Here and elsewhere I hear implant surgery referred to as the last resort. My question is: Why is the intervention that sufferers are most pleased with delayed and avoided? I skipped injections due to medical contraindications and refused to attempt with a VED and I am so glad I bypassed my previous ...

My surgeon also recommended pulling down on the pump.

My implant physician seems to think that any infection in the groin region has at least some potential for infecting the implant. He is now my regular urologist and he worries about a prostate biopsy, not needed yet, causing an infection in the implant. I would get right on any concerning symptoms a...

Autoinflation right after surgery is not unusual. For me, fully deflating and wearing snug, stretchy briefs seemed to help keep it deflated. I wore Evolve by 2Xist from Target for several weeks and that seemed to train the reservoir.

To choose to live in Alaska is to accept that it will be more challenging to get the most advanced medical care there. I would wait until I could go to one of the best and then let him do what he does. Surgeons rarely accept instruction from patients and may fear you are setting him up for a lawsuit...

Rob, god luck with your surgery and your search for an improved life. I am sixty-six and had my surgery three years ago. It works perfectly.
Dave

Thanks guys. Hopefully I have dodged cancer for a while longer. However, if I have a biopsy and it is positive for cancer, I will have surgery. Watching cancer grow is not my idea of great entertainment.

I got my implant in 2013 and it has been great. This summer my PSA level went from 1.6 a year ago to 3.7. Dr. karpman doubts it is cancer for a couple of reasons: 1. There is some kind of algorithm related to PSA levels by age and the probability of cancer and my levels have been low. 2. The rate of...

Dr. Karpman urged me to use it often and stated: "You can't wear it out." I would take that to mean that age is more of a c=factor than use.

Squeezing the pump bulb is often, if not usually, difficult at the beginning. I had to use both hands for quite some time. I would hold the bulb between my thumb and index finger on my right hand and then place the thumb and index finger of my right had over them and stabilize the pump assembly with...