My Story - Pretty bad to pretty okay
TLDR: Experienced Prostate, bladder and pelvic floor pain at 45 years old for the first time in my life for approx. 5 months and things are getting better.
Started Feb 10, 2026 with weird but not painful sensations down below. Woke up the next morning with bladder discomfort and a week stream. Symptoms progressed through week. Testicular pain began. Made apt with GP
Blood test negative for bacteria
digital exam was normal
Blood test was good, PSA, Electrolytes and white blood cells normal.
Doc ordered testicular ultrasound. Found cyst but nothing else.
Ordered STI urine test. Negative.
Put on Cypro for 9 days. No change.
Everything got worse. Started having urine hesitancy. Golf ball in anus feeling and pain. Hurts to sit. Bladder and urethra on fire.
Went to a Urologist. Put me on 30 days of bactrim and alpha blocker. Neither helped. Started taking graminnex. Cut out milk and most other dairy.
We are now in what, April? Symptoms remain. Metal health suffering. Libido gone, ability to perform gone. Painful everything.
Still on Graminnex and still on alpha blocker.
Around May I started to have periods of minor relief with flair dome ups.
Things slowly started to improve to the point where I would almost feel normal some days
In June I was feeling really good so I stopped my Alpha Blocker (it was causing sleep issues and heartburn). Had a bit of pelvic tensing for a few days once the drug was out of my system.
Now I am doing much better, not 100% but good enough that it's not top of mind or bothering most of the time.
Here is everything I did that I am still doing
Cut out dairy and reduced cheese
Cut out hot baths
Taking graminnex twice a day
No idea if any of these above things actually helped or if it just needed to run its course.