Patient's question:
I am 32 years old. During a health check-up at my workplace, I was carefully diagnosed with mild benign prostatic hyperplasia. I would like to know, is this condition serious? How should benign prostatic hyperplasia be treated?Doctor's answer:
Frequent urination is one of the early symptoms of fibrosis, especially an increase in nocturia, where patients may urinate 2 to 5 times or more per night. This is due to benign prostatic hyperplasia causing obstruction of the posterior urethra. Another early symptom of fibrosis is difficulty urinating, particularly when it takes significant effort to start urinating, and the urine stream is very thin with a short distance of spray. Early-stage patients may exhibit a sex drive that is not in line with their age, or a previously normal sex drive that suddenly becomes intense. This is often caused by fibrosis of the prostate, disrupting its function, which in turn leads to a temporary enhancement of testicular function through a feedback mechanism.