Medication

There are three ways your urologist can treat BPH with medication. They can prescribe drugs which work to halt the growth of the prostate or shrink it such as 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, or they can prescribe alpha blockers which ease the symptoms of BPH by shrinking the smooth muscles of the prostate and bladder neck, or phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors which relax the muscles in the lower urinary tract. Many doctors will prescribe a combination of these drugs to target the symptoms and the cause.

Find out how three different BPH medications work.