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Painful urination. Two rounds of antiobiotics and no change.
Caucasian male, 24 years old, 5'10", 168lbs. Generally healthy with no history of major health issues.
• Recently been traveling extensively within the continental United States for work.
• Painful urination, occasional shooting itchiness/pain through shaft of penis, but mostly the tip. Woke up with cloudy, occasionally off-white discharge. Clear discharge through the day.
• Doctor was convinced it was an STD, despite my skepticism. Received shot for gonorrhea, and took doxycycline for 2 weeks. I was disciplined with the regimen and finished all of the antibiotics.
• Discharge stopped, symptoms did not.
• Irritation has migrated to anus/rectum in conjunction with same irritation in penis. Visit E.R. once more and the doctor thinks it's a prostate infection. Get a prescription for Ciprofloxacin and, again, take all of the antibiotics on schedule.
• Symptoms appear to subside for a few days, but slowly return. New symptom: Ache in right side of pelvis, similar to the after effects of getting hit in the testicles.
I'm at my wit's end with this. What can I do?
• Recently been traveling extensively within the continental United States for work.
• Painful urination, occasional shooting itchiness/pain through shaft of penis, but mostly the tip. Woke up with cloudy, occasionally off-white discharge. Clear discharge through the day.
• Doctor was convinced it was an STD, despite my skepticism. Received shot for gonorrhea, and took doxycycline for 2 weeks. I was disciplined with the regimen and finished all of the antibiotics.
• Discharge stopped, symptoms did not.
• Irritation has migrated to anus/rectum in conjunction with same irritation in penis. Visit E.R. once more and the doctor thinks it's a prostate infection. Get a prescription for Ciprofloxacin and, again, take all of the antibiotics on schedule.
• Symptoms appear to subside for a few days, but slowly return. New symptom: Ache in right side of pelvis, similar to the after effects of getting hit in the testicles.
I'm at my wit's end with this. What can I do?
I am sorry to say that prostate infections often do not clear with just one round of antibiotics. A coworker is going through this now.
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