Colleen,

Thank you for those references. I will say that those references lead to others about PAE and to a great overview of treatments by an Arizona Mayo doc. I have also found online an enthusiastic discussion of PAE by members of the Yale Medical School.

As to my own treatment, I'm looking forward with an open mind to my first visit with a Mayo team on July 7.

Thank you Colleen for remembering me, I thought no one had any interest in this subject.

Bruce, I’m away from my office until Thursday but I have some information there that may be helpful. I did find out that the pre procedure process is important for the success of the procedure. If I remember correctly if enlargement is in inner lobe there is a higher rate of failure, I’ll confirm that Thursday.

I am seriously considering the procedure after my Uro recommended me going on finasteride in addition to tamsulosin. Too many negative problems with that. I decided to research alternatives and found different studies on botanicals that I thought I would try. I used all the clinical strengths and must say in conjunction with tamsulosin I am pretty much improved with no reason to rush to do anything else at this time. My goal is to eventually get off tamsulosin, which I have tried every other day with no problems but I won’t go any further without doctor’s supervision. Talk to you soon,
Bill