I think not, although they definitely pursue the hard sell. My regular urologist has a low-intensity shock wave machine, and he said it would cost about $3000, so I visited Peakperformanceformen to see what their treatment is like and how much it would cost. I had to pay $49 for the consultation (it's advertised as $99 on TV, but if you mention their website you get the cheaper price), They ask you a bunch of relevant questions about your ED to start with, and an assistant then uses a hand-held doppler device to listen to the pulse of your femoral artery and then 2 other arteries which supposedly feed into your penis. My femoral artery had a loud, regular pulse while the other two had almost none at all. Surprise, surprise!
An actual physician came in a few minutes later and said from his review of my history and the doppler test I qualified for the treatment. I was then ushered into the business manager's office (kinda like buying a car, eh?) and long story short, the fee was going to be $5500 plus a possible maintenance treatment in 6 months for another $900. What the? I suppose in my younger years I might have been desperate enough to pay that, but today, MEH, no way. As a last ditch sales pitch, the business guy said the shockwave treatment could be used on my testicles to get them to produce more testosterone, something neither I nor my urologist had ever heard. I have since received several follow-up voicemails from the main office of the company offering a lower fee, but I haven't called them back.
Some notes: 1) My dick doc said that for guys with severe ED, such as requires bi-mix injections rather than just oral ED drugs, the shockwave treatment seldom results in enough improvement to stop using the injections, so if I wanted to throw $3000 at it anyway, they could do that. 2) It looks like Peakperformanceformen uses a device branded Piezo Wave. When I googled them it seems their device is primarily used for torn rotator cuff repairs and the like, but I may have been wrong. 3) I wonder that maybe because this is a relatively new treatment in the US is why it costs so much. Perhaps like laser vision correction a few years ago, the price of the procedure may come down as it becomes more commonly available and initial demand for it subsides. We can only hope!
