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What medicines treat an enlarged prostate?

By Advanced Urology · Roswell office

Alpha blockers

Alpha blockers, like tamsulosin, relax the prostate and bladder neck, often within days.

Finasteride and dutasteride

Five-alpha reductase inhibitors, like finasteride or dutasteride, slowly shrink the prostate over months. Some men take both.

Tadalafil

Tadalafil can also help urinary symptoms.

Side effects

Side effects can include dizziness, ejaculation changes, or lower sex drive.

Beyond pills

If medicine isn't enough, procedures are an option.

Get evaluated

Get evaluated if urinary symptoms affect your sleep or day.

Book a visit

Request a visit at Advanced Urology to go over your options.

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Some symptoms can’t wait for an appointment.Fever or shaking chills along with side or back pain, being unable to urinate, passing clots or a lot of blood, or pain you can’t control: go straight to an emergency department or call 911.

What should I ask?

Which BPH medicine am I on, and for how long?
Have I noticed dizziness, ejaculation changes or lower sex drive?

Your visit

Bring the names and doses of your prostate medicines and how long you have taken them. We may check your urine flow and how much urine stays behind, which shows whether the medicine is doing its job.

When to call

Call us if you are still up at night or straining while on medicine, or if dizziness or sexual side effects make you want to stop. Please talk with us before stopping a prostate medicine.

Our approach

Our urologists match the medicine to your symptoms and prostate, and they raise procedures early if pills are not helping. Advanced Urology offers UroLift, Aquablation, PAE, HoLEP and TURP, among others.

Can I be seen in Roswell?

Bring your questions to our Roswell clinic and surgery center, where our urologists, physician assistants and nurse practitioners can go over them with you in person. Our Roswell team is here when you are ready.

Call 678-344-8900, mention this article, and our team will find you the first opening in Roswell.

Watch

Dr. Herman Bagga of our Roswell team explains three options when prostate medicine isn’t working:

Watch: Prostate medicine not working? 3 options to help

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