Thanks so much for all the information. The article on prostatitis really helped me understand more about what the dr. said. He asked me if it was sterile prostatitis and I told him that I could only remember once or twice them even finding an infection out of 20 to 30 times having it. They assumed I guess since I had it before that it was the same thing? I have alreadys related the low back pain to it, and it always got worse, then they give me antibodics and in a month or so the back pain would be gone. I wonder now, if this was even prostatitis since no infection was generally found? Could this just be a flare that I did not know about back then, and it just went away and the antibodics did not do anything for it? This is confusing to me? He also saw that I was a little low on iron on the last blood test, and asked me if I had anemia. I told him I had it when I was younger but no one had mentioned it lately. He said this was also a sign, that men generally did not get low in iron. It is looking more like it may be a possible answer for all the trouble over the years, but I still have no idea what he will tell me. I guess since the gene test came back negative the first time, I just thought it was RA or something else? I appreciate the information on the meds, cause I was thinking that it should have cleared it all up, and it has not. I know that if what I have been having is flare ups, that they have changed in the last few months, now it seems like the pain has not went away completely as it did before? Just eases off some, but does not go away. Thanks for the help and I will stay in touch and keep searching.
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