Two of the most common urinary conditions affecting men are urethral stricture and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
Learn how people are treating their urinary symptoms without the long recovery, retreatments, and sexual dysfunction
Fundamentally, stricture is a scar tissue situation caused by injury, infection, and urological procedures like DVIU (direct vision internal urethrotomies), dilations, and surgery. They can scar during healing, so your stricture treatment could be why you’re back in the waiting room.
More common in men who have experienced:
Normal prostate growth can cause BPH and make it worse: your prostate continues to grow your whole life, putting more pressure on your urethra. How fast or slow it grows can affect how long symptom management and watchful waiting remain effective.
More common in men who experience:
That’s completely normal, the symptoms can overlap. The best first step is speaking to a healthcare provider who can diagnose your condition.
Optilume® is a breakthrough minimally invasive treatment developed by Laborie. Using a drug coated balloon technology, Optilume® simultaneously opens the affected area and delivers paclitaxel, a clinically proven drug, directly to the tissue to prevent recurrence. It is FDA-approved for both urethral strictures and BPH.
“When I had my first appointment to come back to do a follow-up I was like I don’t know what we’re going to talk about because everything is great”
“I don’t have to think about where’s the closest bathroom when I’m going to go to a restaurant with my family and try to make sure that I’m at a table near the restroom”
“The biggest thing for me is that I am essentially 100% voiding”
“I haven’t had these urges I get to the bathroom and so on and so forth and feel confident that I don’t have to you know be on standby every two seconds.”
“I’ve just passed the a very positive Euro flow test and my PVR is low so it’s kind of no longer concerned I’m kind of pushing it in the back of my mind”
“Oh yeah quality life has improved, I can garden and I can go out in my yard do what I want.”
“There’s been absolutely no change in my urinary function, the stream is just like it was when I was in my twenties it’s been just about exactly a year since he got Optilume and if I had not found out about it and not had that procedure done I’d be sitting here wearing a bag with a tube through my stomach so it really was a life-changing thing to have learned about.”
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