I have had intense prostate pain for three years, I've been in the hospital twice from overwhelming pain. I see a pain specialist, and a pain psychologist . Relaxing my abdomen muscles into the pain has made things worse. I have found that tensing my muscles around the prostate actually reduces the pain. I don't why this is so or how long it will work but so far it reduces the pain the side effect is that it causes discomfort from my muscles being jammed up all day. But the result is less pain.
I guess my first question is how do you know it's your prostate that the pain is coming from? What do the doctors say and what procedures have you had?
I was diagnosed with chronic pelvic pain by my doctor, or prostatitus, and the pain management doctors concures
, but I have wondered why my symptoms differ from what other people say about there's. Something doesn't add up , still trying to figure it out.
Floyd,
Tensing the muscles sounds like kegel exercises which are also called pelvic exercises and are sometimes used as a therapy for pelvic pain.
According to this article CPPS (chronic pelvic pain syndrome) is a form of prostatitis.
http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/finding-help-for-pelvic-pain-a-patients-story
It sounds somewhat like what you are expeienceing.
If nothing else pans out I would seek a consultation with a neurologist. They are experts on the spine and also on pain. I had flare ups in my right thigh for years (felt like my thigh was being stabbed with a burning knife) and my neurologist instantly identified it a meralgia peristatica, which is a nerve from the spinal chord to the thigh being trapped by the pelvis. A good neurologist knows how all the nerves and muscles interact, and the excitation of nerves are often what causes us to experience pain.