Sorry for the delay in responding!
I had to stop giving him the cranberry because it sent him to pee every ten to fifteen minutes! He has started the balch protocol and I hope to reintroduce a very small amount of cranberry extract maybe this week.
Balch says (most of these fall in the category of "essential"): non-dairy acidophilus, quercetin, selenium, zinc (w/copper), B complex. Also vitamin E and garlic. I am starting him on lower doses so his stomach can get used to all that "stuff". I have begun to increase the amounts to come up to recommended dosages, now that he is in the second week, and I might start to add some other things that she recommends, in a few weeks. She also recommends diuretic teas (not for him just yet) such as cornsilk, also ginseng and other herbs. I had already been giving him saw palmetto and pumkin seed oil which she recommends also. I bought him that prostate massager as recommended, I am leaving him alone with that to start using as he feels comfortable.
I might add that regarding this matter I have no further confidence in allopathic medicine and I believe that diet and supplements and the prostate massager are the only answers. I am not radically opposed to all allopathic medicine but in this case, I feel like the doctor gave the stock response and the stock treatment and lost some precious months.
My husband the other day told me that he thinks he has had this problem in some form for the past ten years. And he is only thirty! No other doctor had a satisfactory answer for him and treatments he has received in the past included a cystoscopy (yikes!) that was negative, so the doctor he had at that time told him to just forget about it.
well, that's the most recent update. I welcome any feedback or questions and I will keep posting with developments.
-cyclo