Patient's question:
Recently, I've been experiencing frequent urination and a feeling of incomplete emptying of the bladder, along with pain in the scrotum that radiates to the lower abdomen. When I went to the hospital for a check-up, they diagnosed me with prostatitis. What are the best methods to treat prostatitis?Doctor's answer:
The etiology of prostatitis is complex, especially with chronic prostatitis showing diverse symptoms, obscure causes, and difficult diagnosis. Moreover, medications often struggle to reach the affected area, making it easy for prostatitis to persist and recur repeatedly. Adopting a combined treatment approach of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, along with physical therapy, can yield satisfactory clinical outcomes. Specifically, treatment should be based on test results and the nature of prostatitis to determine sensitive medications, adequate dosage, and a course of treatment. At the same time, selective physical methods such as microwave, shortwave, guided fusion, multifunctional, and injection therapy should be used in combination. It is recommended to promptly visit a professional urological hospital's prostatitis specialty for follow-up to identify the specific cause.