Day 11, Morning I guess I'll keep writing in this journal until there are no more useful observations. I have a couple of small items this morning Alibaba: Thanks for your encouragement and humor. Haven't got my wife sitting on my lap yet to save on the heating pad, though. :) You mentioned to be ca...

Day 10, afternoon We made it back home yesterday. While traveling, I ended up inflating twice each day for one hour at a time instead of 4 times for a half hour each. Also drove about half the trip naked from the waist down, sometimes when I drove and sometimes when my wife did. Kept wearing a long-...

Day 9, morning I had trouble sleeping again last night. Either the stress of the drive through Bay Area traffic and over Donner Pass, the new pain from pumping up, or the excitement of finding out how well this thing works had my mind in overdrive and I only got 5 hours. Need to do better, but I'll ...

Day 8, evening. Activation!! Wow. What a big and wonderful day. There's a lot to report, and it's getting late, so I may save some for tomorrow morning. I went in for activation at around noon, Pacific Time. I had the surgery just a week ago yesterday, so this is really early compared to most I've s...

Hi Bill. RTE stands for Rear Tip Extender. Implants only come in a few different sizes. The AMS 700 has 15cm, 18cm, and 21cm and perhaps others. In order to get an implant the right size, extenders can be used to adjust for lengths needed in between these sizes. So if you really needed an implant th...

Andy: The tub is definitely the best. I bought a suction-cup "handle" that I could attach to the wall to help me get up and the first couple days, my wife was near by to assist if needed. With the lower level of pain I don't need the help now. In order of "goodness" to make thing...

Day 7, morning Wow. A week ago today I went in for the surgery. I still have the occasional "why did I do this?" moments, probably partially because I haven't been able to use the implant for its intended purpose yet. Yesterday I walked 2 different times, logging 2 miles each time. The pac...

I had infrapubic done last week by Karpman. I'm happy with the results so far. Pain has been low and I'm up and about sooner than I thought I'd be. Karpman has several reasons he prefers infrapubic instead of peno-scrotal. I was leaning to the other method before I spoke with him and afterward I was...

Day 6, morning. Swelling down a little more today. Usually when I wake up, my scrotum is full and packed. For the first time today, I could feel the pump and deflate button without taking a bath first. There's still extra fluid or something in there, but not as bad as it has been. Great progress. Fo...

Day 5 early afternoon. I'm definitely feeling better today. Both swelling and pain are down from yesterday. So if you're trying to plan when it starts to get better, for me it was between days 4 and 5. I was able to go for an extended walk. The distance was 1.5 miles and it took about 30 minutes, so...