UCPPS - Prostatitis, Interstitial Cystitis Forum

In response to Boulder's question about primary and secondary endpoints, you had to have at least a 6 point decrease in the NIH-CPSI questionnaire. (find it at http://www.ucpps.men/1/ ) This is a complex assessment that is a quality-of-life measure and grades how much pain, how would it be to live w...

I had posted a reply months ago touting my success with amitriptyline. It went away. I decided to try nortriptyline, a cleaner metabolite and it helped better but not until I added pregabalin/Lyrica. I'm now taking 25mg. of nortriptyline and 50mg. of Lyrica 3 times a day. Lyrica has a short half-lif...

Well it's good to know that CPPS REDUCES your risk for depression. Weird stats from a uro journal. The incidence of major depression in the general population for men is 7% vs. 5% of CPPS men in study. In women it is 12% in general population versus 5% in the study. Where did they get these patients...

As a prostate cancer survivor who underwent a robotic radical prostatectomy in June, 2007 THEN developed chronic pelvic pain, I can tell you this is bogus. I never had pain prior to my surgery. Another member of this forum had radiation treatment for prostate cancer then developed CPPS. Ask the wome...

Here's an interesting article which theorizes that the limbic (emotional) lobe of the brain is both receiver and transmitter/facilitator of pelvic pain messages, causes hypersensitivity and reinforces the current psychosocial/meditation/relaxation approach here: Med Hypotheses. 2007;69(2):282-6. Epu...