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Re: “So AUS does accompany a stricture in some cases.”

To be clear, a stricture must be addressed before an AUS is implanted. That means an additional procedure before the AUS and therefore an additional thing that can go wrong, in which case the patient may end up not at square one, but at square -1. That’s the downside risk factor I chose to avoid when a clamp and a pad didn’t intrude on my life style.

Re:” Your days are nearly up.”
I’m sorry that is your state of mind. Since I do not know exactly your circumstances I an reticent to comment, the night I was diagnosed with incurable Non-Hodgkins lymphoma 20 years ago the median survival time was 3-4 years. I went outside to walk the dog and thought “so this is how I’m gonna die. I always wondered about it.”

There’s a song by David Bowie called Modern Love, and although the theme of the song is cynical, I choose to remember one lyric that goes: “Modern love gets me to the church on time”. — Modern medicine keeps me (us) alive even with our skepticism.