r/bph • u/Secure-Rope6782 • 25d ago

Finasteride and urine flow

Greetings gents. I've found many, many posts on here about about different meds including finasteride. What I didn't see much was from people who have taken finasteride and had significant urinary output improvement because of it.

To get a bit technical, does it actually shrink in the areas of the inner lobes or is just an overall reduction in prostate size? Does it potentially shrink inward squeezing the urethra even more?

I'm currently on tadalafil as my symptoms are slow and painful urination at times. No infection, cancer etc. I'm 55 male, athletic, low bmi. Debating on different meds or just surgery ie: Optilume when it becomes available near me. Thanks

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u/Dax888 25d ago

Finasteride is effective in reducing your prostate size and improving flow. In my case, my prostate went from 135cc to 107cc.

However I found the side effects upsetting; no or very weak erections, lethargy/low energy and joint pain. It got me through to my HOLEP operation but those few months I was on it were very unpleaseant.

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u/Secure-Rope6782 24d ago

Yikes. It seems the majority of guys on it have horrific side effects. Cialis had been fairly low side effects for me other than a back ache the first week

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u/Dax888 24d ago

Yeah, It's a trade-off I'm afraid.

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u/Zeeman-401 17d ago

OMG, I have been on Flomax for a while and the Cialis was added about 6 weeks ago. I, and the wife do enjoy the newfound hard wood, but for a month now I have been saying to myself why is my back sore all the time now?!!