Enlarged prostate treatment (Rezum)

[xylophone]

2 hours ago, connda said:

Yeah, Cipro is effective but it buggers up your tendons.  Used it to get rid of a case of h.pylori but then suffered knee problems for close to a year.  They're back to normal and no more h.pylori issues but that's a last ditch treatment imho.

Agree with you regarding ciprofloxacin, however there are other just as effective antibiotics out there for UTIs, and one that has been forgotten (old antibiotic) is fosfomycin, which has shown good results in treating UTIs, and the side effects are the usual with ordinary antibiotics, however taking it for three days often does the trick. Augmentin is another good safe standby, as is Trimethoprim 

 

I won't go anywhere near any of the fluoroquinolones again after my last episode with a belligerent urologist, and previous tendon problems.

[spidermike007]

2 hours ago, connda said:

What brand do you use and where do you buy it?

I buy alot of herbal supplements from Swansons. They are in the US, and very well priced. Usually I just carry them back on my frequent trips. Puritan's pride is also quite good and a bargain. 

[xylophone]

Having used the search button to look for prostate, I came up with nothing, however I knew that there were prostate-related posts here, so I thought this might be a place I could post an article from a New Zealand newspaper concerning a new prostate cancer treatment which may provide some hope for the future as it has already been used in the UK............

 

Game changing' surgery could cure prostate cancer.......

Prostate cancer could be cured with a "game changing" one-hour operation that uses electric currents to destroy the most difficult to reach tumours.
The pioneering treatment has been used to treat the disease for the first time on the NHS, with surgeons saying the breakthrough could offer hope to thousands of men.
Treatments offered normally involve surgery to remove the prostate, or radiotherapy, both of which can cause distressing side-effects such as problems with urination, incontinence and loss of sexual function.
Surgeons said the new therapy, called NanoKnife, which has been used to treat prostate cancer patients at University College London Hospital (UCLH), was "amazingly simple and quick".
 

[GarryP]

47 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Having used the search button to look for prostate, I came up with nothing, however I knew that there were prostate-related posts here, so I thought this might be a place I could post an article from a New Zealand newspaper concerning a new prostate cancer treatment which may provide some hope for the future as it has already been used in the UK............

 

Game changing' surgery could cure prostate cancer.......

Prostate cancer could be cured with a "game changing" one-hour operation that uses electric currents to destroy the most difficult to reach tumours.
The pioneering treatment has been used to treat the disease for the first time on the NHS, with surgeons saying the breakthrough could offer hope to thousands of men.
Treatments offered normally involve surgery to remove the prostate, or radiotherapy, both of which can cause distressing side-effects such as problems with urination, incontinence and loss of sexual function.
Surgeons said the new therapy, called NanoKnife, which has been used to treat prostate cancer patients at University College London Hospital (UCLH), was "amazingly simple and quick".
 

Searching on the forum is pretty useless. I always use Google. If I type Thaivisa prostate or Aseannow prostate, a number of different forum threads pop up.  

[CanNot]

@GarryP Thanks for sharing your journey. How is it going? 

[GarryP]

2 hours ago, CanNot said:

@GarryP Thanks for sharing your journey. How is it going? 

It is now 18 days shy of a year since I had the Rezum treatment. I am happy with the results but could be happier. I visited the doctor in July for a follow up appointment on my treatment. The flow was better than pre-treatment and there was no retention post urination. However, the doctor said he had expected the flow to be a little bit higher than it was.  Urination is totally pain free and I am not taking any meds for BPH. 

 

As to night time, I am getting up to the toilet twice a night (most nights) but as mentioned earlier in the thread, there is no struggle to get started. So visits to the bathrooom are very short and I am back to sleep very quickly. No doubt about it that this outcome has proven really beneficial, although I would prefer to limit my night visits to the toilet to once a night. 

 

During my last visit, the doctor did mention that about 5 of his 200+ patients suffered from retrograde ejaculation post treatment. These were patients with large prostates who required more steam injections than the four I had. So while the incidence is quite low, you do need to be aware that this is a possible outcome. I must admit that I was surprised as I didn't recall coming across any incidences of this in the materials I studied pre treatment.