Overactive Bladder in Men: Causes and Solutions
Half of middle-aged men experience Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) including poor or intermittent urine stream; straining to urinate; a sudden urge to urinate or having to get up several times during the night to urinate.
These symptoms increase with age and most men think they are a prostate issue, but half the time they are due to a bladder problem. The prostate is adjacent to the bladder and they do impact on each other, which can confuse the origin of symptoms.
Generally speaking male urinary symptoms including difficulty emptying or voiding — such as hesitancy, intermittency, weak stream, dribbling and the feeling that your bladder hasn’t fully emptied — are due to prostate enlargement.
Nocturia (or urinating more than twice during the night) may be due to the prostate, but it may equally be due to a bladder storage problem of overactive bladder (OAB).
Overactive bladder symptoms in men
- Urinary urgency (or having to rush to the toilet)
- Urinary frequency (more than 8 toilet visits in a 24-hour period)
- Nocturia (urinating several times during the night)
- Urinary incontinence (bladder accidents)
What causes OAB in men?
The cause of overactive bladder is unknown, but it is thought to be a miscommunication between the brain and the bladder.
If you have healthy bladder function, as the bladder nears capacity nerves send messages to the brain that the bladder needs to be emptied, and you can control the emptying. If you have an overactive bladder the muscle contracts involuntarily, before your bladder is even full, you get a sudden urge to urinate which you can’t control and bladder accidents (incontinence) happen.
Prorox: a new scientifically proven solution for overactive bladder in men
Seipel Group’s best-selling men’s bladder control formula is dual-action Prorox. Published randomized, placebo-controlled trials prove that it reduces symptoms of overactive bladder (urgency, frequency, nocturia and incontinence) by improving the tone of the bladder muscle and surrounding areas.
It also reduces the excessive neural firing that occurs with OAB, and it works faster than other formulations for bladder control with results starting from 2 weeks.* And Prorox also supports a healthy prostate.
So, if you’re reading this and are frustrated by how often you get the urge to urinate, or are tired of worrying about bladder accidents, or of getting interrupted sleep (one of the most bothersome bladder symptoms) try Prorox, for prostate and bladder support!