Thailand

[casa212]

Has anyone opted for surgery in Thailand.

[briceb]

Maybe it is just me, but I would feel a lot safer about about having surgery done at home in the good ol US. With the complications that are possible, I would hate for something to go bad and be on a different continent than my doctor. Plus, should things go really bad, what recourse would you have? Just food for thought.

[UncleJJ]

Yep, it is good to be on one continent; however, there is hope that all would go well and much more inexpensively. Also it is exciting.

[kingpin]

I personally wouldnt be comfortable getting any surgery in thailand. I know if there was some rich thai man that wanted this surgery done he wouldnt be getting it done in Thailand. He would be on the first plane over to the US to get the best doctor possible....so why if ur already in the US would u go over there. When it comes to surgery i really dont care about saving a few dollars. Safety has to be the number one concern...

[hoddle10]

I bet as much botched PE surgery is carried out in the US than anywhere else in the world. At the end of the day guys like Rhienschild, Burman, Elist, Krakovsky and Rosenstien are all American and they've all seriously screwed guys up and been very unhelpful when it comes to making things better. In fact, aside for Gary Alter, is there really any Dr carrying out PE surgery in the whole of the US that you'd truely trust?

[briceb]

Hoodle,

I am not disagreeing with you. In fact, you are hitting part of the point I made. I, personally, would rather be in the same country as my doctor should anything go wrong. I would assume that doctors in Thailand would have the same success/failure rate as doctors in the US, although that is just an assumption. Having problems addressed would be a lot harder with that great a distance.

[750paso]

Hi there

Last december I had surgery in thailand. I had dermal graft using groin tissue the doctors name was dr promote at yanhee international hospital in bangkok.
The initial cost of the surgery was $2000 us. The hospital was very nice, clean and very friendly and I was looked after. I arrived on the monday had my consultation tuesday morning at 10am and was then booked for surgery at 2pm that afternoon. after the op I woke up around 3-4pm still very drowsy and was taken up to my own room where I stayed for the night. I was monitered through the night. When I woke in the morning I was very sore and swollen. I was able to walk around ok tho. The doc come in that morning and assessed everything and was happy for me to go after lunch. But also said I could stay for another night. I took them up on the offer because they just made everything so much easier and there food was really nice for hospital food. The next day the doc seen me again everything was good. But I was just really comfortable good food sevice cable tv etc. so I stayed another night. My flight back home to Australia was booked for 7 days after surgery. (which was a mistake) If I could turn back the clock I would have stayed longer just to let the swelling and stitches heal. When I say stitches I mean the in the area where the graft was inserted. it was an incision half an inch down from the base of the penis on the penis. This is where the problem started.

I arrive back in australia all excited everything is good after day nine I go to bed I wake up in excrutiating pain I had a erection after a couple of minutes it goes away. In the morning I wake up I removed the wrap I was told to wear. And I realise I have torn a stitch so for a few days I just try to keep it clean etc. After a week it wasnt really healing and the wound started to get bigger and I noticed that I could see the graft trying to swell out it was a white colour I by now I was really worried. A discharge was starting to ooz out I got in contact with my doc he told me to keep it clean an keep squeezing what I thought was puss out. It wastnt puss it was actually the the fat graft it had a strange smell and it was a pink colour really strange.
I decided to fly back to bangkok. Just to give you an idea I would have squeezed out close to a desert spoon of fluid on the nine hour flight back.
When I arrived the doc had a look and removed a lot of the graft which by then had turned white. I stayed there for another week a little more graft was removed the discharge stopped and I was left with next to nothing. The doc said it would take around 2 to wks to heal he wouldnt stitch it back up he just said has to heal itself. To this day the wound is still open, It just starts to heal and then I go to bed go to sleep by accident get an errection and it tears again. It is getting better but i am really over it. To date I have gained 0.5" in girth.

So my experience is not that good and for those who are looking at surgery Id ask your doc where the incision are going to be made and Id stay away from the area where I had mine. I really dont know what he was thinking cutting me there.

[casa212]

Thanks, I had a hair transplant in Thailand, great expierence. I am only considering having the lenght portion done there. World class hospitals at half the price from what I have noticed.

[750paso]

If you want my advice id be looking somewhrere else I was in contact with a member SO last year before I had surgery. He had both length and girth done from same doc and he said it just wasnt worth it (regarding length). Dr pramote is a good surgeon tho I think he is a little behind the times with different info concerning phalloplasty being the only one in his field around asia. I spoke to the doc about the stretching exercises and his routines were a little over the top. Im not sure where you are from but from my research I wish i had have traveled to the USA. The mistake I made and I wish I had listened to Londonlad was to research more, I was just too excited at the time and had tunnel vision towards a result that I never achieved.

[londonlad]

i am truly sorry to hear your story 750paso. I admit I was hoping you didnt go through with it, I did my best to give all info I found and emailed SO etc.....my advice to "research more" was actually a euphemism for "please put it off forever" but like everyone here we all wish each other the best of luck and im gutted it turned out like this all the same.

dont worry we are all strong and we will get through this. thank you for sharing your story, it will help others.

its nothing to do with the doctors or the country at all. Its really that the actual concept of current enlargement techniques are just not fully compatible with the way our penises were designed by nature.

luckily the forum is still here and we are here to talk