lunacynic wrote:i have an 18cm ams lgx with 5.5cm rte. that bitch is almost a quarter the total length of the implant and extends right up to the exit point of the device from my body. it's a disaster and this is why: it completely eliminates as an option the position almost every girl i've ever known prefers to stimulate her own orgasm, female superior. when my girl is on top, that grinding motion places shear forces exactly on the juncture between the hard plastic of the rte and the softer inflated cylinder. not only is this painful for me, it's a recipe for the premature structural failure of the implant.
also, i've been reading with interest stories from key contributors to this forum about gaining substantial length and girth in the months following the installation of titan products that are not known for this property. i, otoh, have an lgx, heavily promoted for this potential, and 6mo down the road from surgery and i haven't gained anything at all. i'm a very strong guy and i've been pumping the snot out that baby from day 10. there may be other issues, but clearly if the material of the lgx has a given percentage potential for increased maximum expansion, an 18cm cylinder will not expand by the same raw measure as a 24cm cylinder.
these, as well as faulty pump placement, are substantive issues i intend to have addressed if or when i return to the states. but the bottom line is, even if i never have the chance for revisions, i love my ugly, crippled little stepchild because whenever i call him, he comes running
Thanks for the lucid explanation of one of the potential modes of failure of the implant as well as the caveat on position selection. VERY useful and it makes sense. The junction between RTE and inflatable cylinders must be one of the weak spots.
Girth is not nearly as widely reported as an issue as is length. Also, there seems to be a great deal of confusion about what is meant by gaining in length. One definition is the penis getting longer as measured before implant surgery and after. Another is gaining length over time from immediately after surgery to several months after surgery. Yet another is lengthening from flaccid to erect. Is seems every time I mention that third concept to anyone, including Doctors, an assumption is made that I must have misspoken and really meant one of the former concepts.
Not so. I like being a "grower" and, while I do not want to lose any length or girth of my erection, the shorter and more flexible my flaccid condition, the better. In any event, ultimate length, I believe from my reading here and in medical journals, is limited by three factors. 1) The size of the implant, 2) the dimensions of the patient's tunica albuginear and 3) the dimensions of the scar tissue "pseudo-capsule) formed around the implant.
Once installed, no implant can lengthen beyond its maximum capacity. The LGX's growth is limited to 18% of its uninflated length. This will be a certain number of inches or centimeters and that's that. The Patient's Tunica is limited in stretchiness, else erections would not be hard. Rigidity of erection depends on the Tunica hitting a hard limit of elasticity. I do not know if the Tunica can get longer or girthier over time by following a stretching regimen, but I suspect that capacity is severely limited. So, what you have is what you have until you stretch it (your tissues) or replace it (the implant).
So, revisions may take advantage of tissue having stretched over time to allow a larger implant. I wonder if the gains in length upon second implant are matched by a third implant in the same patient. I know it is possible to stretch a patient's own skin (over time) for use on another part of that patient's body.
I wonder if stretching the penis over time will allow lengthening of the penis in a similar manner. Anecdotal evidence says, "yes". Implant manufacturers and most surgeons say, "no". Perhaps it is just a way of reducing expectations. Or perhaps it is a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word "lengthen".
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However, that line of reasoning may only be relative to AMS because strongagain seems to have had a different protocol. I got mine right off of the operating room report.
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