While prostatitis can be caused by infection or injury, it has been noted that some cases have nothing to do with the prostate gland at all. That is why treatments that target the prostate or assume some underlying infection are completely ineffective. For example, prostatitis treatment that targets infection will in many cases show no improvement. When this happens, and as the pain persists, both doctors and patients may be at a loss for the underlying condition.



For years, doctors were confounded by what seemed to be a very well known set of symptoms: difficulty urinating, accompanied by pain in the groin, pelvic area, and genitals, that did not respond to any treatment and revealed no obvious underlying pathology. Cases like these piled up, and along with some other diagnoses such as interstitial cystitis (also known as Painful Bladder Syndrome) there appeared to be no obvious reason for the pain and discomfort that seemed to take over the lives of those suffering. Other diagnoses seemed to be centered around the pelvic area, the bowels, and the rectum. Again, multiple diagnoses were made, but the condition did not respond at all to treatment, and no underlying cause could be found for the pain being reported by the patients. read more →