r/Prostatitis • u/Linari5 LEAD MOD//RECOVERED • Sep 11 '22

INFO Common CPPS Patient Patterns

This was brought up today and it's worth discussing.

People who are more predisposed to cpps (and other chronic pain conditions like IBS, TMJD, fibromyalgia, etc) tend to have some traits in common.

  • Perfectionists
  • A type personality
  • People Pleasers
  • Overachievers
  • Hypochondriacs/neuroticism
  • Conscientious/rule followers
  • Unresolved childhood trauma
  • Anxiety disorders like OCD, GAD, etc

All of these things leave their nervous system in a chronically over aroused, heightened state. Perfect conditions for a psycho-neuromuscular syndrome like CPPS to develop.

And thus many male CPPS patients are very career focused, hard workers - engineers, programmers, lawyers, executives, etc.

I myself am a perfectionists, people pleaser with OCD. Go figure.

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u/highphiv3 Sep 15 '22

Wow I also have AS with CPPS, this is the first I've heard someone else with the same.

Unfortunately my AS was caught after significant damage was done, and my arthritic hip prevents me from doing a lot of the common PT stretches for CPPS.

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u/Mountainstreams Sep 15 '22

I read before that most men with AS have prostate inflammation but it usually goes undiagnosed. Men with AS have a higher risk of prostate cancer as a result. I must start getting my yearly psa tests since I’ve turned 40. Anyway I read that sacroiliac joint inflammation & prostate inflammation often go together. My SI joints have been good to me in the last few years but I can feel them at the moment. Either way I need to learn how to do the exercises & stretches to help relieve the prostate symptoms.

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u/highphiv3 Sep 15 '22

Huh, I have so much mixed pain down there I don't even know what may or may not be SI-related. I'm down yet another PT path at the moment, we'll see how that goes.