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Has anyone had BPH surgery after their implant. My VA urologist wants to do the BPH surgery first and wait another 6-10 weeks till I get a revision on my damaged implant. The civilian urologist says if my symptoms are controlled with medication I an do the revision first and address the BPH after I heal well.

Howling8 wrote:Has anyone had BPH surgery after their implant. My VA urologist wants to do the BPH surgery first and wait another 6-10 weeks till I get a revision on my damaged implant. The civilian urologist says if my symptoms are controlled with medication I an do the revision first and address the BPH after I heal well.

Howling, I had an enlarged benign prostrate and that’s when I also started talking with my military urologist about the implant.
Before my scheduled appointment about my prostrate problem, I filled out a questionnaire about other symptoms that I was having which was ED problems and that is how I got started down the road for an implant. I had never heard of a IPP for ED.

My Army Major Doc wanted to do the prostrate procedure first, I’m not sure why, but it was more of a healing period than I thought it would be.
I had the Boston Scientefic Rezume procedure done, where they inject small amounts of steam into the enlarged prostrate to kill tissue to make the prostrate shrink. It took every bit of 2 months to heal up. After my prostrate healed up I had my IPP surgery, which was around 3 months.
Before the prostrate procedure I could sometimes get an erection with pills, after the procedure I had total ED, it’s possible that the procedure damaged some nerves down there. It sucked to have total ED for 3 months before my IPP surgery.

Sorry for the long explanation

SWorks

I was on schedule for a turp do to bad prostate issues, and talking to a urologist about implant at the same time also. About same time I had a close friend had the turp surgery 5 weeks earlier by the same Dr I was scheduled with. He had a terrible recovery so I cancelled my turp and went directly to the implant. Stopped drinking diet cokes and went on a diet and lost 45 pounds and my bph got better to the point that now almost 3 years later it’s something I deal with but is tolerable. Feel like most of the bph surgeries are a toss of dice as to the results go. My friend is now having just as much bph issues and immediately started having bad ed after his bph surgery. At some point if my BPH gets much worse I might address it but hopefully can do without it. I was at the point of pills having no effect and injections horribly unreliable and problems with the wife because of the ED! It was constant misery! Never regretted my decisions! Just wish I had done the implant about 2-3 years earlier.