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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BHP) treatment

FLOOPER · 2023-05-20 01:16:49

Hi all, Not looking for medical advice as I'm seeing a consultant (public) with regard to BHP and have been told that I'll probably need a TURP procedure but what's putting me off is that there's a 10% chance I'll be impotent which may be permanent and I don't think I could take that risk. I now there's Viagra. I'm still…

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20-05-2023 2:16am

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FLOOPER

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Hi all,
Not looking for medical advice as I'm seeing a consultant (public) with regard to BHP and have been told that I'll probably need a TURP procedure but what's putting me off is that there's a 10% chance I'll be impotent which may be permanent and I don't think I could take that risk. I now there's Viagra. I'm still relatively young and am afraid it will affect my dating prospects. Also there's a good chance I may have to have procedure done again in 5 years.
Has anyone her had the procedure or have they opted for other procedures like Aquablation, Rezum, Enucleation or LASER vaporisation.
My symptoms are UTIs and have been using a catheter since Dec due t retention.
I hope they'll do a scan anyway as they have said the prostate isn't too enlarged by physical exam.
Anybody here have similar procedure and what was outcome.

Really appreciate peoples experiences.

Thanks

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