okay, you guys can all read my first post describing what my condition is/was; EP on my right side that felt a 3-pound demonic child with large claws was dangling from my scrot. ejaculation from sex or masturbation was OUT, but with the cipro there was a three day window where sex was okay and masurbation made it much worse. the EP promptly returned with a vengance not unlike chuck bronson in "deathwish". stay with me, here. i thought my life was completely over.
after the doc gave me 3 days cipro and 10 days doxicyline, it came back after three days. he gave me ten days cipro with little to no change. with "sound" medical advice, i was now $300 poorer.

doctor's visits - $100
antibiotics - $200
discovering that my often arrogant doctor (and his many face-chewing collaborators) aren't anywhere near as knowledgable as they struggle to appear to be - PRICELESS

okay, so not as bad of a "payment for my ailment" period as some of you i've read about, but for a lowly computer science student / tool programmer, who's part-time position rewards the bi-weekly payment of a first-day blockbuster employee, it was dire.

so, on my 6th day of cipro, with little results, what do i do? i go up to the store and try as much crap as i can. my list of drugs was long, but i only found a few of the ones i needed, but they were the most effective i've read about, so out comes the debit card. another sucker looking for a dream.
except this new dream was only 40 bucks.
my shopping list (all items purchased from either wal-mart or gnc, both popular outlets in mostly any city):

AZO cranberry tablets
spring valley saw palmetto gels
solaray dandelion capsules
nature's bounty echinacea capsules
PB8 acidophulus capsules
men's one daily vitamin for prostate w/ lycopene
gnc fingerprinted fennel seed capsules
gnc fingerprinted fenugreek capsules

so i've got all this crap and i come up with a twice a day schedule. some of the stuff like fenugreek was recommended as a tea, but the capsule's seemed usable in large doses so i didn't really sweat it. actually i did sweat it, as it makes you smell like it if your on a buttload of it. i digress.

the schedule:

noon /
2 acidophilus capsules
1 one daily vitamin
2 saw palmetto gels
2 echinacea capsules
2 dandelion capsules
1 fennel seed capsule (the recommended daily value)
3 fenugreek capsules (3 times the reccomended daily value)

two hours before bed /
2 saw palmetto gels
2 echinacea capsules
2 dandelion capsules
1 fennel seed capsule
3 fenugreek capsules
2 craberry tablets

that's a whole lot of bother and it takes one full propel to take it all, plus it's like a meal, but my EP is 90% cleared.
i'm not sure what did it or why it worked or what i can stop taking now, but, like antibiotics, i ain't stopping 'til they're all gone.
i can have sex, masturbate or jog or workout or drive in a hot car without irritation, but they're is still tenderness.
i've been taking about two relaxing hot-baths a day, which seems to help as well.
now i need to find something to bring it to a full 100% healing, for the tenderness (staphysagria maybe?).
the tenderness is in both testicles, where the EP was only in one, so maybe i'm just sensitive like that.

as far as the fenugreek, thanks a lot john, this is important stuff to know and you should be rewarded somehow for reccomending it. although i did not get the crazy green or rubbery ejaculate, which i was sort of bracing myself for, it cleared up all the same. i did, however, ejaculate the first few times i had sex like a porn star, which was sort of surprising. i don't mean it was an impressive amount, i mean it was like a firehose. i really didn't try to have sex (and DID NOT masturbate) until it started feeling better so, for me at least, there wasn't mucus or anything suspicious or a feeling of immediate relief, but i only had EP for 2 years at most, not 20+ like a lot of people here.

as of today, i've had sex a few times with no problems (well, not all today!), and two or so nights ago i decided to try masturbation, because i have to ruin everything. no pain, no discomfort, i took a bath after just to be safe and no problems at all. like i said, 90% clear.
i can finally hold a laptop again without feeling "the heat", which, according to dirk diggler in boogie nights, will effectively "rock you".
i do need to find something to take away the 5% discomfort or tenderness left, but overall, i could honestly live like this forever. it's not how i was, but i can go 3 hours without thinking of my testicles once, which is about the rate i thought of or mentioned them before, hehehehe.
i will update my condition and what it takes for 100% healing, but until then i'm going to try and pinpoint which herbs are really useful so no poor sap has to take the truckload i did. a few of the things i've used have been mentioned here before, so for a lucky few there may be some solid help. for others, unfortunately, there's still much to do

ps i had NO REACTION to any of these herbs in conjunction, but it should be noted that i can't vouch for anyone else's recovery. i'm 28 and in great shape, plus i smoke tons of marijuana (no alcohol, cigarettes or other substances), so there could be some amount of variables to note. for the most part, however, i think almost everyone can do this without vomiting, which is more than i can say for fenugreek and fennel tea.