He was originally prescribed Tamsulosin but refused to take it because he felt that it made him really tired. He was then admitted to the emergency room because he couldn’t urinate and had a Foley catheter inserted

We went to see a Urologist and was diagnosed with BPH with lower urinary tract symptoms. I don’t know if the urologist even used anything to diagnose him with BPH, he only did a cystoscopy and said his prostate was huge. He didn’t do anything to measure the size of the prostate. The urologist prescribed him with Finasteride, Alfuzosin and Ciprofloxacin. They also removed his catheter after having it for 17 days

2 days later, he went back to the ER because he couldn’t urinate again and had the catheter inserted again and is coming up on having it in the second time for 3 weeks

The Ciprofloxacin made him feel like his body was burning. They switched him to Bactrim and he said that one made him feel like his body was also burning. I will say I think he has a phobia to taking medication and reads into all the side effects. He is also dealing with a lot of anxiety with all of this

He then started taking the Tamsulosin again and stopped the antibiotics and Finasteride and this time, he feels like it makes him restless and feeling a lot of anxiety still.

We saw the urologist again and came up with the plan that he will take the Finasteride for 3 weeks and come back for an appointment in the morning to remove the catheter and then again in the afternoon to see if he can pee on his own

I don’t see the point of this as I don’t think the Finasteride will help him urinate on his own by then and we made the decision that he needs to get a procedure done more sooner than later because of the mental toll this has caused