March 2, 1996

All it takes is good laboratory analysis of pathogens and a simple drainage procedure done on the prostate every other day by a physician. Dr. Feliciano, Jr. defines a cure as

A)  No more pathogens seen in prostate/seminal fluid culture
B)  All symptoms are permanently gone
C)  Stop taking antibiotics

Your prostatitis is caused by pathogens hiding away in the prostate. One primitive way of viewing the situation is that the prostate is like a sponge with many small chambers where bacteria can hide. Taking antibiotics without draining the prostate of its fluid does not allow the antibiotic to enter the prostate. Worse, if a small amount of antibiotic does get to the bacteria sites, there can be insufficient antibiotic to kill the bacteria and the bacteria then grow to become insensitive to it. This means that there is a chance that you will be making the antibiotic ineffective for future treatment when you eventually have proper drainage done to cure your prostatitis.

Proper drainage of the prostate is like squeezing the sponge. It forces the fluid out so that it is replaced with new fluid containing the antibiotic. There are also blockages that occur in the ducts that keep antibiotics from reaching the pathogens and this will be described in future postings.

I learned more in 60 minutes with Dr. Feliciano, Jr. about the prostate than months of Internet searching, reading urology textbooks, and speaking with urologists had accomplished. Just one diagram he showed me of the prostate cleared up questions I had about its anatomical design and enabled me to clearly see how prostatitis is caused and how proper treatment clears up the problem. (I will be posting my own rendition of that diagram so you can see for yourself.)

Finally, as a U.S. citizen let me say that I am embarrassed at the present inability of the U.S. healthcare system to treat this trivial disease. I have come across some early studies that may partially explain this ignorance and will be presenting my own ideas on how our Western cultural attitudes toward disease may have been thwarting proper care in this area.

Finally, let me say that prostatitis has been easily cured for decades in the Philippines and Dr. Feliciano, Jr. was shocked to recently receive an Internet connection and find that this disease was essentionally considered non-treatable by the rest of the world.

Dave Trissel
Austin, Texas