Chronic Prostatitis . . Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) . . Cancer Of The Prostate.
August 8th
It's interesting the way things happen almost in unison. They say "trouble comes in threes".
I've recently been giving a young man on-line medical advice concerning a possible "prostate situation" - as he called it - that he may be suffering from. Then, along came two more prostatic disease situations encountered today.
The first was this forty-something year old man. He suffered a low-grade, nagging pain in his perinium - the area that is between the anus and the scrotum. There was associated pains occassioned in both testes, with straining, before he is able to pass urine and even at that, the urinary stream is poor and it breaks and dribbles.
All these had been on now for several months.
I concluded that he may have Chronic Prostatitis.
Another likely diagnosis of course is a Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) which simply put, is a progressive enlargening of the prostate gland which happens not to be cancerous, hence, we say it is benign.
I placed him on prolonged antibiotics therapy. No investigations needed, at least for now.
The second case was a colleague of mine's dad. I didn't see the poor dad myself but only learnt that he had to be taken to the Teaching hospital for an MRI to investigate the possibility of secondary, metastatic spread of the Prostate Cancer he suffers from.
I have been aware that he suffers this disease for a while now, one time he having to undergo surgery and then commencement of hormonal therapy.
It's interesting the way things happen almost in unison. They say "trouble comes in threes".
I've recently been giving a young man on-line medical advice concerning a possible "prostate situation" - as he called it - that he may be suffering from. Then, along came two more prostatic disease situations encountered today.
The first was this forty-something year old man. He suffered a low-grade, nagging pain in his perinium - the area that is between the anus and the scrotum. There was associated pains occassioned in both testes, with straining, before he is able to pass urine and even at that, the urinary stream is poor and it breaks and dribbles.
All these had been on now for several months.
I concluded that he may have Chronic Prostatitis.
Another likely diagnosis of course is a Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy (BPH) which simply put, is a progressive enlargening of the prostate gland which happens not to be cancerous, hence, we say it is benign.
I placed him on prolonged antibiotics therapy. No investigations needed, at least for now.
The second case was a colleague of mine's dad. I didn't see the poor dad myself but only learnt that he had to be taken to the Teaching hospital for an MRI to investigate the possibility of secondary, metastatic spread of the Prostate Cancer he suffers from.
I have been aware that he suffers this disease for a while now, one time he having to undergo surgery and then commencement of hormonal therapy.
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