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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / May 20053 year post PVP followup
I had my three year post-PVP followup with Dr. Te last week. Nothing remarkable to report. Flow strong, AUA BPH symptom score at 0, no residual, no retro. PSA is up a little from last year from 1.6 to 2.0 That might mean prostate continues to enlarge, but given no BPH symptoms, no need to do anything but get annual exams. Best wishes to all of you for good health, Patrick Good to know our "veteran" is still symptom-free. Jim W. >I had my three year post-PVP followup with Dr. Te last week. Nothing >remarkable to report. Flow strong, AUA BPH symptom score at 0, no [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Patrick But Jim, The word "veteran" makes him sound old. The guy's just a young whipper snapper. But a nice one. My PSA's gone up a bit too. We got to figure out how to keep the damn thing from growing. Ron > From: "Jim W." <vze27rdh@verizon.net> > Newsgroups: sci.med.prostate.bph [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> Patrick Thanks for the updates, Patrick. I appreciate what you have contributed to this newsgroup. The information has been most helpful to us newbies who have had PVPs recently or are considering the procedure. One question...you do not have retro now. Did you ever have retro after the PVP? My PVP was done 2/23/05 and definitely have retro. Is it likely to change? Thanks. > I had my three year post-PVP followup with Dr. Te last week. Nothing > remarkable to report. Flow strong, AUA BPH symptom score at 0, no residual, [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > Thanks for the updates, Patrick. I appreciate what you have contributed > to this newsgroup. The information has been most helpful to us newbies [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > > > Chockman I had PVP July 2004 I had retro for about 9 months but it slowly resolved and now i am back to "normal" just be patient Dear Chockman, I never experienced retro. Patrick > Thanks for the updates, Patrick. I appreciate what you have contributed > to this newsgroup. The information has been most helpful to us newbies who [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >> Patrick Patrick, Thank you for so many inputs to help those new comers of BPH. I am ont of them and going to make appointment with Dr. Te soon. My insurance is UnitedHealthCare but Dr. Te is not within the network. Can you give me a general idea of the cost of having PVP? His secretary told me they do take Unitedhealthcare. What that means? Pat Pat, I really don't know how much the PVP cost. At the time I was covered by Cigna insurance company and, at the time, the PVP was considered an "in-network Prosectomy". It was completely covered by insurance. I don't know how much was actually paid by my insurance company to the doctor, hospital nor anestesolgist. You can asked Dr. Te's staff and your insurance company what is covered and what is not. One thing I do know is that now PVP is covered by most insurance companies. At the time of my surgury it was too new a procedure to have its own procedure code. But now it is Medicare approved. I still wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Te. He is one of the most experienced PVP surgeons in the world and a very thorough physician who gets at the root cause of your problems and has all the tools to deal with them in the most benefical way. Good luck to you and I wish you complete success in ridding yourself of BPH. Regards, Patrick > Patrick, Thank you for so many inputs to help those new comers of BPH. > I am ont of them and going to make appointment with Dr. Te soon. My [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Pat If I read your post correctly - generally "out of network" means that you will pay a higher precentage than if he was "in network", but since you indicate that he does take United Health Care, they will pay at least some part of it, and it will probably be based on the reduced rate that insurance companies pay. You really need to ask your insurance company, they are all different, and the same insurance company can have many different contracts. You also need to read your own booklet. Al > Patrick, Thank you for so many inputs to help those new comers of BPH. > I am ont of them and going to make appointment with Dr. Te soon. My [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Pat Patrick & Al, Thank you for your prompt and detailed response. I have read a lot of your postings here and indeed benefit a lot. Appreciated! The only regret was I did not find your guys' postings earlier. I already made an appointment with Dr. Te in NY days ago. After that I found out Dr. Te is within my Unitedhealthcare network. The reason that I can not find his name before was that there is bug in it's search function at myuhc.com. Anyway, looking forward to seeing Dr. Te now. Here is my brief BPH history. I am 50+. I took Cardular since 99 for 2 years, then switched to Flomax in 02, and added another Proscar since 03. In past 6 years ( I should did PVP as early as Patrick did in 02), I had numerous uroflow tests, 3 biopsys, 3 cyctoscopes and one useless TherMatrx DOT in Sep. 04. Wasting money is ont thing, costing our health and time is another. Foutunately, I finally found your guys' precious advices and now proceed to PVP. Will share my PVP experience in the future. Hope it can help many otheres. Pat Pat, Good luck to you. Dr. Te is a fine doctor and he will take good care of you. Hope everything goes well and your BPH symptoms are fully relieved. Patrick > Patrick & Al, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Pat Patrick, Thanks and many thanks. After June's visit, maybe need to wait months to have PVP. Talk to you later. Best Regards Pat Patrick, I had my PVP in Santa Barbara seven weeks ago, and have retro. Did you have retro and then it reversed? PVP for me has been great. Zigzag no retro ever for me. > Patrick, I had my PVP in Santa Barbara seven weeks ago, and have retro. > Did you have retro and then it reversed? PVP for me has been great. > Zigzag |
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