The first question that you have to ask yourself while with the subjet of enlarged prostate treatment , is whether or not you should treat the situatuion at all.
Once the condition has been diagnosed by your doctor ( an important step to make sure that the signs that you are experiencing are due to an enlarged prostate and not anything else ), you need to come to a decision whether or not the condition is annoying you. If it is not, then for many men, the solution is not to take care of it at all but only to let your doctor test out the situation for you every 6 months.
If, nevertheless, you are troubled by the signs, or your doctor thinks that there is a risk of making things worse, from the problem, then enlarged prostate treatment should be sought.
The first treatment will be medicine treatment . There are a number of medicines at this time in use and others under active testing and development. On the whole , drug treatment will not treat the condition but it may give a relief from the symptoms of an enlarged prostate. You have to discuss medicine treatment with your doctor .Many patients in this age group , for which an enlarged prostate is common , will anyway be on drug treatment for other diseases. Your doctor will also discuss the range of side effects which enlarged prostate treatment medicines carry with them.
If you do not feel fit for drug treatment (or you doctor does not think that medicine treatment will be successful in your case) then the next step is to consider minimally invasive surgical procedure.
There are a choice of procedures on hand these days , some of which can be taken on a day patient basis , and some which will demand a few days in hospital. In usually minimally invasive procedure is intended to minimize the prostate gland or to remove prostate tissue from the vicinity around the urethra and thus ease restriction on the urethra and restore the flow of urine from the bladder.
If these forms of treatment are not suitable, or have been tried and proved ineffective, then enlarged prostate treatment will be a operation. Two usually performed operations are the TURP and TUIP both of which can be carried out laparoscopically or using machine technology and require to stay in hospital between 2 and 3 days.
In other cases, especially where the prostate is exceptionally enlarged, conventuional open surgery may be performed with hospitalization typically lasting about a week.
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