TOPIC: IPP options

Samsdad,
I am also very sorry to hear your situation. As someone who has recently had a dermal fat graft removed, and still healing - I can\'t imagine alloderm, dermal fat grafts and silicone going in and out of my penis.

Do you mind me asking what caused the most trauma to your penis - the insertion operations or the Removal operations? Also with the alloderm and the fat graft was graft death the reason for the Removal? I am asking because I am still healing and trying to stay positive.

I wish I had something to add about Elist but I only know him from this board.

Thank you, Restoration. A good friend of mine on FrankTalk.org (which specializes in severe ED discussions, including IPP doctors) also recommends Dr Eid. I am meeting later this month with Dr Elist, and will try to set up a \'cyber consultation\' with Dr Eid. Another concern I have is that I am still in my 50\'s, and I worry about the \'life expectancy\' of an IPP, relative to my own personal life expectancy...and sure don\'t want to go through this twice. I am praying for a happy ending to this \'horror story\'! Again, thank you for your encouraging thoughts and words.

Sorry to hear about your penis woes.

One of the leading specialists in IPPs is Dr. Eid in NYC. I believe he does virtual consults, so you could start there. Your situation is very complex...and I don\'t know anything about Elist implants. You could potentially have Girth enhancement with Dr. Casavantes in Tijuana, though with your scar tissue - that might be more complicated so you\'d need to ask them. I think that is much safer than Dr. Elist, but I don\'t really know about the scenario you described with all of the stuff going on.

Some implants expand in length and Girth (the AMS LGX), but Eid doesn\'t like that one. My own Urologist also doesn\'t like that one. They both use Coloplast implants and find them more reliable.

Depending on where you are, you might just want to consult a male sexual function specialist / Urologist and see what info you can get.

Absolutely not! Are you asking if I am Chad Hedman, or whatever the name of the individual is/was who owned and operated MNS? My objective is to remain positive, however Chad...along with his friend/partner, Dan Salas...led me to ALL the doctors I identified with each of my failed surgeries, for their own financial gain. So, NO!...I am not Chad, Dan, a friend of Chad or Dan, nor a past present or future owner of MNS (or any other website...PE or otherwise). I am who and what I said I am...a man with a very challenging decision to make.

samsdad wrote: Absolutely not! Are you asking if I am Chad Hedman, or whatever the name of the individual is/was who owned and operated MNS? My objective is to remain positive, however Chad...along with his friend/partner, Dan Salas...led me to ALL the doctors I identified with each of my failed surgeries, for their own financial gain. So, NO!...I am not Chad, Dan, a friend of Chad or Dan, nor a past present or future owner of MNS (or any other website...PE or otherwise). I am who and what I said I am...a man with a very challenging decision to make.

They led you to the same Dr\'s, where you had the exact same problems! Chad had Alloderm with Rheinchild. Rheinchild actually only performed Alloderm for a short period of time and I don\'t think Chad ever had a formal business agreement with him. When he was doing Alloderm he wasn\'t working with Dan either, but TLE. So you\'d have had to have Alloderm in the short space of time when Rheinchild was offering it, but not working with Dan or Chad. So it seems odd they would have led you to Rheinchild.

Then it would be a huge coincidence for both you and Chad to both suffer from hardening of the graft. Chad then had his removed by Krakovsky and you claim to have done the same. You also decided to have a dermal graft at the same time, the same as Chad, which is yet another coincidence. Then by way of yet another massive coincidence Chad got a bad infection, meaning the graft needed to be removed and so did you!

Chad went to Dr Elist for Removal and by coincidence, so did you. Chad complained that Dr Elist found Alloderm that was supposed to be removed and guess what, so did you! Chad formed a capsule of scar tissue and so did you!

The last forum incarnation of Chad I know of was under the username \"Cecil\". Cecil\'s location was \"deep South.\" Now my US geography isn\'t great, but if I google \"deep south\" it comes up in wikipedia and lists Texas as part of that region. Also Chads wife left him, so it fits with you being single.

So you and Chad have had the same surgeries, by the same surgeons, in the same time period, with the same complications and are both single and living in Texas! It\'s almost as if you are twins, or even the same person!

Lastly Chad is a well known liar who would still try and deny he\'d been caught out, even when it\'s painfully obvious he has been.

Midnight, and no Castle2. I guess \'the Chad got your tongue\'.

PS: I will stay on Skype until midnight CST...about 45 more minutes...if you are serious.

Game (NBA & yours) are over, Columbo. You have my Skype address, and the opportunity to either prove your accusation...or your stupidity. Your move.

Back from dinner...I wonder if Chad is watching the game too?! I have 3 kids (does Chad?), and am not going to post pics for you or anyone, but I will do you one better, Sherlock. Right after the game, you can Skype me at \'papabearpk\' and see whatever you want to see...as long as you agree to admit that you were insultingly disrespectful, and wrong. That way, I don\'t have to hear your conspiracy theory about doctored photos and whatever other garbage you want to continue to spew. And at the same point in time, you can just agree to never comment on another one of my posts that...like all of my initial posts...comply with the rules and spirit of this forum, unlike your accusatory and demeaning intrusions.

You could post photos of your penis, with the scars and also your dermal graft scars. Have something with today\'s date in the photo. Obviously I\'d be going by memory, but I\'d be able to if it was Chad\'s penis and scars, as he has a big hole in his groin.

You have Chad\'s attitude, that for sure!

Off to dinner, and NBA watch, with my son...back later. PS: does Chad have a son too? Maybe they...coincidentally...have the same name! Let me know how you would like to confirm your paranoia and \'suspect\' detective \'skills\'.

Would you like to speak directly, or define how you would like to prove how wrong and paranoid you are?

samsdad wrote: ..maybe you should try trusting the people you profess to want to help, and who have done no harm to you, or anybody else for that matter...or just stick with the \'private Dick\' role you seem to enjoy playing more, and change your screen name to \'Castle2\'.

A lot of people trusted you Chad and it ended very badly for them.

In you last incarnation as \"Cecil\" you also denied being Chad, despite there being a hell of a lot of coincidences!

Fortunately, I don\'t care in the least what you think, nor who you think I am. I met Rheinschild in LA, did not want dermal graft scars, and so he reluctantly performed my alloderm surgery as a hired surgeon for a group in San Luis Obispo years later, with Dan in the operating room. The \'PE\' community was much smaller then, and there were few alternative sources to turn to in trying to escape the \'downward spiral\', despite my growing distrust for Dan and Chad. Dan subsequently referred me to Richard Wineland in Anaheim, and he was also present in that alloderm surgery. Chad later strongly recommended me to Krakovsky (who \'trained\' under Rheinschild in SLO) for dermal graft reconstructive surgery. Krakovsky butchered a lot of people...including both Chad & I. Chad had reconstructive surgery with Elist...recommended me to Elist for my reconstruction...and asked me to join a class action suit against Krakovsky, which I declined to participate in, or contribute to, per his request. Dan later encouraged me to see a black retired military doctor (who later lost his license), and (even later) a doctor he was working with in Tijuana. I have had no dealings with either of them...by choice and design...in the years since then, instead focusing on trying to address and resolve my own challenges...with the help of websites like FrankTalk.org, a far more supportive...and much less paranoid...forum than you have turned PhalloBoards into. And before you go adding more \'2s\' together and turning me simultaneously into the second gunman behind the grassy knoll...that coincidentally happened in Texas too!...maybe you should try trusting the people you profess to want to help, and who have done no harm to you, or anybody else for that matter...or just stick with the \'private Dick\' role you seem to enjoy playing more, and change your screen name to \'Castle2\'.

As a result of multiple failed...and ironically misnamed...\'PE\' surgeries, I am facing the reality of an \'inflatable penile prosthesis\' (IPP) as a last resort option to regain any kind of sexual function going forward. Without delving too deeply, or reliving too many painful (literally & figuratively) memories, I have endured failed alloderm (Rheinschild & Wineland), dermal graft (Krakovsky), and silicone (Elist) implant surgeries over more than a decade of ill-advised attempts to resolve my illogical male insecurities. I am an aesthetic mess, and a (dys)functional nightmare, with little to no remaining sensation. I have gotten multiple urological opinions that an IPP is my only remaining viable option. Here is where the true irony comes into the picture. Given the statistical reality that IPP surgery results in decreased Erect length and Girth in a clear majority of males, I have been researching for an option to minimize the odds of another disappointment. The two main alternatives appear to be either 1) praying that I find and experience an IPP surgeon who is one of the very few with a majority of their patients who end up with 90-95% or more of their pre-IPP surgical length and Girth dimensions, or 2) consider a \'dual procedure\' protocol with Dr Elist that utilizes his silicone implant to block/prevent length retraction following IPP surgery, and perhaps even increases the Girth of my penis. Before multiple members go \'berserk\' and question my already stipulated poor judgement, please hear me out. As flawed as the concept of thinking that men can safely rely on Dr Elist\'s silicone implant to enhance their \'non-IPP\' penises may be, my research and conversations with Dr Elist\'s patients who have used his silicone implant for the purposes I described, in concert with an IPP, have been consistently positive and satisfied. I cannot explain this phenomenon...but perhaps when the sensation and natural erectile function of the penis are compromised/gone, Dr Elist\'s silicone implant transforms from a \'curse\' into a \'blessing\'. Despite my failed experience with his implant...which he predictably attributed to the compromised (and he was correct) nature of my post-alloderm & dermal graft pseudo-penis...Dr Elist was always reasonably courteous and professional with me. He had a gentleman named Vaheh...who was particularly helpful, candid, and forthright with me...who indicated that Dr Elist\'s complication and success rates have essentially \'flip flopped\' over the last 2-3 years as he has modified both his implant, and surgical technique & protocol. Unfortunately, my experience dates back to the earlier days of his implant, when a \'biofilm\' infection forced the Removal of my implant. Reasonably reliable accounts indicate that Dr Elist is performing literally scores of his implant surgeries per year, with a notably lower number and percentage of \'unnatural disasters\' like you see recounted here on \'PB\'...and I experienced on a \'first \"gland\" basis\'. Notwithstanding the documented tragic cases involving Dr Elist\'s implant, which seem far fewer with time, and given the apparently more than one hundred cases that he is performing each year, there seems to be a trend towards far less of the complications and nightmares that impacted some of us here, and more successful outcomes...especially when his implant is used in conjunction with an IPP. All of this being said, I am wondering if any members here have an IPP...and, if so, do you have a specific IPP surgeon you recommend...and do you know anyone who has used Dr Elist for IPP surgery, as he states that he has performed literally thousands of IPP procedures, and the handful of his IPP patients who I have spoken with are very satisfied, and encouraging me to use him. Dr Elist has also offered me a significantly lower cost for IPP surgery relative to other urological surgeons, given my \'previous (albeit failed) patient\' status. Thank you in advance for any constructive feedback.