URINE, CHANGE IN STREAM OF: TREATMENT
Any change in your urine stream is a sign that you should see your doctor or urologist. If you have a kidney stone, your doctor will prescribe painkillers to help decrease the pain without interfering with or prolonging the process of passing the stone. He may also suggest a process called lithotripsy, which uses underwater ultrasound waves to break up the stone.
If you think you’re having prostate problems with an enlarged prostate, you should make an appointment with a urologist, since early treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH, could prevent it from turning into prostate cancer down the road. To treat BPH, your doctor may take a wait-and-see attitude, but since you are already showing a symptom of BPH by a change in your urine stream, he may decide to begin treatment, first with the medication Proscar, which shrinks the prostate. If the medication does not have much effect, he may opt for a surgical procedure called a transurethral prostate resection, in which the parts of the prostate that are constricting the flow of urine are surgically removed to take the pressure off the urethra.
The resection is successful in most cases, but if the prostate continues to grow, there’s a chance the operation may have to be repeated when urination again becomes difficult.
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