Color me impressed
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:35 am
I haven’t been on much lately, lots of things going on. Trips, rebuilding a ‘69 ford pickup, reconstruction on an old house I picked up to fix and sell.
My new least favorite words are “how hard can it be?” Well, I found out when it came to hanging, taping, floating, and texturing Sheetrock.
But that’s not my post. I had a TRT visit to urologist today. Saw the doc for first time in a couple of years. I’d been seeing his PA until this visit.
He did all his poking and read my labs and asked about my LGX. He installed it 12/31/19. I told him everything was great but how long before I needed a new one?
He said average probably another 6-9 years. He’s seeing 12-15 year functional life on the devices he’s implanted. He has one guy whose had same implant 22 years no issues. But his best guess was 12-15.
Here’s what impressed me. Without looking at my chart or anything he started rattling off numbers. “You, if I remember correctly, are at 18+5. You’ve complained a bit about girth. You’ll need a bit more to fill you up because over time your tissues stretch some. When it quits, and the LGX will let you know….its going to work just fine until it doesn’t. Then call me and I’ll slap a 24+1 or 24+2 CX in you. It’ll work great.”
What impressed me was that he remembered. This is Austin’s high volume guy. He remembered calling me the night of the surgery from a NYE party.
I was flabbergasted he remembered shit to that level of detail. This wasn’t even an implant appointment…just my 6 month PSA and finger up the ass since I’m on TRT.
You can’t say too much bad about a surgeon that recalls doing you over 5 years ago and already has a plan for a revision, if needed.
My new least favorite words are “how hard can it be?” Well, I found out when it came to hanging, taping, floating, and texturing Sheetrock.
But that’s not my post. I had a TRT visit to urologist today. Saw the doc for first time in a couple of years. I’d been seeing his PA until this visit.
He did all his poking and read my labs and asked about my LGX. He installed it 12/31/19. I told him everything was great but how long before I needed a new one?
He said average probably another 6-9 years. He’s seeing 12-15 year functional life on the devices he’s implanted. He has one guy whose had same implant 22 years no issues. But his best guess was 12-15.
Here’s what impressed me. Without looking at my chart or anything he started rattling off numbers. “You, if I remember correctly, are at 18+5. You’ve complained a bit about girth. You’ll need a bit more to fill you up because over time your tissues stretch some. When it quits, and the LGX will let you know….its going to work just fine until it doesn’t. Then call me and I’ll slap a 24+1 or 24+2 CX in you. It’ll work great.”
What impressed me was that he remembered. This is Austin’s high volume guy. He remembered calling me the night of the surgery from a NYE party.
I was flabbergasted he remembered shit to that level of detail. This wasn’t even an implant appointment…just my 6 month PSA and finger up the ass since I’m on TRT.
You can’t say too much bad about a surgeon that recalls doing you over 5 years ago and already has a plan for a revision, if needed.