A 33-year-old member asked:
What kind of medicine is best for a man with chronic prostatitis?
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Dr. Steven Tuckeranswered
Internal Medicine 28 years experience
Tough problem: Initial therapy is long term antibiotics (1 month). If still no success one can consider medicine to shrink the prostate (finasteride/dutasteride) or herbal programs w saw palmetto and beta-sitosterol. Anti-inflammatories may help too.
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