Enlarged Prostate (BPH)
Enlarged Prostate: will I need surgery?
The short answer
Most men don't.
Many do well with lifestyle changes or medicine.
Worth knowing
A procedure may help when medicine isn't enough, you'd rather not take pills, or problems like urine retention appear.
When to come in
Get checked if your stream, night trips, or emptying are getting worse.
Asking about Rezum?
Rezum isn’t offered at Advanced Urology. The enlarged-prostate treatments our urologists offer include UroLift, Aquablation, TURP, HoLEP, robotic simple prostatectomy and prostate artery embolization.
Enlarged prostate care at Advanced Urology · How BPH procedures compare, including HoLEP
Talking it over with us
We’d be glad to talk this through with you at our Snellville Clinic & Surgery Center, 1557 Janmar Rd, Snellville, GA 30078, or our Conyers Clinic, 1366 Wellbrook Circle Suite B, Conyers, GA 30012. You can ask for a particular urologist by name, or let our scheduling team find the first opening.
How our urologists approach this
Most men with an enlarged prostate never need a large operation, and our first step is understanding how much your symptoms bother you. Symptoms don’t always match prostate size, so we look at your stream, how well the bladder empties and what matters most to you. Lifestyle changes and medicine come first for many men. When they aren’t enough, Advanced Urology offers outpatient options such as UroLift and prostate artery embolization, along with tissue-removing procedures like Aquablation, HoLEP and TURP, and robotic simple prostatectomy for very large glands.
What to expect when you see us
We’ll ask about your urinary symptoms, your medicines and your health history. A urine test and a prostate exam are common, and our team may measure your urine flow or check with ultrasound how much stays in the bladder afterward. Then we lay out the choices side by side.
When to call us
Call us if you’re having more trouble starting to urinate, your stream keeps getting weaker, or you’re getting up again and again at night.
Watch a short video
These two short videos from Dr. A. Dev Mally walk through two procedures that don’t remove tissue.
Keep reading
This is general education, not a diagnosis. All articles