There are two hospitals in the U.K. which offer the Laserscope PVP
treatment, one of them is Princess Royal Hospital in Sussex.  There
are 2 urologists carrying out PVP at Princess Royal and I made an
appointment with Mr Tim Larner.  At the consultation Mr Larner

I was told in another forum that PVP was not the best choice for my
117 gram prostate.  That the best solution was an open prostatectomy
was best.  I think this person was an MD.
Here was the ratioanle:

Flowmax restores my flow well enough and my PSA is 1.5, but lately
I'm experiencing brown semen, pretty regularly.
My web search has alsmost convinced me it's no worse
than nose bleed. Yet I wonder.

Had my annual with the Uro today.  He suggested I try Avodart to replace the
Proscar I've been on for about 7 years.   Any other experiences with making
this transition?
  Bob

I recently had an unexplained high psa of 6.8. my doctor told me to wait and
then redo the test since I had a negative biopsy 7 months ago. He said it
might be do to inflamation. Afterwards while reconstructing events I
realized that I had an exterminator in the house just a few ...

I have been following the PVP dialogue for some time.  It seems that
it is better than Indigo Laser except in one area: retrograde
ejaculation, which is about 30% for PVP and about zero for Indigo.
Also, Indigo does not destroy the urethra, while I think PVP basically

I just got off the phone with Dr. Lin.  He did a PVP on me on July 31, 2003.
I had a prostate that exceeded 150 grams.
Dr Lin asked if there is still blood in my urination.  I explained that the
beginning of the stream is red or pink but it clears and runs yellow towards

Like many here I am wrestling with the question: TURP or PVP?
My Uro (in the UK) is not very enthusiastic about PVP and prefers the "Gold
Standard" TURP. He is a very experienced and respected Surgeon but perhaps a
little conservative?

I had a TUIP nine days ago; a rather unpleasant, but not intolerable experience. I would like to speak with others who have had this procedues, to compare notes on healing times, bleeding, etc.
I am still passing some blood, particularly in the morning. There is also a ...

I have a TUNA scheduled for Thursday. I have not planned to take Friday off
work. (desk job) I have a fairly active weekend planned wihich includes a
round trip in my truck of 3 hours each way to deliver a load of furniture to
a mountain cabin. I also plan to do some work on the ...

I have purchased a 256mb Memory Stick Pro, mainly because I was led to
believe that it would write faster to the card from the camera and download
quicker to the computer. My camera is supposed to support the Pro! (Sony DSC
P92)

My ILC uro's opinion of PVP:
"Have been hearing more about the newer laser being marketed by laserscope,
but haven't yet seen anything that makes me think that this will be
substantively different from any of the other currently existent

Had my three month PVP post-op check-up today.  Actually it has only
been 9 weeks and 4 days.  I still have retro, but other that that, I'm
a happy customer.  The possibility of retro going in was 50/50,
because of a very large medial lobe up into the neck of the bladder

I posted this intitial report earlier about my ILC done 7/1:
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8&safe=off&selm=Xns93BA4475DD6Ejdcrane7yahoocom%40130.133.1.4>
As of now, I'm fine, peeing a bit better than before the ILC--somewhat