Any Help Appreciated Please
Prior to Jan 2025 no history of any Urology issues.
Then in Jan 2025, I was diagnosed with Grade 2 Bladder Cancer and the tumour was removed, the following month February I had surgery to untangle a strangulated bowel, which resulted from post operation effect of the Bladder surgery, then to top it all off in March I was admitted to hospital after feeling ill and shivering and after being hospitalised for 4 days on intravenous drips, received MRI Ultrasound and Rectal Internal was diagnosed with Sepsis, Prostatitis, severe inflammation of the prostate.
I was given six week course of Ciprofloxacin.
Thereafter I was prescribed a 6 week prescription of Trimethoprim, and a 4 week prescription of Ofloxacin, urine/blood tests showing no bacterial infections.
However my consultant has confirmed that I almost certainly have CPPS, which may have developed from after the initial Bacterial infection.
So for approximately 1 year now, I have suffered from pain around anus, perineum, penis every day following passing stools.
This ranges from uncomfortable 3/10 pain to nauseating 9/10 on pain threshold and is making my life a misery.
The current medication being used which I have been taking for 6 months now is Gabapentin 6 x 300mg daily, Alfuzosin/Cialis daily, and Lactulose (Stool softener )I have tried a wide range of pain killers without success, I have also tried PT, Massage, Acupuncture, Chiropractor without any success.
Hot baths ease some of the pain, and although I go to sleep with pain (sometimes with hot water bottle around the painful area) every morning after muscles around this area have relaxed no pain/uncomfortable feeling at all, as soon as I pass stool, the pain cycle starts again.
Has anyone else experienced similar experience, and the feeling around anus does feel like the golf ball feeling described by others.
I do not suffer with any urinal issues.
My current Cancer status is clear after the original diagnosis and surgery and I continue to have a cystoscopy on a six monthly basis which I absolutely hate and find very painful.