Levofloxacin for prostatitis
Common Questions and Answers about Levofloxacin for prostatitis
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When I visited the Urologist last week he said that he thinks I have prostatitis, so he prescribed 3 weeks of Levofloxacin and then another blood test. He thinks it is prostatitis because I have pain in the area beneath my testicles when I sit and have some trouble with steady urine flow.
Since I received the PSA score I've done many hours of reading about prostate cancer and prostatitis.
Why were the medications which include azithromycin 1g OD, doxy 100 mg. for 5-7 days and levofloxacin 500 mg for 10 days failed to cure us? Thanks for all the support. God bless.
I had no signs or symptoms. 2 weeks after this I was diagnosed with Prostatitis and put on antibiotics (Levofloxacin). 3 weeks after encounter I tested negative for STD's. It is now 7 weeks after encounter and I am still battling the prostatitis. I guess I am having a hard time believing that I developed Prostatitis right after my sexual encounter and it has nothing to do with an STD. Would the fact I am on antibiotics at the time of my STD testing have produced a false negative?
I also tested ejaculate and they found klebsiella pneumonia so i took levofloxacin (500mg daily), and now it s 6th day i started with levofloxacin. My symptoms are still present, i also feal pain sometimes in lower abdomen, simptoms come and go during day and i cant stand it anymore. What should i do, can this be because or iritation with hand antiseptic or klebsiola or some other bactery (hidden syphilis) or even virus (herpes, hpv...
0 gram dose of azithromycin or doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 7 days are recommended therapy for NGU. Levofloxacin will probably work however and is a good drug for prostatitis.
Hello,
I had a relatively risky (protected vaginal, protected anal, unprotected oral sex) sexual encounter close to eight weeks ago. A couple days later, I felt a burning in the area of my urethra just behind my intreameatus -- and my intrameatus as well. Additionally, the area around the urethral opening of my penis was red.
The redness and burning lessens when I do not ejaculate (up to now, this has been limited to masturbation). It increases immediately after I ejaculate.
Chronic groin pain on the left side for the last 2 years. The pain radiates to the left testicle and left leg. The pain is constant and dull through out.. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Diagnosis: All STDs Negative, No Epididymitis, No Prostatitis. Urine and Semen culture normal. Urine Frequency is Normal. Scrotal ultrasound scanning revealed mild inguinal adenopathy (swelling). Urologist did physical examination and ruled out inguinal hernia.
My doc thinks its prostatitis but I am still afraid. I had prostatitis before but it seemed different. I also got blood tested for HIV and Syphillis and urine tested again for any bacteria. All negative.
My question is whether I could have had clamidia and it could still be around despite the negative tests. Is there something else I should get checked for. How can you really tell prostatitis from an STD? I have a regular partner and am scared to death she will get this.
He says that I should continue with the Levofloxacin for the remainder of the course. Then I have to wait another 2 weeks because any further tests within that period would be a waste of time. After the 2 weeks I have to do a full lot of tests to find out which particular bacteria I have.
He says that I should not worry as there is nothing life threatening about it and they will have some antibiotics somehewere that will be able to clear up this sorry episode.
One thing though he did right is that he prescribed me a 500mg a day Levofloxacin for week and it almost instantly helped my condition. Although he was a quite friendly doctor, I felt I was more informed than him on STI’s given my research and thanks to this forum archive database.
I decided to visit Zack medical as I was informed they are specialists in STI’s and Dr Zack is quite knowledgeable and they run the best pathology tests in town.
He said he didn’t see anything wrong with my meatus and prescribed me levofloxacin for 8 weeks. After 8 weeks I did not notice that big of a difference so I took it for 12 weeks. Now I feel better than I have but my meatus is still raw on the left side, pain in my tip comes and goes, and the dysuria seems to be gone but I still burn in tip sometimes. I’m posting links of my pics of my meatus. My skin is rigid on the left side and hasn’t grown back. This has been going on for 5 months now.
ive taken pain relievers so the pain subsided and I went to the hospital for examination, ultrasound and ct stonogram was conducted the result I got I have a enlarged prostate grade 2 kidneys are normal, so the urologist gives me treatment, levofloxacin 500mg/day for 14 days, after medication my prostate is still swelling because of poor urination,and the doctor given me a different antibiotic cefixime200mg/2xday for 1 week, after medication the stream of my urine is still poor.
Of these, I would recommend that you not use ciprofloxacin ( a favorite for prostatitis therapy) but instead use a related drug such as levofloxacin which has better activity against chlamydia, just in case this is related to your recent chlamydial infection (I doubt that it is but if we can cover both bases, why not). Furthermore, given your history, it is possible that you may need to be treated more than once to resolve this problem.
I have had treatments of doxycycline (30 days), metronidazole (10 days), levofloxacin (7 days), and most recently azithromycin (for pneumonia that they couldn’t detect, 6 days).
It gets semi-better initially with the antibiotics, but always comes back. I’m still having issues, and I honestly feel like I’m going crazy. The doctors think I’m nuts, and they don’t know what else to do. I’m beginning to feel the same way...
Hello, it s been more than 4 months since i had protected sex with a prostitute after which i applied hand anthyseptic all over a glance of my penis (i did this on airport before my flight and left it for a couple of hours before i came home).I v been through hell since than, the next day i felt urgent urinating, my penis was inflamed and red, especially tip of my penis was red. After a week or so i even felt pain in my lower abdomen and burning in urethre.
Still had pains urologists then gave me metronidazole just in case, pain still lasted, went back to urologists and he gave me levofloxacin in case it was prostatitis, pain continued, I went and got tested for all 8 stds at the 2.5 month mark again all came back negative.
My questions is what do I have, the pain started at the tip of my penis and left after the first test for a few weeks.
Have you been diagnosed with syphilis through a blood test?
I have had intermitent senses of fullness in the perineum since as well. I recieved 10 days of levofloxacin - and started to get better but then went back to before. I recieved three weeks of doxycycline to no effect. After two months I went to a private std clinic while on travel and had a battery of tests done including the 28 d HIV, urine g+c, urine hsv, syphilis, hep b and c. I had pain in the penis when recieving these tests.
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