 [ Symptoms ] what treatments are available for an enlarged prostate [ Disease ] treatments for enlarged prostate include watchful waiting patients who have an enlarged prostate but who are not suffering symptoms or whose symptoms are not bothersome may be advised by their doctor to merely get an annual checkup which might include a variety of tests making lifestyle changes changes could include limiting drinking at night and before bedtime especially drinks containing alcohol or caffeine drug therapy two common treatments for bph are alpha blockers which alleviate bph symptoms and 5 alpha reductase inhibitors which help shrink the prostate many men take them together surgery this is generally used for men with severe symptoms who have not been helped by other treatment