Dear Seeker of Prostate Health,

If you’ve recently been diagnosed with Prostatitis – or if you’ve been suffering from this ailment for years, possibly without even knowing it – I urge you to keep reading.

Take a look at the chronic Prostatitis symptoms below:

• A sensation of not emptying your bladder after you urinate (Urinary Retention)
• Having to strain to begin urination along with a weak stream, or no stream resulting in an ER trip for a painful Catherization (Blocked Urethra)
• Having to get up several times a night to urinate (Nocturia)
• Urgency to urinate, can’t hold it, leaking
• Dribble after urination
• Penile discharge, pus or blood
• Ejaculatory pain during sex
• Lower back pain or discomfort in the groin area
• Weak, fading erections
• Low libido
• Premature ejaculation
• Frequent anxiety

Sound familiar? Perhaps you’ve consulted a healthcare professional about these symptoms. Chances are; the well-meaning (but ill-informed) doctor prescribed antibiotics as a treatment. But, after countless rounds of popping pill,you’re fed up. Your chronic prostatitis symptoms haven’t improved one darn bit. In fact, the medication actually made your symptoms worse - and took a toll on your immune system!

Well, guess what? Your Prostatitis is not a figment of your imagination. It’s a very real medical condition which, if not treated properly, leads to BPH and cancer, as mine did. Prostatitis is often so disruptive that it can prevent you from sitting comfortably, driving, holding a job, or enjoying sex. It’s a downright miserable way to live. I know, because I’ve been in your shoes. 

Let’s start with the basics. Prostatitis is an inflammation or infection of the Prostate gland, which is located just below your bladder, in front of your rectum. This condition can be brief in duration or long-lasting. It manifests in various degrees of severity which can be easy or quite difficult to treat.  Acute prostatitis is typically an intense “flare-up”, often debilitating, which may be relieved superficially by antibiotics, however prostatitis usually lingers, becomes chronic.  Symptoms of chronic Prostatitis can be none or include urinary problems, erectile problems, and pain during ejaculation, groin discomfort, and pain, among other things.

Prostatitis can lead to a condition called benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). BPH is an enlargement of the prostate that eventually become cancerous if neglected.

• Prostatitis is a disease affecting primarily young men between the ages of 18 and 35, but it can also affect men later in life.  
  
  
• Prostatitis occurs more often than any other prostate disorder, including BPH and Prostate Cancer, affecting an estimated 8 million men in the United States.
  
  
• At least 80% of men who have been sexually active have Prostatitis to some degree, but it is also seen in virgin males.
  
  
• It’s estimated that 40% of visits to American urologists are for chronic Prostatitis symptoms.
  
  
• Prostatitis can be caused by an excessive toxic load in the body, especially in the mouth, muscle strain, sexually transmitted, food/beverage irritations, too much sex after too much booze, unknown causes and combinations of the foregoing known causes.

Prostatitis has not received the medical research it deserves, and sadly, Western medicine provides few effective treatment options for this condition. Despite the fact most experts agree that Prostatitis is a precursor to Prostate Cancer, it’s simply not being sufficiently screened, diagnosed or treated by most doctors today. Famed Stanford Professor and Urologist, Dr. Thomas Stamey MD, calls Prostatitis the "waste basket of clinical ignorance!"  

On the rare occasions that Prostatitis is detected, the first course of treatment is almost always antibiotics, followed by longer, different antibiotics courses.

With an antibiotics regimen, the results, if any, are usually only temporary. Additionally, many health experts have found that prolonged use of antibiotics compromises our immune system and weakens our body’s defense mechanisms. Believe it or not, antibiotics often inflame Prostatitis symptoms instead of relieving them - how’s that for irony?

Later, standard treatments for chronic Prostatitis symptoms include “microwave” heat therapy, prostate reaming, TURP, Green Laser PVP reaming, prostatic abscess drainage, selective antibiotics and radiation. Although they may provide relief to some degree, these invasive methods have been associated with prostate irritation, tissue damage, erectile problems, ejaculatory problems, urinary problems, and possibly long-term prostate damage.

In extreme, painful cases of Prostatitis, a prostatectomy – or the surgical removal of the prostate - may be recommended. This is not a casual decision to make, especially since two common side effects of a prostatectomy are impotence (no erections for life) and incontinence (wearing a diaper). Another truth to consider is that prostate problems can still reoccur despite aggressive treatment. In fact, 35% of men who undergo surgery or radiation for Prostate Cancer require additional treatment within 5 years and 75% within 10 years

Not only that, but you may have noticed that men who have their prostates removed are never quite the same afterwards. Eastern philosophies have believed for centuries, that the prostate is the center of a man’s creative, sexual and physical energy. With his prostate removed, he often looses that special spark of life that made him vibrant, sexual, and alive. Kind of like a candle being snuffed out, if you will. Not a very pleasant thought.

Instead of burning, draining, and snipping your prostate as a means of coping with chronic Prostatitis symptoms, wouldn’t it be better if you could heal it … and restore this powerful gland back to its natural state of healthy functioning?

My name is Dr. Larry Clapp, and I learned the hard way what happens when you ignore the early warning signs of deteriorating prostate health.

For years, my physician had assured me that my enlarged prostate and chronic Prostatitis symptoms were just a normal part of aging. When I asked at every annual exam, what could be done about it, he replied, “Nothing, just normal aging, not a problem”. Then in 1990, an elevated PSA test raised a red flag, and I was immediately sent for a biopsy.

The results of the prostate biopsy confirmed my worst fears. I had the “big C” – Cancer – on top of Prostatitis and BPH!