Have BPH (enlarged Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) and get up 2 to 3 times at night to urinate. I use Flomax daily.
My urology doctor says that I should get either GreenLight Laser (TUIP) or Transurethal resection of Prostate (TURP) surgery done. He says both procedures are safe. (He was leaning more towards Laser surgery).
My questions are:
a) Which one of the two procedures is safer?
b) After the surgery, urine flow will improve without medication but what about the FREQUENCY. Will I still have to get up at night to pass urine? (In other words, will it increase the capacity of my bladder?)

My doctor is non-committal. He says "it may".

He did not mention, but I now find out that he is participating in a study that uses 120-watt GreenLight Laser to treat enlarged prostates

Interesting question, why would he say you need surgery, is your prostate cancerous?Have you had a biopsy done? I have never heard of the laser treatment but I did have a radical prostectamy done 18 months ago because I had cancer.I never had to get up to pee dureing the night now I have to,lol.Doesent make sense.I have no prostate but yet now I have to pee dureing the night.Try another doctor to see what he has to say :).. good luck