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ScottFree
ScottFree

Have been considering this now for months.  After seeing the latest long term results I set up a second consult with a Dr. Chis Davis who works out of Tampa General. There were NO serious side effects such as incontinence from anyone having a PAE, they now have almost 8 years of records.  He is a radiologist who has now done about 80.  He says he has had no problems but now only wants to work with patients with large prostates, that they react the best to the treatment and have the most problems with the other treatments.  I was approved through my BCBS group health policy as an exception due to high risk (bleeding and heart issues).  He says procedure is 2 to 4 hours as it is tricky to find the best path to the prostate as some of the veins are small.  They insert a folly cath just prior to the procedure and leave it in about an hour to use as a guide and then take it out.  You are in recovery about 3 hours and go home.  He says to stay inactive for 2 to 3 days and the main issue will likely be burning when you pee.

He also said to stay on the Jaylyn for a month as it takes a while to start shrinking then take every other day.  The follow up is not for 3 months, at that point, most can get off both flow max and avodart (Jaylyn).

Going to schedule for about two weeks from now, will update.

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  • Pepasan
    Pepasan ScottFree

    Posted

    Thanks for posting. Will be very interested in your progress. Best of luck with the procedure and I wish you have a good result.
    • roy_z
      roy_z Pepasan

      Posted

      Thanks for the info, VA Dr. says my situation requires the Uroligy, for my need to get off of meds because of Heart disease. Needed info from those who have had the procedure, and their results from recovery. Haven't heard anything about how long those bands last, if anyone knows please advise. Thanks!

  • ben_87928
    ben_87928 ScottFree

    Posted

    Hi Scott,

    Thank you for the posting.  With Dr Chris Davis it sounds as though you've found a capable experienced interventionist radiologist.

    I'm personally seriously considering PAE or HoLEP .  I have a very large prostates apparently over 140 CC.  From what I can gather the HoLEP and PAE clinicians prefer to work on the larger prostates, as the statistics indicate more favourable outcomes with the large ones!

    Apparently one of the advantages of having the PAE before HoLEP is that if no benefit is forthcoming, the HoLEP procedure can if necessary sometime later follow.  And importantly from what I can find out, done without any problems.

    Scott, you also mentioned about seeing the latest long-term results, I'd be interested to read the information too. Would it be possible please to point me in the right direction to the info.

  • richard11472
    richard11472 ScottFree

    Posted

    Best of luck with the procedure, I am almost sold on the PAE, but still thinking about either Urolift orbthe mri guided ablation. The recovery serms to be the easiest with the PAE, which is a good check in its favor.

    Looking forward to hear about how things progresd for you.

    Rick

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