if unsuccessful, it may have given you are differential tool, by calculating that your problem could be related to some other pelvic problems, which maybe easier to treat...

... not all urination urgency, discomfort and bladder fullness is necessarily BPH or Chronic Prostatitis ..

differential diagnosis has to include: (from a long list)

First is first!

Symptoms for Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) are wide ranging, with some confusion due to possible overlap with other conditions.

Example:

some men report frequent urination and others don't.

Some have sexual dysfunction and erectile difficulties, others don't.

Many men who are told they have prostatitis are misdiagnosed.

Inflammation may be centered in the bladder. This condition is called Interstitial Cystitis, which features painful, frequent urination, although some experts say that only 15 % of men with IC present with frequency and urgency.

Roughly speaking, when cultures are negative, chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) can be described as persistent relapsing pain or discomfort in any of the following areas:

Some of the functional symptoms are:

Other often reported symptoms are:

Naturopath believe that the disease is a generalized, whole-body disorder, not merely isolated to the lower genitourinary tract, seeing Prostatitis or Interstitial Cystitis in a holistic way. It is strongly associated with stress.

The condition is notorious for coming and going.

The pain or symptoms can vanish for hours or days, then return without logical reason.

Some people experience long remissions, which can last months to years.

All this brings us to the main question:

"Is there a common cause for all these symptoms"?

Maybe there is, "Andropause - the Male Menopause"

Andropause is not a clinincal disease, it is a syndrome or a fact of life, and it is a condition everyone should know about, not only men, but women as well. I may even furher better mutal understanding between the sexes,

"Maybe we are from the same Planet after"

There is a lot of media attention about men's health lately, esp. regarding prostate check up's, but nothing is ever mentioned about Andropause, which is probably one of the main underlying causes of prostate probplems and men's health over 50.

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