Surgeon near Raleigh NC

[bklynbob]

Can anyone recommend an implant surgeon near Raleigh NC?
I thought I saw a post from someone in Chapel Hill.
Thanks
Bob

[Bionic_by_AMS]

Simply Google: urology penile implant Raleigh, NC

There are quite a few in your area ...

[bklynbob]

Thank you for your reply. I was looking for a recommendation not just a list of doctors.
I would expect that the reply would come from someone who was serviced by the doctor.
thanks anyway.

[henxiaoliao]

I have good care from Dr McKraken at Landmark Urology. I believe he learned from Dr Culley Carson at UNC Hospital, who is one of the leading implant do s in the Triangle (however, he was hard to schedule an apt with and I did not care for the recommendations--or lack of them for one of my neighbors.)

When I found it would take months to see Dr Carson, I tried to see Dr Jalko at Wake Urology. He's a very good urologist, however, he was pretty booked up, too.

I knew Dr McClure through some public education and outreach work we had done back in 2001 & 2002. I saw Dr McClure and he saw instantly I was a good candidate for an implant. I had severe Peyronie's, plus hypogonadism, plus veinous insufficiency. Dr MacKraken had recently joined the practice so he worked with Dr McClure.

Surgery at Rex early July 2012. Most implant surgeries are scheduled on a Friday, so a guy's got a weekend without going to work.

I had an AMS 700 MS Series implanted. An overnight stay, and then home. I had very little pain EXCEPT for a day and a half from Saturday afternoon until mid Sunday evening I was in agony. Not from the implant, but from the anesthesia. The anesthesia puts your bowels to sleep for quite some time--a good thing since you don't want to be straining to have a BM a few days after surgery. When the intestines "wake up" they do so at random, stretching and yawning in all directions except out. A LOT of gas can build up. I have never been so glad to have a massive fart in all my life. Neighbors may have seen a flash of light from bedroom window for all I know. It was instant relief!

Pre-op advice from a retired uro nurse was to go by the Farmers' Market to buy peas. Frozen in a baggy, they can be configured to any shape and applied to cool and ease aches in your groin afterwards.

I was given a a weird key chain at the hospital that had a rubber copy of the implanted pump and a plastic card with instructions on how to work the pump.

It can sometimes be very, very difficult to make the pump work at first. I was almost to the point I was going to get a towel and a pair of pliers to squeeze the pump bulb the first time! You'll want to pump it up some after the first two or three weeks because you'll need to start stretching an organ that has not been fully stretched in a long time. Too, it is important the tubes and pump stay more or less in the same place so they form protective and stabilizing scar tissue around them.

I saw Dr MacKraken about 5 or 6 weeks later and was given the green light to have fun like I have not had in decades.

I have some less sensation, but most men do not. Some of the Peyronie's cartilage was removed in my implant and that can lessen feeling. Most diabetics or prostate surgery guys have no problem since there is no Peyronie's plaque to remove and they have not suffered some reduction in size as Peyronie's causes.

I found that even though most of the erectile tissue is damaged or crushed by an implant, enough remains that a 20mg Cialis improves sensation and rigidity a bit.

There is one other benefit I don't see discussed much on the boards.

With an implant, a guy is capable of more than a 20 year old HOWEVER, now a guy is able to think with his "big head" and not his "little one."

I was 59 at the time my ex left out of the blue. As a lady at the gym told me when she heard the news, "it's a pity about the 28 years down the drain, but the reality is there are not many straight guys your age with all their hair, no pot belly, and the ability to talk about something besides sports and business. Women will be dropping out of trees on you."

She was right ( I have no interest in women younger than 55 or so). For the next several years I was in the position of being like the gorgeous 17 year old cheerleader we all wanted to date in high school. So, being able to think with your big head and not be ruled buy your little one is important if you're single and getting an implant.

Rex Hospital billed me a nominal $48,500 dollars. The notation on the bill said United Health Care was credited (not that they paid) $42,200. That left me with $6,000 to pay. I did a little research and found UHC probably paid Rex no more than
$16,000 -- $18,000. That means Rex made about $24,000 total at most. For one night's stay and an hour long operation, they obviously still made a profit. Had I been uninsured, and had read the small print at the bottom of one of the pages of billing, I would have seen Rex offers the uninsured a "courtesy discount of 30%." just for the asking. But you have to ask. It would still mean I would have owed them $32,000, leaving them an extra $10,000 profit to be made up on the backs of people who can least afford it!

[greggshere]

Hi, I just had my implant done on Thursday by H. Mallory Reeves here in Greenville. He was my Uro and did the Da Vinci RP, as well as my implant. He teaches both at the local Brody School of medicine. I trust him with my life, and so far the pain has been acceptable and not much swelling.

[bklynbob]

Many thanks for the reply. I have seen Dr. McClure for my PC did not get that warm feeling from him. I don't mean a cold finger.
I just did not feel he was listening to me when I saw him. Much more interested in doing paper work.

Did he actually send you across the hall to McKracken?

I'm glad it has worked out well for you. Now I have a couple of names.

Bob