I truly know I was blessed. My doctor was Dr rosenwasser in Philadelphia. At the time the glue was a new procedure he pretty much wrote the book on the procedure so I was in really good hands although I was a guinea pig at the time. So far all has worked. I only had a little bit of eye damage and the terrible Brewer in my ear was gone when I woke. That was like listening to dripping water I don’t know how I didn’t kill myself with that in my ear. By the way, I was misdiagnosed for 10 years until I finally got to the right neurosurgeon and he referred me to rosenwasser. I was insistent there was something wrong. I start getting headaches a couple years back again and called him a little worried they sent me for all the normal tests and all looked good. But at that time they did say that over time the glue could wear away with me being 39 years old at the time it could still last my lifetime. I’m not surprised this is the longest you have heard but I think a lot of that has to do with people getting off the sites once they start resuming a normal life again. For instance, I haven’t been on this site in a very long time happened to run across your post and jumped on but for all of those years I was not here. So I think that there are a lot more success stories of longer times than we hear here. Keep us updated