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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Cost of revision/correction?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 236
Re: Cost of revision/correction?
Depends, in my case the cost is made up of 4 cost components: Cost of the device Cost of the anesthesiologist Cost of the surgeon Cost of the surgery center My surgeon gives 3 year warranty on "cost of the surgeon", so revision in that time would not incur that cost. Also, the devices are ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Dr. Loria for Girth
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: Dr. Loria for Girth
Dr Lorias product is not reversible. Have you tried going back to whoever did your HA for touch-up?
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2306
Re: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
When people talk about a revision, does that mean everything is replaced? Or if there’s just a problem with the pump, for example, can that alone be replaced with a more minor surgery? Basically I’m asking, does it have to be all components or can it be the piece of equipment that is failing for a ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2306
Re: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
When people talk about a revision, does that mean everything is replaced? Or if there’s just a problem with the pump, for example, can that alone be replaced with a more minor surgery? Basically I’m asking, does it have to be all components or can it be the piece of equipment that is failing for a ...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1118
Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
If the resulting surgical capsule is not flexible (as stated above), then cycling will not solve this problem. It cannot be both deflated and inflated. And apparently it cannot stretch once it is established. It becomes inflexible after it is fully formed. You cycle before it is fully formed, makin...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1118
Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
But that leads to a Sophie's choice. For about four months after surgery either: -- remain inflated so that the surgical capsule forms around the expanded cylinders (but then being unable to deflate because the surgical capsule around the reservoir has formed around the emptied reservoir). Basicall...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1118
Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
"The capsule is not flexible when it's fully formed that's why while it's forming you keep expand both the cylinders and reservoir." That seems to be an argument for maintaining expansion of the cylinders virtually all the time -- so that the capsule forms around the cylinders in their ex...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1118
Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Lately I've been have issues with auto-inflation, as in no matter how much I forcibly deflate my implant, it fills back up to uncomfortably full. My original implant, coloplast Titan, was with Dr Eid in summer 2021. I am with a different doctor now, and she has ordered a CT scan first, and then we ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Tubing protectors?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 323
Re: Tubing protectors?
The yellow material is standard on the tubing from the cylinders to the pump: you can see them on the implant I bought online here https://www.franktalk.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23607&p=222087#p222087 Unfortunately it is a truth that the more friction is on any of the components, the s...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: Implants
- Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1118
Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
I could probably live with the auto inflation, but Ive seen it said many times (by Dr Eid and Dr Perito) that you need to be 100% deflated at all times lest you incur tissue atrophy. What? If your implant is partially inflated during the day, it will put pressure inside your tissue and cause the ti...