- Acute bacterial prostatitis is accompanied by urgency, frequency, dysuria
- Sometimes systemic sx of fevers, chills, severe illness; if present, consider prostatic abscess
- Chronic prostatitis when symptoms recur or persist (often after courses of antibiotics) with the same organism
- Prostate tender on exam
- Will have edematous/indurated character on palpation (i.e. "bogginess")