OK,
I got quite a few questions from people who don’t speak german about my struggles with my disease.
Some of them where from friends, some from people who where looking for help and stumbled upon my blog.

(Für die nicht Englisch Sprechenden unter euch, werde ich demnächst das ganze nochmal ins Deutsch übersetzen.
Oder ihr lest einfach meine alten Blog Einträge.)

Sometime in early september this year a strange itching started to develop at the end of my penis.
Since it got a little bit annoying, I visited my doctor.
He did a few basic checks and when he felt my prostate gland it hurt like hell.
(Well, in hindesight it was only minor.)
So he sent me to an Urologist.
There we did serveral tests, but apart from that sensitivity to the touch,
there was nothing.

“Possibly a tripper, take some antibiotics and you’ll be fine in a week.” (Blog entry)
Got Tavanic and Doxyciclin.
He took some blood to run a test, to see what exactly it was.
A day later I felt like shit.
Major depression. Really bad stomach problems. (Blog entry)
A week later I was back to my doc. The results showed nothing. So no need to finish the antibiotics. (Blog entry)

10 days later I still felt like shit. (Blog entry)
I had a CT that week, but that showed nothing. “You look perfectly healthy.”

About four weeks passed. They told me “you are healthy” and “it’ll get better”.
And I felt worse and worse.
After a second CT and a few Docs I finally had a diagnosis.
“Abakterial prostatitis or CPPS”. (Blog entry)
At that time I didn’t even know what that was.
“But we have an experimental treatment. ESWT (Extracorporal ShockWave Therapie)”.
Basically getting shot at with “noise”. They used this to destroy kidney and bladder stones for years and years.

A week after that (after my first ESWT) I had some information on my problem.
And I was totally devastated. (Blog entry)
Had to go to the restroom about every 5-20 minutes.
No sexual interest. And came after about 15 seconds of stimulation to my penis end.
Got pretty week by then, with my legs giving away.
Still stomach problems and aches in my left leg.

A week later I visited a proctologist, to check my final intestine. (Blog entry)
Nothing.
By then the ache in my left leg, started to wander towars my nuts.
My mood was very bad,
but I decided to fight.

Played with bengay for a while, since the area of my kidneys was always very cold.
But things didn’t improve.

By the beginning of november things were sometimes a little better,
but usually quite bad. (Blog entry)
Walking usually killed me.
One day I was on a trade show (a lot of walking)
and the next I had to pee every 20 Minutes again.
Started to look into alternative medicine.

In the middle of september things got really bad. (Blog entry)
I was going to my third ESWT. But broke down at the ambulance.
Ended up staying in the hospital for a week.

Did an intestine reflection and gastroscopy.
Nothing.

The next ESWT didn’t happen. The machine started leaking. (Blog entry)
I read A Headache in the Pelvis: A New Understanding and Treatment for Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes by Dr. David Wise.
That gave me some hope.
He basically says the the whole thing is cramp.
The whole pelvic floor starts to contract, but doesn’t let go.
Since the muscles don’t get supplies while contracted,
they start to starve. When they starve they feel that something is wrong
and start to react. They try to protect the body … by …
… contracting even more.
So all I had to do was loosen that cramp …

A week later I still felt bad.
I started with AT (again) and was pretty sure that I didn’t have CPPS.
The symptoms simply didn’t match.

A few days later I visited a Kinesiologist. (Blog entry)
Was a bit like HokusPokus, but there were some parts that seemed to make sense.
In the end he told me to avoid (cow)milk for a few weeks.

A day later I ended up at another alternative doctor. (Blog entry)
He is a friend of a very good friend.
And I struck gold.
He found some of the triggerpoints in my belly.
He just pressed on them for a while — that hurt like hell — until the muscle went soft again.
And that was really a good relief.
He calls it “Myoreflex Therapie”. In swiss it’s called “Manual Triggerpoint Therapie”
and Dr. Wise (USA) calls it “Myfascial Triggerpoint Therapie”,
but I guess it’s all the same.

After that session I felt so much better.
I really thought that was the start of the end of the whole problem.

The next week I went to a chinese doctor,
intending to do accupuncture as pain relief. (Blog entry)
Had the needles put in and it hurt like hell.
After that I talke to another doctor and she told me:
- No Milk (none at all)
- No Sugar
- No Nuts
- No spices
- No (uncooked) vegetables
- Drink only warm water with honey
For at least 3 to 6 month.

My belly got worse after the first treatment,
but I learned that that is expected and considered a good sign.

Went on with accupuncture and myreflex therapie.
I really thought that’s it.

Then one saturday I got this really bad kick in the crotch out of nowhere. (Blog entry)
Took a hot bath and it seemed a little better.
Well, started peeing blood the next day.
So back to my urologist.

Went on with accupuncture, myoreflex and went to an orthopedic doctor.
He did some chiropractic on my back,
but said that was only minor.

By then I started asking myself, why my leg and stomach hurts
if I have CPPS ? (Blog entry

All the things finally seemed to get me in the right direction.
Things really seemed to get better.

Had a bladder reflection. (Blog entry
Was no problem, since I was really relaxed.
The whole bladder looked infected,
so back to taking drugs again.
No antibiotics!

By mid december I had my last myreflex therpie for the year,
since my therapeut went on vaction. (Blog entry)
But I felt quite good.
The next day I thought I was going to die.
By monday I had the runs. Well, it was more like water what came out of my bowels.
Luckily I found another therapist, that had an open slot that day. (Blog entry)
She made my muscles soft again and suggested to got to the “tropical klinink” and visit another “doctor”,
specialised in food allergies.
I phoned him up and had an appointment three days later.

So I visited him. (Blog entry)
He took some blood, so the lab can do a full immune profile,
which will tell my if I have any food allergies or incompatibility.
He also did a perturbative field analysis.
The reslut ?
- No Milk
- No Sugar
- No Proteins
Oh my, I start running out of options.

He also gave me some advice (and drugs) to help me get my intestine system back on track.

Today it’s christmas eve and I still don’t know where this thing is going.
All I need is that the “normal” doctors didn’t help at all and only mad things worse.
Alternative medicine at least helps a little.

I’ll keep you posted.

Here are various settings that make browsing with Firefox a lot better … for me.
They have been gathered over quite some time from various resources.

Start up Firefox and enter about:config in the location field.

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true
This way you don’t get annoying popups if a request times out or a site doesn’t exist.

network.http.pipelining = true
Allow to make multiple requests when retrieving pages.

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 32
Defines how many requests can be done in parallel.

There are some more, but I’ll have to filter them from my settings.

Finally someone decided to clean up the pile of junk:
Inside Firefox - The Inside Track on Firefox Development

Don’t get me wrong.
Firefox is great, but the Prefs dialog is almost unusable…

Meine absolute Lieblings CD im Moment:

Solitude von Chamber.

Im Januar startet die Tour.
Und auf dem WGT’05 spielen sie auch

Their basic service is free, so I’m gonna test it for a while.

Estone
If they’d mention a price I would start to think about replacing my empeg MKII.

Nah. Not really.

SD Card Doubles as USB Flash Drive - Everything USB

Now if they’d only do this with compact flash.

BTW:
880 New Taiwan Dollar are about 20 Euros or 27 US$.

Just reading book 7 of the sword of truth cycle:

I think Godkind get’s a little distracted.
Maybe he didn’t want to end it yet

OK,
here it is in all its glory

1. Put the plugin into your plugins directory.
2. Set the DEL_USER and DEL_PASS.
3. Put the delicious php class into your plugins/includes directory.
4. Activate the plugin.

Let me know if it doesn’t work.
Or if you have any improvements.

[php]
/*
Plugin Name: Deliciousizer
Version: 0.1
Plugin URI: http://anti.cute-ninjas.com/
Description: Post new posts to del.icio.us
Author: Andreas Neukoetter
Author URI: http://anti.cute-ninjas.com/
*/

$DEL_USER=”YES”;
$DEL_PASS=”SURE”;

require_once(’includes/class.delicious.php’);

function delicious_add( $user, $pass, $link, $title, $tag )
{
//$url = “http://$USER:$PASS@del.icio.us/api/posts/add?url=$link&description=$title&tags=$tags”;
$del = new delicious( $user, $pass );
$now = strftime( “%C%y-%m-%dT%H:%M-%S” );
$del->add_post( $link, $title, “”, $tag, $now );

}
function post_to_delicious( $id )
{
global $wpdb, $tableposts, $tablepost2cat, $tablecategories;
global $DEL_USER, $DEL_PASS;

$post_title = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT post_title FROM $tableposts WHERE ID=$id;”);
$title = “Anti’s Blog [”.$id.”] - “.$post_title;
$tags = “[wp-anti] [wp-$id] blog”;

$post_cats = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT category_id FROM $tablepost2cat WHERE post_id=$id;” );
foreach( $post_cats as $post_cat ){
$post_cat_title = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT cat_name FROM $tablecategories WHERE cat_ID=”.$post_cat->category_id.”;”);
$tags = $tags.” “.$post_cat_title;
}
$link = get_permalink( $id );

delicious_add( $DEL_USER, $DEL_PASS, $link, $title, $tags );

return( $id );
}

add_action( ‘edit_post’, ‘post_to_delicious’,9 );
add_action( ‘publish_post’, ‘post_to_delicious’,9 );
[/php]

BTW:
Thanks to Daryl for PHPizer

OK.
The publish_post only gets the post id when the priority is lower than that of generic_ping (10),
since that hook is buggy.

Should be better now.

get_permalink( ) was the magic function

ezSQL is your friend.
And get_results is better than get_var when getting more than one result

OK.

The plugin isn’t complete yet, but I never said so.

The link posted isn’t correct and it doesn’t handle multiple categories.

I’ll work on that.

And the post id only seems to work on edits, not on initial posts

Just started to write my first wordpress plugin.

Every new and edited post should be end up in my del.icio.us bookmarks.

War heute bei ‘nem anderen Heilpraktiker.
Hat mir Blut abgenommen für ein Immun Profil.
Mal schauen, was ich alles vertrage und was nicht.

Weiss auch nicht so genau was falsch ist,
wird mir aber erstmal helfen den Darm aufzubauen.

Bei der Störfeldanalyse kam dann wieder einmal heraus,
daß ich zur Zeit keine Milch vertrage…

… und kein Eiweiß …

…. und keinen Zucker.

Mal schauen was ich den nächsten Tage so essen werde.
Rohkost hat mir die chinesische Ernährungsberatering ja auch schon verboten.

Hab’ am Montag noch ‘ne Heilpraktikering gefunden die Myoreflex anbietet.
Hab’ dann auch direkt nachmittags noch einen Notfall Termin bekommen.

Das war nötig.
Hat schonmal etwas geholfen.

Abends dann meine letzte ESWT. Mal abwarten.

Dienstag Nachmittag dann wieder Akkupunktur.
Auch die letzte … für dieses Jahr.

Lasse mich morgen mal intensiv auf Allergien untersuchen und habe nächste Woche ‘nen Termin
in der Tropenklinik. Evtl. habe ich mir ja doch irgendwas eingefangen.

Werde auch mal anfangen mit Sparen,
um nach San Francisco zu Dr. David Wise zu fliegen.

Freitag ging es mir noch relativ gut.
Samstag wurde mein Zustand dann deutlich schlechter.
Sonntag war ich dann 2 Stunden unterwegs und danach ging es mir dann richtig schlecht.
Etwas Schmerzen un d richtig schlapp.

Hab’ dann auch noch bei Kathrin einen Wuerfel Feta aus dem Salat “genascht”.
Naja, die Quittung kam gerade eben.
Als Durchfall kann man das nicht mehr bezeichnen.
War einfach nur noch wie Wasser…

Versuche gerade einen Arzt aufzutreiben der Myoreflex Therapie anbietet.

Gestern war wieder Akkupunktur angesagt. Zum Glück hilft das.

Heute war ich wieder bei meinem Heilpraktiker zur Myoreflextherapie. Das bringt auch was.
Der nächste Termin ist leider erst Ende Januar. Mal schauen wie ich mich bis dahin durchschlage…

This is the first post on the new host.
If you can see this, your DNS caches have already been updated.

I hope I didn’t miss anything

I’ve been thinking about a new (photo) printer a lot lately.
Looks like the Canon Pixma IP5000 (amazon.de) is the one I want.

Want to buy me one ?

Just in case I’ll ever have to recover a password from an old mozilla/firefox/firebird/phoenix file.

Mozilla does support data URIs.
Just strip the leading “~” and the trailing “==” from the login and password
and you have base64 encoded data.

Let Mozilla decode it:
Enter
data:;base64,WhAtEvEr
in the location bar and hit enter.

War gerade bei meiner 5ten (und vorletzten) ESWT.

Hab’ mit dem Arzt über das Ergebnis der Blasenspiegelung geredet.
Er war überhaupt nicht überrascht.

Hab’ gestern nach der Akkupunktur geschummelt
und mir ‘nen vegetarischen Döner (mit Schafskäse) gegönnt.
Naja, heute hatte ich dann auch prompt wieder Durchfall….