Can I have sex with prostate hyperplasia?

Prostatic hyperplasia is a common prostate disease. When suffering from prostatic hyperplasia, patients will feel difficulty urinating, frequent urination, and increased urination frequency. If the symptoms are severe, it will also cause complications such as urinary tract infection and bladder stones, which will bring greater threats to the patient's health. When suffering from prostatic hyperplasia, timely treatment is required, and good living habits should be developed in life.

Can I have sex with prostate hyperplasia?

Generally speaking, men begin to have prostate hyperplasia after the age of 40, but symptoms do not begin to appear until after the age of 50, and only about 10% of cases are severe enough to require surgical treatment. The earliest symptom is frequent urination, especially frequent urination at night, which is due to prostate congestion. Difficulty urinating is another early symptom. Due to prostate congestion, the sympathetic nerves are excited, erections are more frequent at night, and sexual impulses will also increase. If you have sex at this time, it may aggravate the congestion of the hypertrophic prostate, cause the prostate smooth muscle to contract, and thus aggravate the symptoms of difficult urination. With the end of sexual intercourse, the congestion will gradually subside, the muscle contraction will gradually relax, and the symptoms of difficult urination will gradually ease. However, if you indulge in sexual activity for a long time, the sympathetic nerves will often be in an excited state, and the enlarged prostate will be congested for a long time, which may aggravate the urination obstruction and cause adverse effects on your health.

Symptoms of prostate hyperplasia

1. Bladder stones:

When the urinary tract is unobstructed, stones generally do not grow in the bladder. Even if stones fall from the ureter into the bladder, they can be discharged with urine. However, patients with prostatic hyperplasia have obstructed urinary tracts and are therefore prone to bladder stones.

2. Difficulty in urination:

Slow urination, labored urination, weak ejaculation, thin urine stream, dribbling urine, incomplete urination, etc.

3. Hematuria:

The amount of bleeding varies and is mostly intermittent. Occasionally, there is heavy bleeding, with blood clots filling the bladder, which requires emergency treatment.

4. Urinary retention and incontinence:

Too much residual urine can cause the bladder to lose its ability to contract, and the urine retained in the bladder gradually increases. When the bladder is over-swollen, urine will overflow from the urethra unconsciously.

5. Frequent and urgent urination:

The most common symptom is frequent urination, which gradually worsens, especially increased urination at night.

6. Hydronephrosis and uremia:

Prostatic hyperplasia compresses the urethra for a long time, and bladder urine will flow back into the ureter and renal pelvis, causing hydronephrosis and uremia.

7. Urinary tract infection:

Patients often have varying degrees of urinary retention, which can cause infection once bacteria multiply.