Last thing Thursday night (26th) I had to strain a bit to pee. On Friday morning, very little came out (about an egg-cup full) and it was rather painful. I was also constipated – it didn’t even feel as though there was anything there that wouldn’t come out, just the constipated feeling between navel and bladder. It continued all day Friday (when I woke far too late to ring the GP) and Saturday … generally OK lying down, but as soon as I stood up intense urge to pee. Saturday evening I took 30ml of lactulose (from a rather old bottle), so Sunday morning bowels moved ok (as much as lactulose ever does). However, a dull pain in both front and back up in my back passage, which got much worse if I sat down … recliner with footrest up, or lying down were OK. Temperature peaked at 39C but went down again.
Up at 6am on Monday (woke to pee, decided to stay awake and ring GP). Shower at 7am, rang GP at 8 on the dot and was 13th in the queue. They rang back within 15 minutes offering an appointment at 10:40, and asking me to bring a urine sample. Fortunately, I had a sample pot left over from my last attack of prostatitis five-plus years ago. My guess of an egg-cup full was about right – the measure on the sample pot showed 40ml.
