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12/18/2020 6:45 am
Greetings, longtime lurker here.
Using the Aneros obviously increases all kinds of activity in and around the prostate: more blood moving through, more muscle contractions, more growth factors, more sex hormones, more everything.
Would any of that play a role in increasing the size of the prostate? Obviously, something we want to avoid. But it's hard to believe it wouldn't happen.
Also, my understanding is that any session would increase PSA levels for a few days; but if you're using the Aneros regularly, that would also mean you'd have chronically-elevated PSA levels, right? And wouldn't that have an effect on prostate tissue over time?
Not my bailiwick by any stretch of the imagination. So will someone either confirm or set me straight here? 🙂
Many thanks for all the great threads!
Butters
12/22/2020 2:57 pm
I have definitely found the opposite to be true for me. I had not been using Aneros for a long time and I was starting to get BPH symptoms. Free time from covid got me back into the swing of it and all my symptoms disappeared. I don't intend to stop again!
Topic starter
12/23/2020 12:40 pm
No it will not increase the size of your prostate gland. Sex, prostate massage, even a physician's digital rectal exam can raise PSA levels transiently, but those causes of temporary PSA increase are not harmful.
That makes sense; however, if you're using the aneros every or every other night, "transient" increases in PSA are now effectively "constant".
Topic starter
12/23/2020 12:41 pm
12/23/2020 1:10 pm
PSA is not in itself harmful.
It is an innocent protein that happens to be created by prostate tissue growth or stimulation. It is therefore used as a diagnostic for undesired prostate growth.
I would like to hear an expert's answers to these questions:
- if you have early stage prostate cancer, and you increase blood flow to the organ (by physical stimulation), is that extra blood flow likely to increase the speed of the undesired tissue growth? Or (unlikely) does the extra blood help the immune system control the growth? Or neither?
- by what mechanism could physical prostate stimulation help manage BPH (which is an Aneros claim)? I don't see how it could curtail the benign growth. BPH is simply the excess benign growth (with age) of the central part of the prostate, which then squeezes the urethra. I would expect the aneros to increase pelvic muscle tone, but I don't know how that would relate to BPH symptoms (though tone does help manage over-active bladder)
darwin
12/24/2020 5:57 am
@darwin, I'm no expert on the prostate by any stretch but I believe that prostate massage facilitates better emptying of the acini that are responsible for the fluid production thus decreased size. Whatever the mechanism, I'm certainly glad that Aneros use has had a positive impact. I went from inadequate voiding with annoying residual drip to full strong stream with complete voiding.
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