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By: Michael Green
The first question that you need to ask yourself when with the subjet of enlarged prostate treatment , is whether or not you should take care of the situatuion at all. Once the situation has been examined and identified 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 must to make up your mind whether or not the situation is bothering you. If it is not, then for many men, the answer is not to take care of it at all but just to let your doctor test the situation for you every few months. If, nevertheless, you are troubled by the symptoms, or your doctor thinks that there is a chance of making things worse, from the problem, then enlarged prostate treatment should be sought. The first line of defense will be medicine treatment . There are a number of medicines at the present time in use and others under active testing and development. Generally speaking , drug treatment will not make well the situation but it can give a relief from the conditions 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 already be on medicine 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 suitable for medicine treatment (or you doctor does not think that medicine treatment will be successful in your case) then the next step is to think about minimally invasive surgical procedure. There are a variety of procedures available these days , some of which can be taken on a day-patient basis , and some which will require a few days in hospital. In most cases minimally invasive surgery is designed to shrink the prostate gland or to remove prostate tissue from the region around the urethra and thus ease restriction on the urethra and restore the stream of urine from the bladder. If these kind of treatment are not proper, or have been tried and proved ineffective, then enlarged prostate treatment will be a surgery. Two frequently performed surgeries are the TURP and TUIP both of which can be carried out laparoscopically or using robot equipment and require to stay in hospital between 2 and 3 days. In other cases, especially where the prostate is exceptionally enlarged, traditional open surgery may be used with hospitalization typically lasting about a week.
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Joe Golz is the owner of The Prostate . His main interest is to let people with Prostate problems to read more about it . For more information visit The Prostate Web site.
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