Gollam decided suicide

[rocco84]

Dear FT members unfortunately gollam decided to end his life. Why he did it, was in his last post "gollams Story" at Young members thread.

I think I was his best friend since the shit Operation was made at me and he supported me.
If you want to give him his last honor... write something good under his "gollam Story" thread. If you better stayed in contact with him or have any questions PM me.

[alibaba]

If anything good can come of this I hope it is that NO-ONE considers schlerotherapy. I have had discussions with around 6 people the last few years who I was afraid would do what Gollam did. ED impacts in many ways. There are many hucksters selling snake medical cures that do nothing for the problem. Cheap fixes rarely fix anything. Gollam, I hope you are finally at peace. If not, I hope you exact all the wrath of hell on the hucksters who sell this procedure in retribution for the many they did not cure or made worse. d

[ThePlumber1964]

If there would be a simple way to make every urological surgeon to read this, just to understand how much (either way) they do affect every patient they come in contact with.

At one point, all of us have had severe down moments since ED started to impact us. We put all our hopes and faith on them. If you ask them, they say "yes, we understand how much hope you are putting on us." I really think they do not even get close to understand the magnitude of it.

[star_of_pramen]

This is terribly sad news. Gollam seemed like a great guy and helped me with various questions I had around doctors in the UK.

He had been PM'ing me as we were both going to be under the care of Dr Ralph / his team at UCLH.....we both had appointments in the next week or so and planned to update each other on our progress.....

RIP

[David_R]

So sad. So very, very sad. What else can I say?

[joe456]

May He Rest in peace!

[DaveET1]

I have had some swelling in my ankles, and there is no reason to think it is any sort of artery problem. My Podiatrist sent me to the vein doctor, and they said they needed to block some veins in my legs. They never used the word "sclerotherapy," but that seems to be what it was. No varicose veins, but some stray ones that needed to be "occluded."

My ankles weren't causing me any discomfort, and my bullshit alarm was going off, so I decided not to have the treatment. After reading Gollam's horror story, I am So glad I walked away from the treatment.

[milesyj]

Very sad to hear the news too. I had a PM from Gollum as he was due to have his op with Mr Ralph who did my op too. I let him know that since my revision things are better and to go ahead with him. I had no idea he was in such a low place. So sad