Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

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NothingIsOver
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby NothingIsOver » Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:12 pm

No, I am not worried about needing revision surgeries in the future. I am worried about losing any more time to the insidious disease known as ED.

Despite expressing this sentiment to them, I have had a couple urologists try to discourage me from having the implant at my age because it will mean multiple surgeries.

I think there are two things going on here. One, they are not confident in their surgical skill and do not want to screw up a relatively young man's penis. Two, because their dicks still work, they cannot appreciate the tremendous psychological cost of doing nothing. They discount this and focus on the risks entailed by multiple surgeries.

OK, I understand there is some risk there. But if I do nothing, it is GUARANTEED that I will be miserable and miss out on years of good sex.

I'll cross the revision bridge when I come to it.
Born 1982
ED due to Peyronie's/VL
Implanted March 2021 by Dr. Tariq Hakky
Titan XL - 24 cm - Touch Pump - no RTEs - 125 cc reservoir
"Nothing is over until we decide it is!" - Bluto, Animal House

ontheroad
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby ontheroad » Tue Feb 02, 2021 6:21 pm

I really get your points guys. My fear is to be 50yo and having my Dr to say, "I'm sorry I cannot put you another implant, your penis is fucked because of all the implants you've had". I don't even actually know if this can even happen but having in mind that I need a reconstruction surgery plus implant makes me think that.

Maybe it's just my internal fear, but I can do nothing against it, I just need to find the best solution to my peyronie to have a working penis.

Nadie123
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Nadie123 » Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:04 pm

Yes very worried and very afraid
25 -year-old Colombian ... Psychological ED for life, I use viagra spontaneously with ex cellent results, it stopped working and developed a leak ... cialis + viagra work halfway in one position hate mi life but I am struggling to get an implant

Lost Sheep
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Lost Sheep » Wed Feb 03, 2021 12:35 pm

I had a conversation with a urologist who implanted a man just months before Viagra became available. The man would have been an ideal candidate for the oral medication, but because Viagra was not available had surgery that forever destroyed his chances for natural (pharmaceutically aided) erection in exchange for an implant-erection. Years later, this unfortunate sequence of events still bothered him (the urologist).

Getting a radical and irreversible surgery that precludes better treatments that are or soon will be available (before the surgery is absolutely necessary) is inadvisable. (I was going to use the word "crazy", but that seemed unnecessarily hyperbolic.)

On the other hand, an implant, though an imperfect solution, is a pretty good one. Delaying in the hope of a better solution wastes a lot of time in which you might be having some pretty good sex, establishing a relationship, getting on with life. Not that a sexless life is worthless (and one must also note that good sex can still be had even without a working penis).
Lost Sheep
AMS LGX 18+3 Nov 6, 2017
Prostate Cancer 2023
READ OLD THREADS-ask better questions -better understand answers
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Pre-op VED therapy helps. Post-op is another matter

Norrr813
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Norrr813 » Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:43 pm

That’s what I’m afraid of. Doctors coming out with a new procedure to fix penile venous leakage after I got an implant. IMO nothing can beat the feeling of a natural erection. I don’t want to have to get a Penile implant, but when i turn 35 I’m getting one. I’m 28 now.

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phallus
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby phallus » Fri Feb 05, 2021 10:16 pm

Norrr813 wrote:That’s what I’m afraid of. Doctors coming out with a new procedure to fix penile venous leakage after I got an implant. IMO nothing can beat the feeling of a natural erection. I don’t want to have to get a Penile implant, but when i turn 35 I’m getting one. I’m 28 now.

Do injections work on you?
Born 1995
Possibly VL since 16.
Experimenting with PGE1 injections
which occasionally works too good and other times,
too poorly. Confusing situation.

Whywhywhy
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Whywhywhy » Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:59 pm

What is the concern with 3-4 revisions? Is it possible infection at every operation?

Aemill
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Aemill » Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:04 am

I got implanted at 24 and regret nothing. There were some complications during the operation (scar tissue, AMS CXR) that might have been averted had I gone for the operation sooner. Overall I am happy, I am partly looking forward to a revision because you get upsized and a newer model of implant. Dont forget that with time the implants will only get better.
Born 1995, VL since 18, pills dont work, injections provide good 20 minute erection which hurts, implanted AMS CXR 14+6 due to fibrosis

Lost Sheep
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby Lost Sheep » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:33 pm

Aemill wrote:I got implanted at 24 and regret nothing. There were some complications during the operation (scar tissue, AMS CXR) that might have been averted had I gone for the operation sooner. Overall I am happy, I am partly looking forward to a revision because you get upsized and a newer model of implant. Dont forget that with time the implants will only get better.

The replacement implant is not ALWAYS larger than the previous one (though downsizing an implant that was properly sized in the first place is pretty much unheard of).

Note that upsizing the implant in the revision does not always mean upsizing your penis. If the new implant goes deeper into your crus or deeper into your glans than the previous one you may well end up with the same size usable penis length. The phenomenon of upsizing the implant length has been well established, but now the medical journals are just starting to look at what that means for actual penis length (which is a bit more difficult to measure).

Very likely you will see some increase in length (and girth, too), but unlikely to be as much as the increase in implant size.

Still, something to look forward to.
Lost Sheep
AMS LGX 18+3 Nov 6, 2017
Prostate Cancer 2023
READ OLD THREADS-ask better questions -better understand answers
Be part of your medical team
Document pre-op size-photos and written records
Pre-op VED therapy helps. Post-op is another matter

wolfpacker
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Re: Younger guys, are you worried about possibly 3-4 replacement implants in your lifetime?

Postby wolfpacker » Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:35 pm

Aemill wrote:I got implanted at 24 and regret nothing. There were some complications during the operation (scar tissue, AMS CXR) that might have been averted had I gone for the operation sooner. Overall I am happy, I am partly looking forward to a revision because you get upsized and a newer model of implant. Dont forget that with time the implants will only get better.


What are the length and girth size measurements of your penis with the implant?
Early 30s with ED for years from penis enlargement stretching and jelqing. Implant by Dr Eid on 24 June 2021 with a Titan 24cm with +1cm RTE on one side and -1cm cut off on the other side

My journal: viewtopic.php?t=17202


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