BPH Treatment Options
Have you been diagnosed with BPH? Is your ability to urinate freely impacting your quality of life? While an enlarged prostate may be inevitable as you get older, there is something you can do about it.
Treatment options range from behavior modification and watchful waiting to medications, minimally invasive procedures and surgery. Which is right for you? It all depends on the amount of discomfort you’re in, your age, health, the size of your prostate and your post-procedure expectations. Take our BPH Quiz and read on to find the right treatment option for you.
How common is BPH?
BPH affects 28.1 million men in India1.
By the time men are in their 70s, 7 in 10 will have a large prostate2.
How common is ED?
It is a common problem with more than half of men over the age of 40 experiencing some kind of ED3.
Know more about ED
Discover valuable resources and tools to navigate your ED treatment journey. |
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is a name that is a statement in itself. It aims to normalize and position BPH and ED as problems that can happen only to a MAN! Gentleman, Ladies Man, Strong Man, Tough Man, it can be ANY MAN. The problems, however, are not BPH and ED but ‘Not Talking About Them’.
Seeking help is the next step, but most men are embarrassed to even acknowledge their existence. So, here we aim to make men realize that talking about ED doesn’t make them less of a man. Just like beard and muscles, Benign Prostate Hyperplasia and Erectile Dysfunction are also ‘Man’s Thing’, and we are offering a safe platform that lets you know all about ED and helps you take the right steps to get it treated.
Take the Quiz
Take the IPSS quiz to identify if you are experiencing BPH symptoms and help kick-start the conversation with your urologist.
1. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). GBD Compare. Seattle, WA: IHME, University of Washington, 2015. Available from http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare.
2. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health: Reviews in Urology 2005; 7(Suppl 9): S3–S14. Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: An Overview. Claus G Roehrborn, MD, FACS https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1477638/ Accessed 11 February 2019.
3. Feldman HA, Goldstein I, Hatzichristou DG, et al. Impotence and its medical and psychosocial results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. J Urol. 1994 Jan;151(1):54-61.
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