What Causes Urinary Retention?

Posted on Wed, 27 Apr 2016

Question: Had an issue with slow urination. This evening it came to almost a complete stop. When I have to urinate it is very slow, some pain and difficult completely empty my bladder.
I have had slow urination, but this worsened very suddenly this evening

Answered by Dr. Manuel C See IV (22 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
You may have prostate enlargement

Detailed Answer:
Good day and thank you for being with healthcare magic! Your symptoms are clearly a sign of prostate enlargement and prostate obstruction. Have you had a prostate checkup before?

An enlarged prostate causes impedance in the urine flow making it hard for you to urinate. Patients with abnormal urination also are more prone to get infection (UTI).

If you are unable to urinate now or just trickles of urine comes out then you should proceed to the emergency room for urethral catheterization to drain you urine.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar