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Male 56. Suddenly developed painful urination 2 days ago. Walk in clinic gave me cipro and an anesthetic.

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Urologist: Dr. Y., Urologist replied 9 years ago

With the acute onset of this wetness, this is certainly not due to BPH. This is almost certainly due to an associated urinary tract infection.Urinary tract infections can lead to bladder spasms which can cause you to leak urine. This is probably what is going on in your case. Once the infection is treated completely, the bladder will calm down and the leakage will stop. This may take one to two weeks to clear up. Hope this helps and let me know if you have questions.

Answer 2

Urologist: Dr. Y., Urologist replied 9 years ago

bladder spasms can happen during and after urination. It is very possible that you have an infection eight months ago and did not know about it.
This leakage may also be due to postvoid dribbling which can happen in men as they get older due to urine that is trapped in the urethra. You need to make sure that you try to milk out all of the urine from the urethra by running your finger from the base of the penis near the scrotum to the end of the urethra after you urinate.

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Urologist: Dr. Y., Urologist replied 9 years ago

The sudden onset of a urine infection in a male can be due to incomplete bladder emptying or prostatitis. It is possible that BPH could lead to incomplete bladder emptying. But if your urine is running down your leg during your stream, this indicates to me that you may have a problem with the flow of the current through the urethra and this could indicate scar tissue in the urethra called a stricture. When the urologist or your primary doctor does a rectal exam, this can help to determine if you have BPH or not, but the absence of an enlarged prostate on exam does not necessarily rule out the prostate as the problem. This is because the portion of the urine stream that the urine runs through is located in the central portion of the prostate that cannot be felt on exam and sometimes, the tissue is enlarged on the inner side of the prostate. Sometimes, we have to perform cystoscopy to look inside the urine channel to see if the prostate is enlarged.

Male 56. Suddenly developed painful urination 2 days ago. Walk in clinic gave me cipro and an anesthetic.

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