Chronic pelvic pain syndrome can be caused by obstruction from a large prostate, acute bacterial infection, non-bacterial inflammation, or pelvic floor dysfunction.

“we call this kind of constellation of symptoms chronic pelvic pain syndrome so what that really ends up meaning is it's a bucket that you really we put a lot of different things into so you can have pelvic pain and discomfort if you have a large prostate and it's obstructing your urinary tract okay that one we talked about you can manage that that's pretty easy to do but there are other things that can cause pelvic pain and discomfort one would be acute bacterial infection and That's a classic frankly if we find that I feel good because I know we we have a we can address it and so you can address the infection now the inflammation and the discomfort and pain that results after that may take much much longer to resolve you can have a a a non-bacterial inflammation that could be viral although no one's really ever isolated specific viral viruses that are you know an individual man tracks with that pain but viral and then there's pelvic floor you know dysfunction that is outside of the urinary tract”