It’s true that prostate problems are very common after age 50. The good news is there are things you can do.
Protecting Yourself Signs of a prostate problem:
Frequent urge to urinate
Need to get up many times during the night to urinate
Blood in urine or semen
Painful or burning urination
Weak flow or not being able to urinate
Painful ejaculation
Frequent pain or stiffness in lower back, hips, pelvic or rectal area, or upper thighs
Dribbling of urine
If you have any of the above symptoms, take action right away..
The Prostate
The prostate is a gland about the size of a walnut and wraps around the tube that carries urine out of the bladder. It grows larger as you get older. If your prostate gets too large, it can cause health issues. Most prostate problems are not cancer. Having a problem with your prostate does not raise your chance of getting prostate cancer.
You may know when something is wrong with your prostate. See your doctor right away if something doesn’t seem right to you. Sometimes a doctor may find a problem that you don’t know about during a routine checkup or by doing a rectal exam. You may also need to have special x-rays or scans to check your prostate and the area around it.
Common Problems
Here are some examples of non-cancer prostate problems:
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, is when the prostate is enlarged, but not cancerous. It is very common in older men. An enlarged prostate may make it hard to urinate or cause dribbling after you urinate. You may feel the need to urinate a lot, often at night. See your doctor for an exam.
Acute prostatitis is a bacterial infection. It usually starts all of a sudden. It can cause fever, chills, or pain in the lower back and between the legs. It might hurt when you urinate.
Chronic bacterial prostatitis is an infection that comes back again and again. This problem can be hard to treat.
Chronic abacterial prostatitis, also known as Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS), is a common prostate problem and occurs mostly in young to middle-aged men. It causes pain in the lower back, between the legs, or at the tip of the penis. Men with this problem often have painful ejaculation and need to urinate frequently.
Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is common among American men. But, very few men die from prostate cancer. Treatment for prostate cancer works best when the disease is found early and has not spread to other parts of your body.
Your chance of getting prostate cancer may be affected by your:
Age. Being 50 or older increases your chance of prostate cancer.
Race. Prostate cancer is most common among African-American men.
Family history. If your father or brother has had prostate cancer, you are more likely to have it too.
Diet. Eating high-fat food with few fruits and vegetables may increase your chance of having prostate cancer.
Diagnosing Prostate Cancer
Early prostate cancer often does not cause symptoms. As the cancer grows, you may have trouble urinating. You may need to urinate often, especially at night. Some men have pain or burning during urination, blood in the urine or semen, pain in the back, hips, or pelvis, and painful ejaculation.
To find out if these symptoms are caused by prostate cancer, your doctor will ask about your past medical problems. He or she will perform a physical exam. In the exam, your doctor will put a gloved finger into your rectum to feel your prostate for hard or lumpy areas.
Your doctor may also do a blood test to check the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. PSA levels may be high in men who have an enlarged prostate gland or prostate cancer. You may also need an ultrasound exam that takes computer pictures of the prostate.
If tests show that you might have cancer, your doctor will likely want to confirm this with a biopsy. He or she will take out tiny pieces of the prostate to look for cancer cells. Your doctor may want to do a biopsy again to check results.
Treating Prostate Cancer
Treatment for prostate cancer depends on whether cancer is in part or all of the prostate or if it has spread to other parts of the body. It also depends on your age and overall health.
What we have found works:
* Use a rife machine using the prostrate program. Create a custom program with the same channels but increase the power settings to 99% (it’s one of your options on custom programs). Use the metal cylinders and put them on each upper thighs with a pillow holding them in place. Do one treatment or more a day.
* Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegtables
* Saw Palmetto (with 85% fatty acids and three times the potency) take each am and pm.
I got well: Leverne Fischer 309 787-1550 Illiniois