goose1235 wrote:Im quite young at 25. I was forced to see a different uro because my insurance changed. I was scheduled to get a doppler redone, but now this new uro is telling dopplers are outdated and that getting one wont change anything. Also she says no one will put an implant in at my age, that it’s gruesome, shortens penis, and Ill get an infection when I get it replaced. What do I do? Is she right or was my previous uro bad?
Doctors do differ a lot on this. Like breast enhancement. There is a cosmetic aspect to it as well as function. Or fixing a broken nose. Some doctors are really good and others just not so much. My local doctors were very low volume and seemed to want to take care of insurance company instead of me. I received the same thing about the treatment being the same with or without testing. But that is just bullshit as if testing shows a defect, then implant would be a go. What it is, is them having a noninterest in implant surgery. Mostly fueled by insurance company pressure. Insurance does not cover pills or injections so that does 2 things. It saves insurance cost of the test and prolongs the time before insurance pays for the implant. This will vary from place to place and state to state as insurance is state controlled. Some states are better than others with better doctors. The business office at my local uro's office even told me my doctors results were so poor that a large number of men had the device removed after the surgery was done. That goes against the world satisfaction percentage from implant surgery. None of the doctors in the group did repairs or replacements. And I was told to expect 1-2" loss of size with surgery. Both from the doctors and the men they did surgery on.
I would suspect your new insurance on this. BCBS of KS hates to pay for this. And they did not pay for everything. There were parts of the surgery they would not pay for. In addition to my copay and deductible I was still going to have to pay above my max out of pocket total up front. Was told with a 3k max out of pocket to expect to pay 4 to 7k and I never went back to find out the exact amount. They can have a lot of power in a state and control doctors a great deal with slow reimbursement to the point the doctors have trouble paying bills and employees. Or even drop the doctor from the network of the people they insure. And some health care workers do not see this as real medical care either. Even in the case of cancer patients. Men will not die from ED or not be able to work and pay insurance and doctor bills, so it is not a medical issue to them. And even less so that breast reconstruction surgery. They consider themselves medical doctors and see this as cosmetic surgery. Some who have not lived where this can happen may find it difficult to understand.
Your doctor is as right as she is wrong. There are doctors that have so little interest in implant surgery that they give the results your doctor and my local uro groups business office stated. And they will find a way not to do the surgery or put it off for years. That was where she was right, and she seems to be included in this group. Where she is wrong is there are very good doctors working for men in areas of the US and world that do testing to help men instead of prolonging ED and the size loss it creates. They keep up to date with surgery procedures and are skilled enough to do repairs and replacements with very good results. My current local uro stated to me he did try replacement or repair and he was not good enough to do it. And no longer would do this surgery. I had to go out of area 200 miles to find a doctor to do this. And that is why I decided not to use insurance and have my first surgery done locally and pay out of pocket for a better doctor. Even good doctors have problems. Even the best doctors have men that get infected. But your chances are extremely low of that happening with a high volume very good doctor.
You can try and see if there is other doctors in your insurance network that you can see. Do some online research to see if they are higher rated. May not help though if the doctors are all in the same uro group and work together. I would ask about replacement or repair surgery and what doctor(s) do those surgeries. And I would try to get the best doctor for this.
