Here's another from their January '04 web-site that is, to be politie,
questionable:

"Some men may experience more severe symptoms that can be easily treated by
your doctor"

This was amended back in the spring to read: "Some men may experience more
severe symptoms that can be treated by your doctor." Note that the word
"easily" was removed. "treated" does not necessarily mean treated
successfully.

When I read the "easily treated by your doctor" back a year ago I was
convinced that any post-surgical problems were  essentiall non-problematic
and alleviated with little trouble.

This was hardly the case for me, and apparently many others who have
contributed to this NG. Accunpuncture saved me from 2 months of miserable
symptoms, Post-PVP surgery. There was nothing 'easy' about it.

Marcus

Dean,
The Laserscope website never made such claims. It has never gone into
anything about how a patient would be after a PVP, except that a PVP will
open a channel less tramatically than a TURP.

I can ask Laserscope if they stated this on their website.

Note that I, along with many other people on this newsgroup, along many
other patients in testimonial letters and personal quotes about their
Laserscope PVP have said that they have been able to sleep through the night
six weeks or so after a PVP.  I know that I made that statement about my
post-PVP many times.

But that is far from Laserscope going on record saying that anybody or even
most people having a PVP will "sleep through the night 6 weeks after a PVP."
We all know that surely depends on the condition of the bladder six weeks
after a PVP.  Some men with badly damage baldders will never get to that
level of improvement.

One thing I know is that Laserscope went to great lengths in accepting only
those men in their trial (the first 146 men in the 80Watt trial) who would
benefit the most from the procedure.  So that is why these men, as a group,
had such wonderful results, i.e. they for the most part, presented with
terrible BPH conditions.  Large median lobes, high residual, large prostates
pushing into the bladder, failure with medications and TUMTs, etc.  But all
of these men had fully functioning bladders so the improvements from the PVP
procedure was dramatic.

Like I have said for several years now, the real benefit of PVP is when it
is done early before the bladder is damaged. When it is done early, the
operation is simple, recovery is fast and complete.

If PVP was available, I would have had mine about 3 to 5 years before I had
to have it in desparation.

Patrick