Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why You Have To Urinate Multiple Times at Night? #shorts #prostatehealth #BPH #enlargedprostate

30 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this short video, Dr. Anne Truong explains that an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia) presses on the urethra, narrowing the urinary channel. This compression weakens the urine stream and prevents the bladder from emptying completely, leaving residual urine. The incomplete emptying leads to the need to urinate more often, including multiple trips during the night (nocturia). The explanation links prostate enlargement directly to the symptoms of weak stream, prolonged voiding, and frequent nighttime urination.

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If the prostate is enlarged, it compresses or it press down on the urethra or the tube where you urinate, it presses down. So that's the reason why, when you have an enlarged prostate, difficult to urinate, the stream is not as strong as it used to be. And then when you urinate, you have incomplete emptying because the prostate is enlarged and you still have urine left over in the bladder. That's why sometimes you have to urinate twice and it takes you a long time to urinate, and that's why you have to urinate multiple times at nighttime.