UCPPS - Prostatitis, Interstitial Cystitis Forum

This story was reported in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I found that it resonated with Dr. Wise's approach with one exception. He advocates resting with the pain where this article speaks of distracting the brain from the pain. Either way, both are advocating interrupting the pain cycle of the...

Just a follow-up to my post recently about Dr. Potts. Just yesterday I received a letter from Cleveland Clinic saying she no longer practices there. The letter said to give Dr. Shoskes a call if you were being treated for prostatitis by Dr. Potts. I'm sorry to see her go. She was very interesting an...

I've been off this board for quite some time as I had been doing extremely well. Of course the condition struck back about three months ago, and so here I am reading the latest posts. As far as Cleveland Clinic goes, I saw Dr. Jeannette Potts in Cleveland a couple of years back. She handles chronic ...

JAF; I did try to up the dosage to 50 mg of Elavil, but I got really bad heartburn (one of the side effects), and it really didn't have the same impact as it did early on, so I gave up. I am going to be talking to my uro tomorrow about some other medications--maybe ultram? Take care--hope you stay p...

I don't want to be discouraging, but I did want to point out that I had almost total relief of symptoms while on the same dosage of Elavil for a period of a month, but when my body adjusted to the Elavil, the symptoms returned. I thought I would offer it just as a caution. I find that when my expect...