Soy isoflavines-sold at Wal-Mart-have the vitamins the Japanese  get from
eating Soya-take 2 a day..
helps me...
you can also take a 5 minute Sitz bath-that is run hot water and sit in it
covering you groin area..that will cause the prostate to decrease and you
might pass some urine..

I take beta sisatrol-that is the active ingredient in saw palmetto..
get it as vitamin shoppe pretty inexpensive..
Michael

I would search out a doc who does PVP
The drugs can cause more problems than they cure
Soy products can damage thyroid

PVP is brilliant and having endured the misery of BPH then the drugs i wish
i had gone for PVP straight off

70gram median lobe removed by PVP July 2003

Lots stuf on this guy's blog.  Click and read more:
http://bph-prostate-enlarged.blogspot.com/

Also I found hear this newsgroup that you wrot to very helpful.  Som
eposters want to readlly help.  Just take yur time and read everything you
can.

Very sorry to hear that the problem has struck yet another of us.  There's
lots of good information on this newsgroup, but I do want to caution you to
NOT TAKE any one person's advice.  Your doctor ought to be your best buddy.
Though that's the theory, I have to admit, that had I not stumbled onto this
newsgroup at the RIGHT time, I would have suffered much more than I needed
to and, in the end,  I would never have learned about PVP and I would have
agreed to a TURP.  So, for me, thanks to this newsgroup.

When you read some of the earlier postings on this newsgroup you will notice
that I am a proponent of having your blood tested.  I feel it is
irresponsible for a doctor to prescribe attacking the DHT problem before
knowing it is a problem.  BPH can also result from other glandular factors
being out of whack.     If your DHT is high and those other factors are
normal, then you can go the route of blood-pressure-lowering medications,
called Alpha Blockers, such as FLOMAX, URAXATROL, and others; and/or you can
experiment with DHT inhibitors such as Saw Palmetto and Beta Sitosterol,
Pygeum, Pumpkin seeds, soy isoflavones (as suggested by Michael),  or even
prescriptions like AVODART and PROSCAR, etc.  If it is your estrogens or
prolactins that are driving your BPH then you need to look at diet modifiers
and other ways to minimize your estrogen intake and/or ways to boost your
testosterone, provided your doctor agrees with doing that.

I tried FLOMAX and hated it, switched to XATROL (Uraxatrol).  I also tried
Xatrol + PROSCAR and hated it, and in the end I decided to insist on a PVP.
I am THRILLED by the results.

Guys like Michael Balarama, and Gutbuster and others really do try to
provide useful info.  They have impressed me with their knowledge.

Sorry to hear you have the problem.  Here's wishing you the very best of
"outcomes"!

"Meatchief" <meatchief@hotmail.com> wrote in [SNIP] Doc prescribed me Flomax
and also said to try soy products.  [SNIP]...