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I know many people...men particularly don't like to talk openly about BHP and all the uncomfortable problems it causes us as we get older. However let's face it, it's a fact of aging and hard to avoid. Not talking about it won't make it go away, so facing it and dealing with it is the only choice we have, right?
How one deals with it to make it bearable is the issue and as anyone with it will know there are a variety of ways to do that, both medicinal, surgical, and now with a couple of different types of laser treatments via catheter.
Forget about the surgical treatment because I would have to be dying from it to let anyone cut out part of my prostaate. That's because aside from it being an invasive surgery, and frequently causing urinary incontinence (although that Depends), there are the other less pleasant ramifications which I won't go into here because they make me cringe like most men will. These surgical methods were the so-called gold standard at one time (in the Paleolithic I think) but are the genital equivalent of a lobotomy IMO and there is no longer any justtification for them. If you want to know how awful that is read the following, if not skip ahead.
My oldest closest friend, who sadly just died unexpectedly of acute pancreatitis and the spectic shock it caused, had his prostate removed two years ago because they found two types of cancer in it. He told me recently that it was far worse than he had imagined it would be when he decided to do it. This was because it basically left him sexless, not just due to impotence and lack of any ejaculate but because the hormonal loss made his genitals totally shrink away to practically nothing. Like a little boy again. Nuff Said, right?
Okay, so due to the urinary issues of this problem and the related sexual issues, I have been considering one of the laser treatments to open up the restricted uretha. Reportedly it is generally quite successful and isn't dangerous like normal surgery nor does it cause incontinece or anything like that. The most I have heard that can happen is that you have retrograde ejaculation. But due to my heart meds I have that already anyway. So it's no biggie.
What I would like, is to hear some testimonials, experiences, comments from anyone who has had it done about if it really is as beneficial as the literature says (from the places that do it of course) and therefore worth doing. My insurance will cover it so money is not a problem. It's more a question of whether I want to have yet another medical procedure done on my already multi-operated-on body.
Also, for the past year I have been taking a med called Silodyx which has really helped me greatly. It helps with the flow of urine and relaxes the prostate and works much better than the other meds normally prescribed. I tried two of those and they did nothing. With this I hardly have to get up at night to pee more than once any more and that after over 15 years of 2,3, and 4 times a night.
On the other hand I take a diuretic for my heart condition in the morning so that gets most of the liquid out of me earlier on in the day. Before I took the silodyx I still had to pee 2 and 3 times a night. Now I often actually wake up with a parched mouth in the morning from lack of liquid and have to get a drink of water even though I only peed once during the 10 hours I usually sleep.
So you might ask why I would want to do the laser treatment at all, and the answer is that I want to feel like a man again. I'm sure any guys over 65 will know what I mean by that. If not, remember that the laws of fluid dynamics dictate that you can't get water to come out of a crimped hose in anything but a dribble unless you remove the crimp.
Doing that is the only way to be able to write your name in the snow again and I'd like to be able to do it before I go where all the old huskeys go.
How one deals with it to make it bearable is the issue and as anyone with it will know there are a variety of ways to do that, both medicinal, surgical, and now with a couple of different types of laser treatments via catheter.
Forget about the surgical treatment because I would have to be dying from it to let anyone cut out part of my prostaate. That's because aside from it being an invasive surgery, and frequently causing urinary incontinence (although that Depends), there are the other less pleasant ramifications which I won't go into here because they make me cringe like most men will. These surgical methods were the so-called gold standard at one time (in the Paleolithic I think) but are the genital equivalent of a lobotomy IMO and there is no longer any justtification for them. If you want to know how awful that is read the following, if not skip ahead.
My oldest closest friend, who sadly just died unexpectedly of acute pancreatitis and the spectic shock it caused, had his prostate removed two years ago because they found two types of cancer in it. He told me recently that it was far worse than he had imagined it would be when he decided to do it. This was because it basically left him sexless, not just due to impotence and lack of any ejaculate but because the hormonal loss made his genitals totally shrink away to practically nothing. Like a little boy again. Nuff Said, right?
Okay, so due to the urinary issues of this problem and the related sexual issues, I have been considering one of the laser treatments to open up the restricted uretha. Reportedly it is generally quite successful and isn't dangerous like normal surgery nor does it cause incontinece or anything like that. The most I have heard that can happen is that you have retrograde ejaculation. But due to my heart meds I have that already anyway. So it's no biggie.
What I would like, is to hear some testimonials, experiences, comments from anyone who has had it done about if it really is as beneficial as the literature says (from the places that do it of course) and therefore worth doing. My insurance will cover it so money is not a problem. It's more a question of whether I want to have yet another medical procedure done on my already multi-operated-on body.
Also, for the past year I have been taking a med called Silodyx which has really helped me greatly. It helps with the flow of urine and relaxes the prostate and works much better than the other meds normally prescribed. I tried two of those and they did nothing. With this I hardly have to get up at night to pee more than once any more and that after over 15 years of 2,3, and 4 times a night.
On the other hand I take a diuretic for my heart condition in the morning so that gets most of the liquid out of me earlier on in the day. Before I took the silodyx I still had to pee 2 and 3 times a night. Now I often actually wake up with a parched mouth in the morning from lack of liquid and have to get a drink of water even though I only peed once during the 10 hours I usually sleep.
So you might ask why I would want to do the laser treatment at all, and the answer is that I want to feel like a man again. I'm sure any guys over 65 will know what I mean by that. If not, remember that the laws of fluid dynamics dictate that you can't get water to come out of a crimped hose in anything but a dribble unless you remove the crimp.
Doing that is the only way to be able to write your name in the snow again and I'd like to be able to do it before I go where all the old huskeys go.
