For men with severe BPH

ChiroDoc

ChiroDoc

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For guys with bad BPH, you might want to check into this. Back on March 13 I had a great procedure to shrink my prostate. I've had BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia) for years, and until more recent times medication had adequately treated it. But it had gradually gotten worse and worse, causing frequent and painful urination.

I'd heard about a procedure called prostate arterial embolization (PAE), which causes the prostate gland to shrink. They go in through an artery in your upper thigh with a tiny canula, travel to the arteries that supply the prostate, then deposit minuscule pellets which block blood flow to the gland, thereby shrinking it. It's done by an Interventional Radiologist, not a Urologist. There's not one of those in my area, so I got referred to a guy in New Orleans at Ochsner Medical Center.

The procedure was painless, and it sure beats the hell out of having someone go up through the ole schwantz to access the prostate. I noticed the difference almost immediately. Now I've got a good stream, and I don't have to get up 5-6 times a night !!
 
ChiroDoc said:
For guys with bad BPH, you might want to check into this. Back on March 13 I had a great procedure to shrink my prostate. I've had BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia) for years, and until more recent times medication had adequately treated it. But it had gradually gotten worse and worse, causing frequent and painful urination.

I'd heard about a procedure called prostate arterial embolization (PAE), which causes the prostate gland to shrink. They go in through an artery in your upper thigh with a tiny canula, travel to the arteries that supply the prostate, then deposit minuscule pellets which block blood flow to the gland, thereby shrinking it. It's done by an Interventional Radiologist, not a Urologist. There's not one of those in my area, so I got referred to a guy in New Orleans at Ochsner Medical Center.

The procedure was painless, and it sure beats the hell out of having someone go up through the ole schwantz to access the prostate. I noticed the difference almost immediately. Now I've got a good stream, and I don't have to get up 5-6 times a night !!
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I am real glad you are going freely. I am taking Tamsulosin now and my stream is real slow sometimes. I will see the urologist again in a few months.
 
ChiroDoc said:
For guys with bad BPH, you might want to check into this. Back on March 13 I had a great procedure to shrink my prostate. I've had BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia) for years, and until more recent times medication had adequately treated it. But it had gradually gotten worse and worse, causing frequent and painful urination.

I'd heard about a procedure called prostate arterial embolization (PAE), which causes the prostate gland to shrink. They go in through an artery in your upper thigh with a tiny canula, travel to the arteries that supply the prostate, then deposit minuscule pellets which block blood flow to the gland, thereby shrinking it. It's done by an Interventional Radiologist, not a Urologist. There's not one of those in my area, so I got referred to a guy in New Orleans at Ochsner Medical Center.

The procedure was painless, and it sure beats the hell out of having someone go up through the ole schwantz to access the prostate. I noticed the difference almost immediately. Now I've got a good stream, and I don't have to get up 5-6 times a night !!
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Glad your BPH got an effective treatment. You know the "up through the ole schwantz" phrase just makes my skin crawl & blood run cold, I'd rather have twice of my afflictions rather than one of the "going up..." problems.

You know, if your were rich and famous the medical procedure would include "something" to mask the discomfort. For the rest of us, the excuse for not getting anesthetized is that they need us to be "awake and alert" for....I forget what the line of bs is... :rolleyes:
 
Nathan said:
Glad your BPH got an effective treatment. You know the "up through the ole schwantz" phrase just makes my skin crawl & blood run cold, I'd rather have twice of my afflictions rather than one of the "going up..." problems.

You know, if your were rich and famous the medical procedure would include "something" to mask the discomfort. For the rest of us, the excuse for not getting anesthetized is that they need us to be "awake and alert" for....I forget what the line of bs is... :rolleyes:
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Heh, heh. Yeah, I think most guys would rather have an alternative method, but most are not aware of it, and I'll guess most urologists don't mention the PAE because it is not they who perform it. It's done by an interventional radiologist.

I'd recommend it. It was comparatively a breeze.
 
ChiroDoc said:
For guys with bad BPH, you might want to check into this. Back on March 13 I had a great procedure to shrink my prostate. I've had BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia) for years, and until more recent times medication had adequately treated it. But it had gradually gotten worse and worse, causing frequent and painful urination.

I'd heard about a procedure called prostate arterial embolization (PAE), which causes the prostate gland to shrink. They go in through an artery in your upper thigh with a tiny canula, travel to the arteries that supply the prostate, then deposit minuscule pellets which block blood flow to the gland, thereby shrinking it. It's done by an Interventional Radiologist, not a Urologist. There's not one of those in my area, so I got referred to a guy in New Orleans at Ochsner Medical Center.

The procedure was painless, and it sure beats the hell out of having someone go up through the ole schwantz to access the prostate. I noticed the difference almost immediately. Now I've got a good stream, and I don't have to get up 5-6 times a night !!
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I'm going to ask my doctor about that. I also get up at night and can't urinate. It's not a problem during the day, but every night, I wake up feeling the need to pee, but then I can't go. It's really frustrating.

I had a UroLift procedure about five years ago which was a horrible procedure, and I had excruciating pain and a lot of blood for about five days while it was healing, but then something went wrong and it was back to the way it was before the procedure!

That PAE seems much better.
 
Nathan said:
Glad your BPH got an effective treatment. You know the "up through the ole schwantz" phrase just makes my skin crawl & blood run cold, I'd rather have twice of my afflictions rather than one of the "going up..." problems.

You know, if your were rich and famous the medical procedure would include "something" to mask the discomfort. For the rest of us, the excuse for not getting anesthetized is that they need us to be "awake and alert" for....I forget what the line of bs is... :rolleyes:
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A friend of ours was going in for a similar procedure only he called it a "Valve grind and a Decoke". Most unpleasant he said.
 
ChiroDoc said:
For guys with bad BPH, you might want to check into this. Back on March 13 I had a great procedure to shrink my prostate. I've had BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia) for years, and until more recent times medication had adequately treated it. But it had gradually gotten worse and worse, causing frequent and painful urination.

I'd heard about a procedure called prostate arterial embolization (PAE), which causes the prostate gland to shrink. They go in through an artery in your upper thigh with a tiny canula, travel to the arteries that supply the prostate, then deposit minuscule pellets which block blood flow to the gland, thereby shrinking it. It's done by an Interventional Radiologist, not a Urologist. There's not one of those in my area, so I got referred to a guy in New Orleans at Ochsner Medical Center.

The procedure was painless, and it sure beats the hell out of having someone go up through the ole schwantz to access the prostate. I noticed the difference almost immediately. Now I've got a good stream, and I don't have to get up 5-6 times a night !!
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Thank you. This seems to be quite promising. I'll look into it.
 
That's great ChiroDoc, it works like a charm! I had
it done in 2017 and within 6 months my prostate
had shrunk by well over half the enlarged size, I
cannot remember the weight, but it was between
60% & 70%, a few months later, I was discharged
from the care of the consultant back to my own
doctor, after 17 yrs.
If you have been self catheterising, for a long time,
your bladder might not squeeze, that happened to
me, nowadays only gravity empties it.

Good luck.

Mike.
 
I'm going to have to do something about my enlarged prostate. I was up for an hour during the night trying to go and not being able to go so I'd go back to bed but couldn't sleep because I had to go. And that was after getting up two other times feeling the need to go but not being able to. It seems like it's getting worse.
 
RambleTamble said:
I'm going to have to do something about my enlarged prostate. I was up for an hour during the night trying to go and not being able to go so I'd go back to bed but couldn't sleep because I had to go. And that was after getting up two other times feeling the need to go but not being able to. It seems like it's getting worse.
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For 8 years, I've been taking [link]-> Doxazosin, and it's made a huge difference in the symptoms you're having. It is an older drug for hypertension (high blood pressure) but is not often prescribed for that purpose anymore. My doctor did not suggest Doxazosin - I had read some literature and asked him to prescribe it, and he did. It is often prescribed for symptoms associated with an enlarged prostate.

But just to be clear, it is not a substitute to check for prostate cancer, so if you want to find out about that, it means tests from a urologist, which I declined. Since I informed my general M.D. that I was not going to have a biopsy no matter what, he agreed to prescribe Doxazosin.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
For 8 years, I've been taking [link]-> Doxazosin, and it's made a huge difference in the symptoms you're having. It is an older drug for hypertension (high blood pressure) but is not often prescribed for that purpose anymore. My doctor did not suggest Doxazosin - I had read some literature and asked him to prescribe it, and he did. It is often prescribed for symptoms associated with an enlarged prostate.

But just to be clear, it is not a substitute to check for prostate cancer, so if you want to find out about that, it means tests from a urologist, which I declined. Since I informed my general M.D. that I was not going to have a biopsy no matter what, he agreed to prescribe Doxazosin.
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My doctor prescribed tamsulosin (Flomax). I didn't like the way it made me feel, so I stopped taking it. I just did some research on Doxazosin (I asked AI), and from what I found, its side effects are very similar to tamsulosin.

That's the thing with these medications... for some people, they work good. For others... not so much.

I'll have to schedule a talk with my doctor to find out what options are available. Of course, it was a doctor who recommended the UroLift procedure, and that was a disaster.
 
Paco Dennis said:
I am real glad you are going freely. I am taking Tamsulosin now and my stream is real slow sometimes.
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I take that too. I suppose it helps but my stream is still nowhere near what it was when I was young. I guess that's one of the many ways Nature reminds me that I'm not as young as I used to be.
 
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