Injections into Prostate

My husband suffered for years with chronic prostatitis. He had to be on antibiotics or he would come down with a fever and flu type symptoms. In doing research about chronic prostatitis I found this site http://www.pioa.org/prostatits.html. This doctor is in Ventura, California. We flew into Santa Barbara and drove to Ventura. My husband had had chronic prostatitis for so many years he had multiple calcifications and his prostate was very enlarged. In fact he had had a TURP two years before that probably was not necessary because of the swollen condition of his prostate.

We went to Dr. Bahn for three injections, two weeks apart, in that time the size of his prostate decreased 50%. He went off all antibiotic after the second injection and has remained off them. The injections were mildly uncomfortable but not painful. In two weeks the constant pain on sitting etc. was gone. After two months he felt some discomfort return so we went for a 4th injection. The injections and ultrasound were very reasonable in price.

My husband has remained symptom free and has not had to take antibiotics for a full year. He is now having a slight relapse and has had to go back on to antibiotics. We have an appointment for another injection but he remained symptom free, antibiotic free for an entire year. Dr. Bahn had one other patient that had to return a year later and then did not have any further trouble. I think when there are calcifications present they act as areas that hide bacteria. This has been such a help to my husband I wanted others to know about this. So if drainage doesn't seem to be helping there is another treatment to bring relief. I have no idea why more urologists do not do this procedure. Some I am sure are afraid of doing things outside the "norm" in such a suit happy world but it does bring relief.

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