I'm a 22 year old male and was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate.

I have no idea if it's cancerous or not, but i haven't had an appetite since friday November 15. Thursday was the last official time i felt super hungry. I'm losing weight. i dropped from 154 to 143 and just today bought a scale. I'm at 140 now. I'm usually very very hungry and eat a lot. i was also stressing a lot(literally everyday up until now) and the death of my grandma on the 19th. of October was the cause for it. I have anxiety which doesn't help. A range of symptoms i was experiencing was: trouble urinating(i haven't peed normal in awhile i don't think, but when i say trouble i refer to me taking a few seconds to be able to urinate), very weak stream, dribbling, not feeling like i was emptying my bladder, i could barely tell when i had to pee, i even before all this would constantly wake up in the night to pee.(probably about 2 or 3 times every night) It sucks because i have no insurance and am going to a meeting with an agent for it on the 26th. They prescribed me flomax which instantly helped a few minutes after taking it. i got the usual side effects from it the first time around and i felt horrible afterwards. it didn't help that i had to work that morning. I wasn't as strong as i was, my legs were getting tired really fast, and i felt slight fatigue, and also my nose was super freaking stuffy. I was very tired at the end of my shift, but didn't fall asleep when i got home. My bladder was going good til the end of the night rolled around. i started to have a bad stream again and some of the problems i mentioned earlier. I took my second dose of it and it didn't seem to help instantly like last time. it wasn't till i officially woke up and started drinking water that it went back to a good state. I also to my surprise did not experience any side effects this second time around. I should mention that before i found out i had an enlarged prostate i was getting back pain. I wanna say i only experienced this 3 times. Twice while at work and once when i was just sitting in my chair. The possible last two things i should mention is that sometimes i feel like I'm burning up and for the past few times i have taken the flomax i have been waking up with night sweats. I'm not drenched in sweat either, but I'm definitely sweating. (i was seeing a bunch of things where the sweating side effect doesn't happen i believe or is uncommon and i saw one medical thing where it said you could sweat from flomax) the burning up thing is a iffy thing though. it can be hot in my room sometimes. i have been trying to keep it cool lately. I noticed that on certain days when i was at work i had so much trouble focusing and it was hard for me to work properly. i also had been on 2 days off and was a little rusty when i came back which for me i feel is a normal thing. The fact that i couldn't focus and was rusty just sucked. I wanna say my memory was a little iffy too, but i just think about so much stuff that that possibly could have been why i was forgetting little things a lot. I don't think I'm depressed, but since I'm very concerned for my well being i haven't been the same lately. i guess I'm going to end it here. if i missed any symptoms or anything i forgot to mention then I'll try and male sure to get them down. Every and any advice is greatly appreciated! I just wanna get better.

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