Hi Reynolds,

I tried to send this to you in a PM, but I don't have 50 posts, so the system won't let me send a PM. Grrrr! As I can seriously sympathize with you, I'll take the risk of exposing myself here. Grumble, gripe ...

My experience was that the enlargement process kept going to where I gave up cycling for about a year as too uncomfortable. But then the process just kept going until the discomfort became nearly full time. The process does that. It doesn't just stop.

So off to the doc who recommended either a drug (Avodart in my case) that shrinks the prostate or one of the surgeries that burns away some of the mass of the prostate.

I hate the idea of surgery and I also do not like taking drugs, so I dithered for a few months until it all got to where even sitting in a chair was uncomfortable. I've been using the Avodart now for just over 4 months and the relief has been dramatic. I'm riding again with no discomfort. Just like old times!

No side effects for me. All is good. The warnings that come with Avodart scared me off when I first picked up the prescription, but the pharmacist printed out a more detailed reporting of the percentages of users who had side effects over month one, month two, month three, etc. Basically, if you don't get side effects after month one, your chances for side effects go waaay down and they are pretty low to begin with. If you do get side effects, you can just stop taking the drug and those problems will go away.

That's my 2 cents worth!

Best to you,

Reid