Prostatitis

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> First off, prostatitis and epididymitis are not the same thing.

That's probably why they have different names.

However when the cause is an infection, one can lead to the other.

> I've worked as a nurse and lab tech for an urologist the majority of

> my adult life,

Well, your urologist is dead and shockingly wrong. Based on my

experience with urologists, that is not surprising.

> and I have never seen epididymitis treated with antibiotics

Epdidymitis ARE ALWAYS supposed to be initially treated with

antibiotics, in that it is most often caused by an infection.

My source for that is the guidelines of the Center for

Disease Control -- you can't get more mainstream than that!!!

See http://www.epididymitisfoundation.org/cdcguidelines.php

Among sexually active men aged <35 years, epididymitis is

most often caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis)

or Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae).

For epididymitis most likely caused by gonococcal or chlamydial infection:

Ceftriaxone 250 mg intramuscularly in a single dose

PLUS

Doxycycline 100 mg orally twice a day for 10 days.

For epididymitis most likely caused by enteric organisms,

for patients allergic to cephalosporins and/or tetracyclines, or

for epididymitis in patients aged >35 years:

Ofloxacin 300 mg orally twice a day for 10 days

OR

Levofloxacin 500 mg orally once daily for 10 days

But some epididymitis is believed to be an autoimmune

disease, or to start as an infection, and become an autoimmune

disease based on an imperfect response to the infection.

But none of that explains low dose naltrexone.

Is low dose naltrexone supposed to BOOST the immune

system -- which would make it useful for infections?

Or is it suppose to help in autoimmune diseases, whcih I

would think means it suppresses the immune system?

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