It wasn’t exactly an official, “consult”. I called and spoke to a member of his office staff who told me that if I called back Like an hour or two later, I don’t really remember exactly, that maybe he would be available to speak to me. In fact, I didn’t even initiate the idea of calling him back. That was suggested to me by the staff member I first spoke to. When we spoke he didn’t “clam up,” at all. And, I didn’t ask him any technical questions, unless you count “In your experience, how valuable do you think Relaxin is to the process?” Turns out, he could never even get his hands on any. All I asked him was: “Are the results of those patients, listed as examples in your patent application, about the same as those achieved by your other patients, on average?” And, “Your receptionist told me that on average your patients gain about three eighths of an inch a month in erect length. Would you say that’s accurate?” And finally, “Do you have many patients from the states?” That’s it. Actually, he was very forthcoming on his own, giving details about several things I hadn’t even asked about.
Honestly, when I got off the phone with him I was thrilled by what I had been told. I was just kind of worried that, even though he said he was perfectly willing to take me on as a patient, he still sounded like he was kind of angry with me. Frankly, I like to be on good terms with anyone I expect is going to be sticking needles in my junk. BUT HEY, that’s just me!
“Lurking,” Well that’s one way to put it but, I was just doing what I was told to do, by the doctor’s staff, presumably on his orders. I checked back every six months or so like I was told, until I was finally told about two and a half years ago that Dr Adams was no longer offering the protocol, even to Canadians, and had no plans to resume doing so.
Let’s go with your construction analogy. Let’s say, all around you are people who really want to build a second floor onto their houses. However, they just don’t know the proper way to build them, so they keep falling down, causing these people to get hurt. Naturally, this makes all of these people pretty damned unhappy. There is this one engineer however, who has it all figured out. The thing is, he is apparently trying to come up with the best way for him to make the most money possible from his construction technique, and apparently feels absolutely no moral responsibility at all to keep these other folks from getting hurt in the meantime. NOW PLEASE UNDERSTAND, no one is asking this man to work for free! Certainly not me. I do however think that he has a moral obligation, to let all of the people severely bummed out about their “single floor situation”, know that such a “construction” technique exists. Again, I’m not asking the man to actually “help build”, anything for free. I’m just asking that he be willing to convincingly put the word out that he knows how to do it, and then make the service available, FOR A PRICE. I’m not even really talking as much about people on the forums. We already know, or at least suspect, that it exists. Although, given the rather bleak showing of most of the forum members who tried it, it would be nice if the good doctor were willing to go a bit more public with his supposedly excellent and extensive track record.
I want to be clear, according to his office manager Dennis, Dr Adams currently seems to be willing to explain his protocol to anyone willing to pay him $1000.00. I was told by his office manager Dennis that this price included, in total, two one hour phone conversations with Dr Adams. That’s it. Now I’ll admit, this fee does seem a bit steep to me, considering that he used to offer three days of preliminary in office evaluation and instruction, including titration, as well as in office checkups every two weeks, possibly even including further titrations if necessary, along with six months supply of medication, for only two hundred dollars more than that, six years ago. I mean I’ve heard of inflation and I realise that the old price was rather low, but still $1000.00 for what amounts to two one hour seminars seems a little unreasonable to me. Hell, he even USED to offer a money back guarantee for crying out loud!! WHEN have you ever even heard of a doctor doing that?? I’m just saying, couldn’t we find a happy median?
Personally, I feel that potential patients would be much more interested in and achieve much better results with, a program much more like his old one. I’m not talking about the price. I’m talking about the thorough degree of initial and ongoing personal involvement with the patient’s care, inherent in the old program’s structure.
I would like to point out that, for the first three years or so after I was told that Dr Adams could no longer accept patients from the States, I really didn’t bear the man any ill will. I just figured “these things take time.” Eventually however, I admit to experiencing a growing disdain for what I saw as Dr Adams apparent disinterest in the psychological welfare of men who, reasonably or not, are very concerned about their perceived inadequacies in this area. To anyone who thinks this makes me a jerk, so be it.
As to whether I crossed the line, letting Dr Adams know what was on my mind, maybe you’re right. Maybe I did. I will say that my most recent contact with his office came out of a desire to encourage him to get the word out to the general public, through magazine articles, ect. That such a technique existed, so that other men could be helped, more than anything else. And, I didn’t think that I could illustrate to him what I believed to be the importance of that concept as well, unless I really told him how I felt. However, I swear to God, if I honestly thought that flattery and kissing his ring would have worked better towards that end, I would have held my tongue and never said a word. As it is, over the years I’ve had enough benefit from traction so that my desire to utilise the protocol personally, while it does certainly still exist, is secondary. Still, it was unpleasant and took a very long time. The way Dr Adams and several members of his staff described it, the gains it has taken me many years and a lot of discomfort to achieve, would have taken me less than a year under his care and been relatively painless. Why am I a bad guy for wanting other guys who are as fucked up over this stuff as I was to have an easier time than I did? Particularly, not having to go through all the months of wondering if all the discomfort, was even doing me any good.
Dr Adams going VERY public, particularly now that his patent has been granted for over sixteen months, and given that he has had over eight years to plan what to do, once that happened, could make that a reality. Also, and yes maybe this is nit picking here but, according to Stagestop and some other folks, Dr Adams actually bought the entire protocol from some other researchers who actually devised it, years ago.
