What treatments work for chronic prostatitis?
Doctors have tried many different treatments for men with prostatitis. But most of the treatments haven’t been properly studied. • Drugs called alpha-blockers can help some men with pain and other symptoms. They help to relax the muscles in and around your prostate gland. • If you have an infection, antibiotics can also help. But they are unlikely to help if you don’t have an infection. • There hasn’t been enough research on all the other treatments for prostatitis. Prostatitis is beginning to get more attention from researchers and the people who fund research, such as charities and governments. But progress is slow.[3][2] We’ve looked closely at the research and ranked the treatments into categories, according to whether they work.
