Question: Hey Doc I have had inflammation in my testicles for over 3 years now I have cured it each time w a course of cipro ... The last two occurrences haven't been the same or easy to cure . The first episode was inflammation in both testicles burning while urination, itching around the pupic area smell n cloudy weak urine but this time I was have a pain in my right testicle which I never had before , I was tested for stds across the board and everything was negative as usual and I was give 1 dosage of Zithro and I think some cipro again and all the pain and symptoms cleared up ! Well four months later I had random oral sex again and everything came back so I was prescribed a z pack of 5 days and nothing happened I also been on augmentin for 2 week and the symptoms seemed to clear up again before having oral sex w my gf and the pain symptoms came back so I was told to go back on cipro from my urologist and doxycycline for three weeks this hasn't helped I have been having a throbbing pain in and out of my testicle and a lil groin n back pain . I have an appointment to get a 4 glass stamey smears glass culture test but I am told that after all of these antibiotics it will probably be negative . So my question is what do I do ? Do I try another antibiotic ? Like bactrim or levoflaxicin ? This really worrying me cause I feel like the symptoms may be getting worse and I know their has to be a resistant bacteria in my prostate some where ?

Hey Doc I have been on bactrim for 3 weeks now and right away I felt improvement less pain less frequently but I still have the pain in and out of the scrotum mostly the right testicle the inflammation of my testicles has decreased a lot but it seems to flare up a little after masturbation how long do you think I should continue bactrim ds for ? I have a appointment to get a e.p.s next Wednesday but I was told after all the antibiotics I have taken that most likely nothing will show up. so they will think this is abacterial prostatitis which I know it's from a bacteria . Is there any antibiotics I could recommend to my urologist that would be strong enough to eradicate this ? Because he said he honestly don't know how to treat this .