Good afternoon everyone.

I had implant surgery in June 2023 at the Western General, Edinburgh. The implant was a Coloplast 3 piece.

By in large the procedure has been successful however i have lost a bit of length. I was advised that may happen.

I have also noticed and obviously felt the glans of my penis are soft which can make initial penetration different. I take it this is common ?

Thanks.

David.

Congratulations, sir! I'm so happy for you!

As you already know sudden changes or unfamiliarity can be a bit uncomfortable for many people, even positive changes, but this is a part of life and the good thing is the change in your life is for the good! So enjoy your new normal life now!

*Hugs* 🫂

DAY 21 (THREE WEEKS) POST-IMPLANT

Three weeks ago, I was implanted by Dr. Clavell with a Coloplast Titan and classic pump. Despite all the excellent shared experience in this forum, this has proven different than I imagined.

Some things have been easier, for example I haven't had as much physical pain as some men report. Some things have been harder as I didn't expect the feelings I have had about what it has meant to be impotent so long and now to almost certainly be more capable than most men of an erection. I didn't expect the grief, but at 61, with far fewer years of enjoying the human delight of sexual pleasure with someone I'm attracted to ahead of me than behind me, I'm regretting the years I never had.

I am wise enough to know that living in regret is a zero-sum game, but I also know sometimes feelings need to be felt to let go. Life is short, and the older I get the less I want to waste it. It's funny as when I was young, I loved "getting wasted," but now I'm not interested in wasting much of anything.

Like most men newly implanted, I wondered what it would feel like to inflate. As a patient of Dr. Clavell's I also wondered what it would feel like to deflate. Three weeks is a LONG time for an erection.

When I went to the University of Washington yesterday, with Dr. Clavell's permission I was deflated. Dr. Hehemann made it seem so simple. She grabbed the classic pump and said, "I like to think of it like a telescope. Some of the penis is inside so if you just squeeze the shaft you only deflate part of it." As she said this, she both squeezed and pushed my glans toward my stomach. In moments my penis looked a little misshaped and was fully deflated.

"You can start cycling," she said. We went over a few other things and with a lot of gratitude and curiosity I left and drove home. I couldn't wait to inflate and I also wanted to "feel" my deflated penis.

It is kind of crinkly and it isn't soft anymore. It is solid though somewhat flexible in the deflated state. It isn't "bad" but not what I expected. I preferred my pre-implant penis in the deflated state. It's familiar. I believe as I grow accustomed to this, it will feel comfortable enough, but I've only had this new deflated penis for less than 24-hours and I had my old penis for more than six decades.

Today, my twin adopted daughters turned 32 and I took them with my mother, son-in-law and five-month-old grandson named after me to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. My new deflated penis felt strange in jeans. It is bigger and tucks to one side. I never noticed my penis through my jeans before and it rubs in different ways. It isn't "bad" but it's not familiar.

There is an old saying that when you pick up a stick you get both ends. One end of the implant stick is the ability to have the most powerful erections a man can have. I am going from never knowing if my dick will be hard, with near certainty that it will go soft during any sexual activity, to absolute confidence that no one can have a penis harder than mine. I'm not ready for sex yet (my incision is healing and looks good but I want a few more weeks before any friction on it), but I know I will try it out with my partner soon.

The other end of the stick is that my penis is different. It feels a little odd. Something is inside it that wasn't there before and I'm not accustomed to it yet.

When I inflated last night, it was amazing. I pumped it as far as I could, waited five minutes and got in a few more full pumps. It was harder than any erection I've ever had. It looked amazing and was stunning in its girth and rigidity. I've always pointed down, but fully pumped I am around 4 o'clock. I would have liked more upward angle but for me that's far better than it was.

When I cycled this morning, it hurt a little more. There is a little pain when I'm fully pumped and after about fifteen minutes it starts to progressively "burn" or throb from the stretching. I was relieved when my iPhone told me a half hour was up and I used the telescoping technique Dr. Hehemann showed me to deflate.

I'm very happy with my decision to get an implant, but I'm not used to it yet. I'm nervous about sex, but the wiser part of me genuinely believes this is all going to prove well in the end.

I did a little research last night and estimates are about 300,000 men in the world have penile implants. If there are 9 billion people on the planet, and if half are men, and if 2/3 of the males are post-pubescent, that means there are 3 billion potentially sexually active men. If 10% have erectile dysfunction that means 300 million men are impacted. That means only 1 of every 10,000 men who suffer from ED have an implant! I wonder how I got so lucky?

Thoreau famously said most men lead lives of "quiet desperation." Society tends to evaluate us by what we earn, produce or accomplish. We are also evaluated by how virile we are or appear to be and even though I believe these aren't the healthiest metrics of what matters most, I am a product of a child born to well educated, middle-class, conservative Christian parents in the 1960s and I can't entirely escape the mores and values I was raised with. I am beginning to understand in the realm of male sexuality I was depressed even though I have a good life in many other ways.

Knowing that this has changed forever is humbling and exciting. I'll gladly take some "rope burn" feeling on my penis, or pain from cycling or dog ears from my Titan to have the very human sexual pleasure and intimacy that I think is part of every man's birthright but was something because of a simple physiological anomaly that up to now I haven't been able to enjoy.

Am I excited to have cycled twice in the last 24-hours and experienced a rock-hard penis? Hell yes I am! And I'm starting to enjoy imagining how I will use it and for that and how my life will change I am grateful.

Thanks for the advice. I've since found a combination of techniques that seem to be preventing the undesired suction. I may eventually spring for the cushion or even a better tailored vacuum tube but as long as this pump works well enough and there aren't any other inherent risks associated with a wide tube I'll probably stick to my current device.

Alongside pumping, I've also started Photobiomodulation therapy. Hoping this combo will be an effective routine.

Quote from: Mikel7 on November 28, 2024, 05:39:27 AMYou need to have a smaller pump size circumferentialy. If you can't get a smaller size where you are at then you need a penis cylinder cushion. It basically is a molded piece of silicone that fits over the end of your tube. It keeps your scrotum and testicles from being sucked into the chamber. Here is an example of what I am talking about --> Penis Cylinder Base

Looking for a SOMAcorrect or SOMAerect stf(is there a even a djfference?) or other high quality VED device for peyronies, looking to use for lost girth in conjunction with my restorex.

Hi fellow sufferer, im in a similar boat as you.

My guess is its Peyronies and its pinching on the Pudendal Nerve, do you have pain in the perineum and the testicles too? Any color change to the penis or testicles? Is it only at daytime or do you wake up from the pain from night erections as well? Because if you dont wake up from the pain at night, thats typical for Neuralgia. It gets worse through the day and has 'triggers', like erections or nicotine, caffeine etc.

Welcome aboard Elpecho! You mention Pentox in the signature line. Have you tried anything for your ED? Like cialis... Viagra?

You ask for tips.. .... I would say try restorex again in the near future? Lots of helpful posts here on The board!

This topic has been moved to Introduce Yourself.

https://www.peyroniesforum.net/index.php?topic=20738.0

Bentknob! Thank you very much for the pictures! There is a noticeable change for the better there! If the routine is working for you, stick with it. Also, I encourage you to keep updating the thread from time to time with picture updates. It motivates the one's already doing traction to stick with it and the other guys on the fence see the results and this helps them go for it.

Good all around. Stay strong and stay with us.