Enlarged prostate- Enlarged prostate
11 Signs and Symptoms
Taking a long time to urinate?
Do you have difficulty urinating?
What does prostate mean?
The prostate is an organ located between the bladder and the penis. Actually, the prostate is in front of the rectum. The urethra passes through the center of the prostate, and this way, urine can exit your body from the bladder through the penis.
How big is the prostate?
The size of a normal prostate gland is 3 * 3 * 5 centimeters with a volume of approximately 25 ml. The prostate is the size of a walnut. How big in inches: 1.18 x 1.18 x 1.97.
What happens if the prostate is too large?
Prostate is very large it puts pressure on the bladder and urethra. The urethra that you can see is the small tube that drains urine from your body. Hence, your urination will be affected and you will have difficulty urinating, Passing urine for a week may be leaking or dribbling, or you urinate more often.
What does it mean if your prostate is too big?
When your prostate becomes enlarged it is called BPH or benign prostatic hyperplasia. It happens to men as they get older.
If expanded how does the prostate make you feel?
And an enlarged prostate can make you feel uncomfortable, especially when you try to urinate and the flow of urine is obstructed.
Common symptoms of an enlarged prostate
Urination especially at night, difficulty urinating, weak urine flow or sudden stop or start. Dripping at the end of urination and a feeling that the bladder is not completely emptied.
Where do you feel enlarged prostate pain?
You may experience pain in your genital area, which includes your penis, your testicles, your rectum, and sometimes even radiating pain to your abdomen or your lower back. Some people report it as constipation, which means it hurts when you try to have a bowel movement.
What are the most common symptoms of an enlarged prostate?
1. Nocturia
This means you have to get up during the night to go to the bathroom. This usually happens twice a night. As a result, your sleep will be disturbed. Your urine volume may be low despite going to the bathroom more often.
Nocturia is a common condition affecting more than 50% of adults after age 50. It’s more common in men and people assigned male at birth (AMAB) after age 50. Before 50, nocturia is more common in women and people assigned female at birth ( AFAB). It affects up to 1 in 3 people over the age of 30.
2. Difficulty urinating with weak urine stream: Here you have difficulty starting to urinate and your urine flow is weak when you urinate. When you’re trying to maintain urine flow, you’re straining, straining and to start urine flow or to maintain your urine flow is very common. Your healthcare provider may use the term urinary incontinence.
3. Prolonged urination: If you remember the anatomy, the enlarged prostate presses on the urethra, and in this way you can stop and start your urine while trying to maintain the flow and flow of your urine. It takes longer for you to urinate. So not only does your urine flow slow down, but your urine flow stops and starts.
4. A feeling that your bladder is not completely empty: After peeing you want to pee again. Because of the volume of residual urine in your bladder, this volume pushes against your bladder, giving you the sensation of trying to urinate again. Clinically they sometimes use the term encore voiding.
5. Daytime frequency: This ties in with the symptoms I described earlier. When I talk about going to the bathroom at night, I mean that you tend to go to the bathroom more often during the day and the urine volume should be less even if you go more often.
6. Urinary Urgency: This means you have an urge to urinate and you need to go to the toilet as soon as possible and it is difficult to postpone it. This can happen when you get out of bed or change your position while lying in bed.
7. Urinary Incontinence: This can occur when the prostate enlarges pressing on the urethra and this can lead to spontaneous leakage events.
8. Terminal triple is the term health care providers use when you try to urinate and your urine flow slows to a trickle or trickle. passed urine post budding.
9. Urinated Post budding: Post-urinary drops are usually involuntary loss of urine after leaving the toilet. Some times it may happen in the bed.
10. Dysuria: Sometimes you may feel burning or pain while urinating. You may even describe it as a general discomfort when urinating. It is usually associated with signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection, but can also be seen in people with an enlarged prostate.
11. Urinary Retention: In addition to the above, the prostate becomes so large that it presses on the urethra and causes obstruction. This leads to bladder retention, and can lead to a medical emergency if the retention backs up urine into the urethra and then into the kidney. This can lead to severe kidney damage, and increases the chances of urinary tract infections and kidney infections. You may even see blood in your urine.
How will your healthcare provider diagnose BPH? Your healthcare provider or your doctor will take a medical history and perform a physical exam. Workup and testing include blood tests and urine tests. During your physical exam, your healthcare provider may perform a rectal exam to assess the size and shape of your prostate gland. The reason your health care provider performs a urinalysis is to check for signs of a bladder infection or to rule out kidney disease. The blood test includes checking the level of prostate specific antigen, PSA for short. PSA levels may be elevated in individuals with benign prostatic hyperplasia. It is worth noting that PSA can also be elevated in patients with prostate cancer, although this is usually proportionally higher than the PSA level. Another test that can be done is a urodynamic study. During a urodynamic test, your lower urinary tract, which includes your bladder, sphincters, and urethra, is looked at. All of these structures play a role in storing and releasing urine, so in other words, this test tells your healthcare provider how well your bladder is holding and emptying urine.
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