TOPIC: Dr C - This worrying?

www.makemeheal.com/directory/view.php?userentry_id=27133

So hard to tell if this is perhaps competitors ?

There\'s no way to know if that is real. You can read other journals to know if / when people have problems - how avanti responds to them.

Agreed. Sounds real, but that means nothing online.

I\'m reading and reading and reading.

Such a mixed bag.

So hard to tell if this forum is actually reflective of the results, baring in mind the sheer volume of ops actually done and the very few journals here.

@Restoration
Why you edited your post?

Why wouldn\'t they be real? Granulomas and chronic inflammation are a known potential problem in the future. This has been stated before on this site many times. People that have PMMA in the face sometimes have reactions 5-10 years later. What makes the penis any different. Plus we get way way more injected and of lower quality. This is not some risk free procedure and the moderators here will tell you the same. No penis enlargement surgery is risk free. The longest someone has had this is 5-7 years if I\'m not mistaken. Who knows what will occur in 10, 15, 20 years.

Because I don\'t feel like dwelling on my feelings towards Avanti in my situation. I wrote what I wrote at the time. He can just look it up and see what happened.

neverendingjourney wrote: Why wouldn\'t they be real?

They could be real. They could also easily be a competitor scaremongering against Dr C.

There seems to be a lot money transferring hands for this procedure. It wouldn\'t be that unusual , as it is in any business which is limited to so few suppliers, for each supplier to do their best to slander the other.

I am about to have PMMA for the first time in a few weeks and this also worries me too, without a doubt.

I think the possible counterargument to this is that, if in fact this is a chronic problem and only a small fraction of guys that have this done take to the boards to investigate, wouldn\'t that mean that we\'d see many, many more posts about this.

I also agree that we don\'t know a whole lot about what this does 5-10 years down the line. Though some of those stories are scary.

40-80 mg in one nodule? That is very very high. 40 mg is a systemic dose for allergies, for a month. Docs in the USA will not inject that much, especially in the face. They will do maybe 2-3 mg at most. Or, there is an atrophy risk. I had a dent in 1 spot from kenalog. It went away a few months later. Often, the atrophy will go away, but it\'s hard to predict. Atrophy is not the only risk.

You can see the consequences of over-injecting kenalog here (scroll down). I don\'t think I\'d want to risk that with my penis, or in the case of that post on realself, the face.

www.dermnetnz.org/treatments/intralesional-steroids.html

I think this person may be an idiot though - I don\'t think this laser actually melts PMMA beads and I couldn\'t find anything supporting this claim after a google search.

I read that post a dozen times trying to decipher it, in the remote chance something useful was there (and the OP of that post was like yay I\'m gonna try this... yikes.)

That person sounded crazy... hooking up a RF device (for $40... must be some amazing device) to her nodules, from outside of the skin. She said the RF stimulates collagen...which would make it worse. There is no way to \"melt the PMMA\" from outside the body and think it would help. The PMMA would still be there. The doc who uses the laser opens the skin (and even that had a response by another MD in a journal saying it sounded extremely unsafe). Finally, the nodules are mostly collagen / scar tissue - not all PMMA. It\'s a complicated problem to get rid of the PMMA AND the scar tissue... which is why so many of us are kind of screwed with these nodules.

Dexterphall wrote: www.makemeheal.com/directory/view.php?userentry_id=27133

So hard to tell if this is perhaps competitors ?

Hey there, this is my first post, but I have, like most people on here, been a long time researcher and possible future client of Dr.C . I\'ve been reading everything I can on this message board for some time, but have never posted because I honestly don\'t have anything relevant to add yet.

However I can comment on this issue. I ironically found another thread within an hour of reading this that had someone commenting on this exact same link. To paraphrase what others said on that specific thread, it basically COULD be a site other doctors pay to write poorly about other doctors in hopes for business.
Also, from a personal standpoint if this was real, and happened often, we would have heard all about it here at some point. From reading the various threads on here most, if not all, pmma complications seem to involve nodules and/or unevenness in the penis after procedure. Which in my humble opinion is nothing compared to the laundry list of possible problems that could arise. The more serious complications seem to involve procedures done that involve removing the pmma, doing multiple procedures or doing a different procedure all together.
I\'m not stating it is definitely fake, or not to use caution, I am just saying it doesn\'t add up in my opinion.
Another member posted this link, which I will too about how this site is potentially a scam. I hope this helps :
www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/make-me-heal-c342516.html