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What is enlarged prostate (BPH)?

BPH – or benign prostatic hyperplasia – is when your prostate is enlarged, but not cancerous.

There are two times in life when your prostate grows. The first is early in your teen years (puberty), when the prostate doubles in size. The second begins around age 25 and often results years later in benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH.

As the prostate grows later in life, it can "squeeze" the urethra and partly block the flow of urine, like a clamp on a garden hose. The wall of the bladder becomes thicker and irritable and begins to contract or shrink, even when it contains only a small amount of urine. This can cause the feeling that you have to urinate, even though your bladder isn't full. These contractions weaken the bladder muscles, so the bladder doesn't empty completely when you urinate.

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