How long does it take to cure prostatitis?

Prostatitis is a disease that middle-aged and elderly people are more likely to suffer from. It can cause symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain during urination, which has a great impact on life. Prostatitis is very harmful and not easy to treat. Many patients have been ill for a long time and the condition has not been completely resolved. Therefore, the time required to cure prostatitis has become the most concerned thing. So, how long does it take to cure prostatitis? Let's take a look below.

How to treat prostatitis

1. Systemic antibiotic treatment: Systemic antibiotic treatment has a certain therapeutic effect on patients with early prostatitis who have not formed obstruction. Long-term use of the drug will cause drug resistance, damage the liver, kidney, and gastrointestinal functions, cause dysbacteriosis, and increase the chance of endogenous infection.

Type 2 intraprostatic injection method: The old-fashioned intraprostatic injection method has a certain effect on some patients with stubborn prostatitis, but it has high technical requirements, cumbersome operation, painful feelings for patients and can easily cause damage to the prostate. At the same time, it has no effect on inflammation of the seminal vesicles, vas deferens, epididymis and other parts.

4. Repeated prostate massage: Repeated prostate massage is very helpful in preventing prostate duct blockage, but it will not have much effect on patients who have already formed obvious abscess blockage and calcification. At the same time, since it cannot remove pathogenic bodies, it can only be used as an auxiliary treatment.

Type I often presents with sudden onset, characterized by systemic symptoms such as chills, fever, fatigue, and weakness, accompanied by perineal and suprapubic pain, and even acute urinary retention.

Type II and Type III have similar clinical symptoms, mostly with pain and abnormal urination. Regardless of the type of chronic prostatitis, similar clinical symptoms can be manifested, collectively referred to as prostatitis syndrome, including pelvic and sacral pain, abnormal urination and sexual dysfunction. Pelvic and sacral pain is extremely complex. The pain is generally located above the pubic bone, lumbosacral region and perineum. Radiating pain can manifest as pain in the urethra, spermatic cord, testicles, groin, and inner side of the abdomen. It radiates to the abdomen and resembles acute abdominal pain. It radiates along the urinary tract and resembles renal colic, which often leads to misdiagnosis. Abnormal urination is manifested as frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, sluggish urination, bifurcated urine stream, dripping after urination, increased frequency of nocturia, and milky white secretions from the urethra after urination or during defecation. Occasionally, sexual dysfunction may occur, including decreased libido, premature ejaculation, painful ejaculation, weak erections, and impotence.

Type IV is asymptomatic.