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Is HoLep recovery worth the procedure?
Men's Health | Last Active: Jul 8 11:16am | Replies (86)Comment receiving replies
@rwinpa this parallels the experience I had. My surgeon was relatively young and I was so anxious to plunge ahead I never challenged him on his experience. I believe I was also a “practice with no mentoring surgeon” patient whose urethra was wrecked by excessive rectoscope time and manipulation. Similarly surgeon considered a smaller prostate a successful outcome and now just wants to hand me off for AUS. I’m now reluctant to jump into that and certainly won’t let the UW practice touch me again.
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@hhibird your experience makes me want to ask lots of questions of a prospective surgeon. I really don’t know what questions to ask except for how many have they done and what is the number of successful outcomes?
Since I’m new to this would you tell me what is AUS and UW? I don’t get proper answers when searching online.
Right now I am considering PAE, Aquablation, or HoLEP. In that order. I had to get my primary care physician to send in a referral to UCSF Interventional Radiology so I could get a consultation with their physician.
UCSF doesn’t do Aquablation so I have an appointment in three weeks to find out more about that.
The doctor who does HoLEP hasn’t contacted me yet.
I tell you guys, I am scared. I am trying my best to decide with as much education as I can get. I’d like to get things moving before I need a catheter.