Your Good Health: Does eating chocolate before bed help with nightly urination?

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 75-year-old male who has had benign prostatic hyperplasia for about 20 years and have taken tamsulosin during this time. I have always had to urinate at least once per night and up to three to four times per night periodically.

Chocolate tends to make OAB worse, so I don’t think OAB is likely in your case. I tried to find out why chocolate might make BPH better. Some studies found that it may work as a hormone blocker , but I doubt that’s the case for you, since finasteride takes weeks or months to become effective. Chocolate has fewer side-effects than many of our prescription drugs, though, so I wouldn’t dissuade you from enjoying your modest dose of chocolate at night.

For example, one ad said that there was an 85% rate of protection for those who took the medication. My question is, what happens to the unfortunate few who are in the 15%? Do they get a full-blown case of the ailment, or do they get a milder form of the ailment? What happens to them?The answer really depends on the particular condition. Since you mention “protection,” I can think of many ads I see for the shingles vaccine.

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