What Does Sexual Function After Prostate Surgery Look Like?

Procedures for BPH have side effects. A diminished sex life doesn’t have to be one of them. There’s nothing like the prospect of an upcoming medical procedure or surgery to send the ol’ anxiety into overdrive.

Procedures for BPH have side effects. A diminished sex life doesn’t have to be one of them.

There’s nothing like the prospect of an upcoming medical procedure or surgery to send the ol’ anxiety into overdrive. Heck, even a routine cavity filling is enough to keep people up the night before. And when a potential side effect is sexual dysfunction, as is the case with many procedures used to treat an enlarged prostate gland—also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH—the situation can be even more nerve-racking.