Enlarged Prostate Side - Effect # 1

 *Severe Cramping*

An enlarged prostate is a common condition for men over 50.

Until I had TURP surgery for my enlarged prostate, I never thought much about my bladder.   For me, it was a 'bag' inside my body that collected and stored urine until I was ready to relieve myself. (remember, I was a patient ... not a doctor)

Then I had my TURP procedure and quickly learned a great deal more about this part of my anatomy.

The bladder is a muscle ... not a bag.

When you have an enlarged prostate, the prostate grows *gradually*, typically over a period of years.  As the prostate tissue enlarges, it slowly squeezes the urethra (the tube connecting the bladder to your penis).

Like any pipe that gets squeezed and still has fluids pass through it ...  it simply takes more *force* to move the fluid through that tube.  This is the same physiology that creates high blood pressure.

As the swelling prostate increases the pressure, the bladder naturally *squeezes harder* to completely empty itself. 

Since the bladder is a muscle ...... it gets *stronger* over time as it needs to continually increase the pressure it exerts to empty itself.

It the same thing that happens in weight training to your muscles ...... they get bigger and stronger as they encounter *resistance*.

 

The bladder is a muscle ... not just a sack that holds your urine.

Surgery for an enlarged and swollen prostate basically:

1. surgically removes the tissue inside the urethra that is causing all of the problems related to your enlarged prostate.  

   This is what happens in any surgical procedure that involves *removing tissue* whether it is by a traditional TURP procedure or the more recently developed laser surgical methods ... or

    

2. *shrinks* the enlarged prostate itself thus reducing the pressure on the urethra.

   This is the method that involves using microwave energy or heat radiation to *heat* an enlarged prostate and actually kill prostate cells ... thus reducing an enlarged prostate's size.   Also falling into this method would be all of the herbs and prescription drugs that are intended to shrink the prostate and reduce or eliminate associated symptoms.   

    

So, when the tissue is removed ( either from the urethra of that squeezing the urethra) , so is the *pressure* removed ....and with TURP surgery, that pressure is removed all at once!!!!

You are probably getting the idea where this is going.

After surgery, the bladder continues to squeeeeeeeeze as though the resistance was still there ......  even though it is not. 

That force of the bladder squeezing against a blockage that is no longer there causes painful cramping.

The human body is a remarkable creation and can adjust to new circumstances affecting it --- but that takes some time.

In the same way that the enlarged prostate caused an increase of the force necessary to relieve yourself, the removal of the tissues causing an enlarged prostate will decrease the pressure necessary to empty your bladder.

In my case, the cramping gradually disappears as the bladder returns to a normal state .... this process took about 3 weeks for the cramping to become mild and 6 weeks to disappear completely.

If I had known to expect this cramping when my enlarged prostate was operated upon  ... I would not have been so surprised when it happened.

 

 

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