I just got off a zoom call with Dr.
Casavantes who was very good with answering all my questions and I definitely would feel comfortable with him work on me.
I'm still not sure where I land between
PMMA and
Ellanse....Dr. C. strongly recommended
Ellanse because it's 'temporary' since I am pretty concerned about lumps/irregularities, however I don't think it really makes me feel any better about it, just because I might have to live with those issues for 'only' 5 or 6 years (although from all the reports here it sounds like the stuff might well never go away either)
Is there any real data out there so far about whether one or the other of these products has more or less problems, as far as clumps, granulomas, irregularities, and all the most common complications? If not do we at least know what the anecdotal evidence in the form of member reports has to say?
Frankly, it seems to me that if anything
Ellanse kind of has to be the riskier option even if it does go away, because then you have to get the procedure done again. I can do two sessions with
PMMA and I'm set for the next 50 years, I only rolled the dice twice. Vs. twenty
Ellanse sessions over 50 years (if it dissipates after 5 years for example) now the odds that I'm going to be living with a wacky result for 5 years at least have gone way up. So I'm ten times more likely to have issues for 5 years vs. one tenth the risk of having issues for the rest of my life.
Not to mention you add up a lifetime of
Ellanse sessions you could buy a house with that. So I guess I'm leaning towards
PMMA. Or even more so leaning towards nothing at all to be honest...