Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

How a 200g Prostate Destroys Your Urination 🚽 #FrequentUrination #BPH

6 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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An enlarged prostate can grow to 200g, six times its normal size, and physically squeeze the urethra and bladder. Dr. Anne Truong explains how this pressure causes urgent and incomplete urination, and describes TURP surgery, where doctors shave away the obstructing tissue.

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You're 6 times larger than what normal size is. So when the prostate is enlarged, it presses on your urethra when you go pee, when you urinate. Here's the urethra and it goes through the and where you urinate, right? When it's like 200 grams, it's heavy. It presses on the urethra. It also presses on the bladder as well too. That's why you have urgency. That's why sometimes you have incomplete emptying of the urine. That's why you require TURP. With TURP, they go through your And they just shave off the prostate area that is compressing your urethra. But when it's enlarged, the nerve that goes to the peepee here sits on top of the prostate here, the pudendal nerve.