While the prostate was infected, in trying to avoid sitting on it, and still be able to use the computer, I got a wireless keyboard, and moved the monitor next to the bed. This meant I either had to crank my neck sideways to see, or lie crossways on the bed, I chose the latter. This too was not ideal, since there was a space between the bed and the wall, I set two milk crates atop oneanother to fill it, and piled pillows on them for something to lean against. This worked for a few days I guess, though it was horribly uncomfortable, because my legs were still off the side, pillows under the knees, then something in my leg pulled, or cramped, or something, and the experiment ended.
At that point, and after the urological stuff came up negative, I figured I must have reinjured the disks in my back, from trying to contort myself sideways, I'd injured them when I was 21, and they'd periodically given me trouble over the years, so I decided to see a chiripractor. He got me out of quite a bit of pain, straightened out the pelvis, which helped a lot, and back, but still the PNE-esque (for lack of a better term, and the sake of brevity) symptoms, he also ordered ultrasounds, all normal. At least the feeling of a railroad spike going through the sacro iliac went away, so it's something. The last thing we tried was a decompression machine, maybe would have worked if I had the money for another 15 or 20 treatments, but I simply don't. Was trying to decompress it myself, seated in a chair, and kind of doing dips, I may have made things worse, I thought I should ask here before doing any more, so that's the first question. Some of the excercises and stretches I did may have made it worse too, but I just didn't know what would or would not work, or what I was dealing with.
I stumbled across PNE/PN as a pathology, through a prostatitis site, almost accidentally, I found a site describing it, and it sounded like my symptoms. Poked around a bit more, and found this site, after reading through the info here, I am 99% positive this is what' s ailing me (which was a rather crushing realization btw) at any rate, I'm treating it like it is, unless/until I find out otherwise. Next was to see if any docs in Phx treat it, fortunately, there is one, unfortunately, he's an OB-GYN, so what's a guy to do?
So close and yet so far, life is just so not fair sometimes. Of all the possibilities I've gone through in the last year though, trying to figure out what's wrong with me, this is the only thing that checks all the boxes, every single one, I could literally print out the "symptoms" page, and hand it to the doctor to descrbe my symptoms. I have, or have had, over the course of the last year, every one, barring the obvious exceptions, on the page. The anatomical diagrams, show exactly the area of pain, the area I have not quite been able to explain adequately to the doctors.
There is, of course, far more to the story, and if any of this is unclear, I apologize, the main thing I wanted to know was, am I doing more damage with seated dips, and how do you see a gynocologist if you're male? I see the doc here in Phx (Dr. Hibert I think?) is referenced on the site, but does he ever see men? Anyhow, thanks in advance for any info, and happy to answer any questions if anything's confusing, it' s probably not the most cohesive missive I've written, a little scattered at present. And thanks for the site, great info, if a little terrifying...
