The UroLift System is a proven minimally invasive procedure to treat an enlarged prostate. The procedure is typically performed as a same-day outpatient procedure, including the office setting, under local anesthesia.
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Transcript:
hi guys i'm dr michael hyman i'm what they have designated as a center of excellence for UroLift that just means i've done several hundred of these so um i speak from experience when i talk about um all the reasons why UroLift is in my opinion a game changer and i do have a lot of experience in terms of telling people what it's like to go through it and what it's like to recover from it
frankly the recovery is a pretty quick one and a pretty simple one that basically means a few days
as far as the acute recovery period
so what i tell my patients is plan on um you know if you work and you come in here for UroLift on a monday i would definitely take off obviously the monday and a tuesday you probably can go back to work on a wednesday
that's not for everyone but i would say that's for the majority um and when i say go back to work that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to feel completely normal you'll probably still be urinating frequently you may see a little blood-tinged urine at that point and you may find that you have to kind of run to the bathroom a little bit um
so you know as far as getting those symptoms to resolve it may take another week to really get back to your baseline and what i always tell guys is roughly two weeks before you really start to
potentially see improvement
i would say about half the patients that i see at the two week post-op period tell me they've really seen some benefits but half of them will say haven't really noticed much change definitely nothing worse um those guys of those 50 that are telling me that they need another couple of weeks sometimes and then at that point i would say 90 of them are on board as far as telling me yes they notice that their stream is stronger they're not going as much they're not getting up as night at night as much um honestly it can go out even a couple of months before you really get the maximum benefit from this procedure
again the first few days are probably the most difficult ones and honestly it's mostly just seeing a little bit of blood in your urine a little bit of that urgent urination you also may get some burning you may get a little pain in the pelvic area
i always tell guys take some tylenol um in the beginning and then once their urine clears up and it's yellow again they can take ibuprofen aleve advil anything like that
another good thing you can do on the day of the procedure when you get home if you're feeling achy down there is you can do a an epsom salts bath like one to two cups of epsom salts which you can pick up at rite aid or cvs put it in a nice hot bath and sit in there for 15 minutes that'll help settle things down quite a bit
and really generally everything settles down quickly in terms of my own practice i always offer my patients very easy approach to contact me i can give them my cell phone number i can give them my email address they can reach me at any time after the procedure and i'm happy to give them any kind of feedback they need okay
so if you are interested feel free to reach out to us and you can email for any questions
d-r-h-y-m-a-n at d-r-h-y-m-a-n-net dr hyman drhyman.net
alright take care
6 сен 2021
