Saw the urologist Tim Larner at the Hove Nuffield Hospital on Tuesday.
He did a DRE, then had me do a flow-rate test, after which he checked
residual with ultrasound, then I did the IPS questionnaire (scored
17).

It's been over a year since I had my PVP on 11/19/02, and I can
say today I've never had any medical procedure that gave me more
benefit, and satisfaction. It has improved my life tremendously.
I am now 74 plus. I have posted a number of times under a different

I have had BPH symptoms on and off for 10 years or so. In recent years I've
been on Hytrin and later on flomax and they have worked wonders.
It has also bought me more time. After perusing this group for years, I am
convinced that if indeed I do have BPH and I need some action taken ...

It will be 7 weeks tomorrow and I can finally say that everything is
great!
The bleeding and the burning stopped last week after deciding to back
off of all heavy physical activity for two weeks. The burning was

I was wondering if anyone from Canada has ventured south of the border
(specifically to Rochester, N.Y.) to get PVP. My urologist gives me two
options that are covered by the Ontario Health Plan: TURP and microwave
(TUMP?) After reading articles here about PVP, I seems to me to ...

I've been on Flomax the last few years, and my life was contstantly
interrupted,
I went to a second opinion, and he wanted to do surgery, and put me also on
Avodart which made me impotent. Yechhh.I stopped the avodart,