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Hi guys.
I've just had surgery in London and i'm still 4 days post-op.
Maybe next week i'll start cycling, but someone has to teach me and since i'm not from London my surgeon, Prof Ralph, suggested me to seek a local uro able to show me how to inflate and deflate the device.
Has anyone of you had a similar experience? Do you think, in your opinioni, this could be a rational option? Thank you.

I think this is what should be done if you don't live in the UK.
High volume surgeon + local uro.

Can you tell us something about your experience with Ralph?

Fourtytwo00 wrote:I think this is what should be done if you don't live in the UK.
High volume surgeon + local uro.

Can you tell us something about your experience with Ralph?

Thanks for your reply.
As for Ralph, i'm at the very beginning of my experience with him and i cannot state certain things in one direction or another.
I haven't even activated my implant yet.
I'll certainly be able to give you more details within a 3-4 weeks period.

How did you get in touch with Ralph and may I ask you how much did you pay?

FOLLOW UP CARE:

Gentlemen:

Being here in a small town in Texas I am not a user of NHS or any sort of British health care service. I haven’t a clue as to how it even works. But I do wish to stress one thing I encountered post-surgery.

The value of good, professional, knowledgeable care after the operation is often overlooked but cannot be over emphasized. I would attribute the greater part of my total satisfaction with my implant and the experience to the after care I received.

Yes, I considered going to the famous names on the east coast. In the end, I decided to roll the dice and use a high volume doctor 60 miles away because I know the follow up care would work better with an hour drive vs a 4 hour plane flight.

The doc or his PA pretty much allowed me to come in as often and for as long a time as I needed. They watched as I learned to inflate and deflate. They told me what parts of my recovery were normal and which of the things I was seeing were items of concern to keep an eye on. The first two weeks I was in the office maybe 6 times, then once a week, once in two weeks, come back in a month…3 months….see you in a year.

Yeah, I could have survived via teleconference, discovery learning on my own. But life became so much easier when I had professionals who have done >1000 implants coaching me,

Find a local urologist for follow up if that’s how it works over there. No, an implant really isn’t major surgery, but it represents a major lifestyle change. The physical and mental parts of a guy both take a hit. Being seen and being able to see someone familiar with the whole implant deal is worth a fortune.

your impulsiveness dictated by your very young age made you tend to go abroad despite having a high volume implantologist at home, I understand that the implantologist at home does not have a very accommodating way of speaking, but going abroad was this is my fear, in having to need in the post-operative period, on his side is that he loves his work and exalts himself in speaking, this exaltation and love of his is reflected in the work towards his patients, I am sure that other doctors also have other defects , I do not think it is second to none in the world except eid, with this I am sure you will solve soon, with more effort than you should have, but you will solve, I really wish you from the bottom of my heart to have patience and not to get discouraged, now is the time to get out the balls, those are left to you and they are yours , you are a very smart and intelligent boy, now is the time to prove it, as they say ... you are in dance and you have to dance, there are other doctors in rome who know how to use implants, pay them and solve your problem once and for all, take care and hold on, what matters is that everything went well, now you have to think about getting better and better, until you live life, the one that ED had taken you away, a hug frank