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by wolfpacker
Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
Replies: 30
Views: 2128

Re: Who's had the implant long term and happy???

When people talk about a revision, does that mean everything is replaced? Or if there’s just a problem with the pump, for example, can that alone be replaced with a more minor surgery? Basically I’m asking, does it have to be all components or can it be the piece of equipment that is failing for a ...
by wolfpacker
Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:38 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Who's had the implant long term and happy???
Replies: 30
Views: 2128

Re: Who's had the implant long term and happy???

When people talk about a revision, does that mean everything is replaced? Or if there’s just a problem with the pump, for example, can that alone be replaced with a more minor surgery? Basically I’m asking, does it have to be all components or can it be the piece of equipment that is failing for a ...
by wolfpacker
Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:46 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

If the resulting surgical capsule is not flexible (as stated above), then cycling will not solve this problem. It cannot be both deflated and inflated. And apparently it cannot stretch once it is established. It becomes inflexible after it is fully formed. You cycle before it is fully formed, makin...
by wolfpacker
Wed Feb 14, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

But that leads to a Sophie's choice. For about four months after surgery either: -- remain inflated so that the surgical capsule forms around the expanded cylinders (but then being unable to deflate because the surgical capsule around the reservoir has formed around the emptied reservoir). Basicall...
by wolfpacker
Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

"The capsule is not flexible when it's fully formed that's why while it's forming you keep expand both the cylinders and reservoir." That seems to be an argument for maintaining expansion of the cylinders virtually all the time -- so that the capsule forms around the cylinders in their ex...
by wolfpacker
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

Lately I've been have issues with auto-inflation, as in no matter how much I forcibly deflate my implant, it fills back up to uncomfortably full. My original implant, coloplast Titan, was with Dr Eid in summer 2021. I am with a different doctor now, and she has ordered a CT scan first, and then we ...
by wolfpacker
Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Tubing protectors?
Replies: 5
Views: 300

Re: Tubing protectors?

The yellow material is standard on the tubing from the cylinders to the pump: you can see them on the implant I bought online here https://www.franktalk.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23607&p=222087#p222087 Unfortunately it is a truth that the more friction is on any of the components, the s...
by wolfpacker
Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:41 am
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Re: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

I could probably live with the auto inflation, but Ive seen it said many times (by Dr Eid and Dr Perito) that you need to be 100% deflated at all times lest you incur tissue atrophy. What? If your implant is partially inflated during the day, it will put pressure inside your tissue and cause the ti...
by wolfpacker
Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:07 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years
Replies: 20
Views: 1028

Maybe headed to revision at 2.5 years

Lately I've been have issues with auto-inflation, as in no matter how much I forcibly deflate my implant, it fills back up to uncomfortably full. My original implant, coloplast Titan, was with Dr Eid in summer 2021. I am with a different doctor now, and she has ordered a CT scan first, and then we w...
by wolfpacker
Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: Implants
Topic: Me & My Genesis Malleable
Replies: 218
Views: 7876

Re: Me & My New Malleable

Wow you have incredible girth, have you had filler?

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