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Symptoms of Prostate disease
Prostate enlargement produces a range of signs and symptoms. These include:·
- slowness and difficulty in starting to urinate (hesitancy),
- dribbling or a poor urine stream,
- sudden strong desire to urinate (urgency),
- leakage associated with this (urge incontinence),
- a feeling of incomplete emptying owing to residual urine in the bladder,
- inability to empty the bladder (acute or chronic urinary retention),
- excessive number of visits to the toilet (frequency), and
- getting up at night to urinate (nocturia).
Symptoms of bacterial prostatitis include:
- pain felt mainly at the base of the penis and around the anus and lower back. Pain may spread to the penis and testes,
- symptoms of a urine infection - pain on passing urine, frequency, urgency and, sometimes, blood in the urine,
- fever and general aches and pains, and
- a slight discharge from the penis
Symptoms of non-bacterial prostatitis include:·
- pain or discomfort at the base of the penis and around the anus. Ejaculation may be painful. The pain may vary in severity and lasts for several months,
- mild urinary urgency, poor urinary stream and mild pain on passing urine, and
- general tiredness with aches and pains.
Prostate cancer (see Prostate cancer) is the second most common cancer in men. Symptoms are similar to those of prostate enlargement, and on rectal examination the gland is felt to be very hard and irregular. There may even be indications that the tumour has already spread to other parts of the body, often to the bones.
