Here is my progress report. I took some notes and pictures throughout the first week and I\'m now day 8 post-procedure. I took a week to observe everything before I started, so later on in this post I\'ll jump back to my Day -1 (day before the procedure) journal). I\'ve had sex twice (yes, it was uncomfortable, but I finished eventually) and everything seems to be healing well. I don\'t recommend having sex that early, and neither does Wade. But my girlfriend is irresistable. What can I say? I have to admit, sex contributed to some additional swelling and the condom was pretty uncomfortable at the base. I still have a little soreness under pressure along the right side, but bruising is almost 100% gone. All in all, I\'m very impressed with Dr. C, his staff and the procedure in general.
A little about me: I don\'t believe I have penile dysmorphic disorder and statistically, I started out average or near the top of average on length and average on
Girth depending on whether I used
BPEL or not and which study I was looking at. No woman has ever complained that I was too small and I don\'t want to be enormous. My goal was just to be comfortably above average. In my case, I guess you could consider this my mid-life crisis. That\'s enough about me.
So, I researched for about 6 months before going ahead with my procedure. I decided on
PMMA with Dr. C. I spoke to Wade and PM\'d a couple people on this website before going ahead. I spoke to Rosenthal, Reed, Loria via email and extensively viewed as many before and afters as possible. The biggest concern for me was lack of long term results. The best I could find were for
PMMA, on this site. They went back 3-4 years at the time.
Without further ado, I will paste what I journaled on Day -1 (day prior to procedure) in this post, so be aware that the tone of my writing may change somewhat.
Here is my journal. After months of investigating the invasiveness, price, availability and success rates of surgery and the reputation of various doctors, I decided to take the leap and do
PMMA. I read through a couple progress reports on this site and determined that this was not only the most economical, but the least likely to result in a disfigurement or potential 'failure to launch' later. The fact that
PMMA gets inserted under the skin was a major selling point for me. No injection into penile structures was encouraging. I contacted Dr.
Casavantes' office off and on to make arrangements and spoke with Lupita and Nurse Wade on different occasions, sometimes at length. They were professional and able to answer all my questions intelligently in a way I could understand. The fact that they have undergone procedures themselves gave me the last bit of confidence I needed.Here's what I paid about a month out for everything:Priceline.com: $694 (Rental car for 3 days, hotel for 3 days, round trip plane tickets from Indianapolis to San Diego )
Avanti Derma: $2500 (for 1st procedure) Shuttle: $175 (took the shuttle from my hotel to the doctor's office twice, but shared the last ride home)
Passport: $250 (with rush service)
Antibiotics: $8 (from the pharmacy downstairs from the doctor's office)As you can see, mucho cheapo. My flight went off without a hitch and I arrived the day prior to my procedure, confirmed everything with the shuttle and shaved the area to prep it.I recommend visiting the San Diego Zoo, if you have the $46 for a day pass (Active Duty Military gets in free). San Diego in general, is a beautiful city and traffic isn't too bad, either.
