I've reversed my BPH, but my doctor doesn't seem to think that's unusual. Is BPH reversal more common than I thought?
Around the end of 2020, my prostate took a turn for the worse. Before that, I was having a lot of typical symptoms like needing to urinate frequently and getting up in the middle of the night. But in 2020, I started getting fevers.
With a urologist, I confirmed that the fevers were a result of urinary tract infections, caused by my prostate expanding. My first ultrasound exam showed my prostate was at about 40cc, then a year later, it went up to about 50cc. The fevers seemed to be increasing in frequency, as well as the day to day symptoms getting slightly worse.
I started to look into ways to deal with this, and both by talking with my doctor and looking up information online, it seemed that there were only two options available, surgery or medicine. And both had potential side effects and limitations.
I really want to emphasize that as far as I could tell, surgery and medicine were the only options I could see anyone talking about with any kind of credibility. I've seen a handful of different urologists, and they all said the same thing. Surgery or medicine.
Around May of 2024, though, without going into all the details of what led me to it, I had an idea that some kind of massage treatment might work, and I developed my own approach to it.
By six months later, although my prostate had continued to increase up to 60cc, all my day to day symptoms had disappeared. Frequency was way down, and I could sleep through the night.
Then, at about two years after I started my treatment, my prostate had gone down to 30cc.
I made this chart showing my prostate size change over time, as well as marking out when I had the fevers, and when I started doing my treatment:
So, I thought I had discovered something potentially new and exciting. A non invasive, non medicinal way to reverse BPH.
I confirmed my prostate size was definitely smaller now with an MRI, then I went to my urologist, and I told him all about the massage that I was doing, expecting his mind to be blown. Everything I read online and had heard from doctors was that BPH was simply not reversible.
But, my doctor didn't seem to react much at all. He wasn't skeptical or even particularly surprised. He just said it was good that my prostate was down, and that he had heard that maybe in other countries they might suggest some kind of massage, but, here in Japan, where I am, it's not something they recommend.
I can't quite understand his reaction. In part because, whether or not it can be confirmed that it was my massage treatment that was the cause, isn't the fact that my prostate went down in size for any reason a notable event? From what I gather, that just doesn't happen.
Maybe I'm delusional, but I thought this was something remarkable. If what I'm doing works, wouldn't that be something a doctor would want to look into? But he didn't ask a single question about it. Not like he was cold in any way, he's a friendly guy and usually really good at communicating. It was just that he treated it like it wasn't a big deal at all.
So, did I get the wrong impression? Is reversing BPH through massage something that is well known? Or is it not that unusual for a prostate to go down sometimes for some reason or another? Is the fact that I reversed my BPH no big deal?