I take a daily dose of Tamsulosin and Finasteride. Still have some manageable problems - I never pass a gents - but since starting them the acute urinary retention which put me in hospital a couple of times has not reoccurred. Of the pills I take, they are the ones that I am quite sure I could not do without, so yes, they have done wonders for my general welfare.
Usual caveat... that's my experience, no suggestion that somebody elses experience would be the same.
PS... have you sorted out a doctors appointment to talk it through?