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Q: I am desperate for sleep. Is there anything I can do to help frequent urination throughout the night?
After 3 months of therapy with medication, your symptoms should have started to improve. If you are very bothered by the symptoms, then it is time to consider other alternatives. There are many good treatments instead of drug therapy for the management of enlargement of the prostate.
Prostate enlargement is often the cause of nocturia (waking at night to urinate) Other sources of nocturia should also be eliminated by your doctors. Various minimally invasive treatments such as laser and microwaves exist to treat prostate enlargement. These treatments are usually performed as an outpatient and have a more favorable safety profile when compared with the more traditional "trimming" of the prostate which is know as a TURP.
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what are some of the other options? one dr suggested trimming the prostate. are there other options?