This last pic up here is equivalent to what a \"retracted\"
Flaccid would have been before I think (i was a big time retractor and
PMMA helped a lot - but now it\'s uneven - so it looks especially odd). In my journal, there\'s a much more aesthetic looking pic - which was after morning wood. I put it here again too. When it gets stretched out for a few hours, then it sort of evens out. This is partly why I don\'t want to mess with it ... since it can look decent...but it\'s lumpy. Maybe traction or pumping will make it look like this more often? I\'ve been using it. Also, I am missing 1\" of skin on 1 side...so that makes it more exaggerated now too. It actually looked ok after the first excision of 1/3\" skin. After the second, it looked a lot worse.
I have been thinking
Radiesse is the most practical now, since it dissolves after a year or so if something goes wrong... but I don\'t know. It\'s very expensive compared to
PMMA products. Silicone seems like a possible solution. 10%
PMMA shouldn\'t cause an issue either, but I don\'t know if I can have any kind of relationship w/ Avanti anymore. I was pretty upset with them after all this happened & I didn\'t hear anything from them & they cancelled the appointment I made w/ Diana. So, I didn\'t say anything too crazy (in my opinion...) but I did send an email saying I was pretty upset with what happened this round, especially after all I had been through with Peyronie\'s...with everything that went on in R3, and that was the last time we communicated.
I know this time it seemed like I reacted really fast. For the most part, the lumps that were forming at 10 days are still here now, and still rock solid now. I was hoping
Kenalog would prevent them from solidifying which is sort of the whole point of
Kenalog. Nobody wanted to inject the dose that Dr. C uses (40%) because they are too unfamiliar with all this. So,
Kenalog 10% didn\'t do much. Injections of saline and sterile water were what caused all the bruising in my journal...those were more attempts to break the early collagen apart. They really pooled around the injection sites...and didn\'t want to leave.
The lumps that were removed were the top left (
Dermatologist), and all the ones on the right (
Dermatologist first, then it was an open wound - then
Urologist closed it). I can still feel the others & you see the two left ones in my
Flaccid 8 month pic (on the right - different angle of camera). This pic is 5-6 weeks post op. The waiting game works for some guys, but not in my case.