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| My Uro told me I had a 40g prostate with some bladder impingement and
that he also saw signs of inflammation when he did the cycstoscopy. As
it happened, the day that I had the cycstoscopy, I was having a very
good day with no BPH symptoms.
wolf wrote:
> I started developing BPH symptoms (urgency, retention, feeling of
> incomplete voiding, etc) last october, I started taking Flomax in
> December after a urine analysis, urine culture, general blood panel and
> a cystoscopy (sp?). The Flomax seemed to help and the symptoms got much
> less.
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> On January 21 I started taking Doxycycline for 42 days as an anti
> malarial precaution for our trip to the Amazon. The symptoms continued
> to grow less and in the first week of February I started having a real
> problem with leakage. I stopped the Flomax which solved the leakage
> problem. Meanwhile my BPH symptoms continue to be much reduced.
>
> I'm thinking that the Doxycycline may have cured an infection that
> wasn't detected by the Uro's tests. Anyone have any experience with such
> a thing? Is it possible? I'd read somewhere that a semen culture should
> also be performed to rule out infection that otherwise doesn't show up.
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> Thoughts?/
>
> TIA
>
> wolf
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