implant or drug

Hi, TK,

I am a one-year survivor of robotic surgery (a radical prostatectomy), which I had in April 2007. Despite ED problems I was told that even  with my nerve-sparing, spontaneous erections might not arise for yet another year (pardon the pun).

So I myself would not rush to have a penile implant at this point (pun unintended).

On the other hand i got a call from a man I interviewed for my book, Conquer Prostate Cancer: How Medicine, Faith, Love and Sex Can Renew Your Life (to be published this September 2008; ConquerProstateCancer.com is my website and blog underconstruction). Like yourself, he called me to ask if a penile implant made sense to me, given my recent research, and I told him that it did in his case, which may or may not be similar to yours (you be the judge).

My caller, and a clergyman like myself, had prostate cancer surgery about four years ago. It left him impotent despite the little "blue pill" (Viagra) and its alternatives. He felt remiss that he could not satisfhy his wife, and he felt that at age 80 he was still vigorous enough to sustain the necessary surgery and do right by her.

I told him that the ony drawbacks I know of is that surgery is surgery (always a risk), and that there could be a low risk of infection (especially since he has diabetes) and the need to replace the prosthesis.

He decided to go ahead and the night of the operation went back home to call me, elated that he felt so good and that the quality of his life was bound to improve.

Since his call he told me that his expectations were fulfilled.

Check with your doctor how suitable a candidate your doc feells you are for this surgery. Urologists friends tell me it is a relatively easy surgery that can take 1 1/2 hours, and it has proved to be beneficial to countloess couples.

Good luck and good health, above all!

                                                            Ed Weinsberg

                                                 Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg, Ed.D., D.D.

                                                 (Sarasota, FL)

These 3 tablet has unfurtunitly very risky side effects. Without warning.  effect are very good, but unfurtunitly no one talks about the side effects which kill or disable the person.  If every body start talking and asking the Lilly co. There mhigt be that the company will try to work harder to arease or reduce life treathening side effects, for such good product . As of no very seldom people who gets serious side effects talks. or I don't se much info from them. I no 2 person death, taking Viagra or Cialis. I hope one dag these company understand they get much more money if they lisen to letter or mail deg receive from people and try to give more information and use the information they recive.