slipnslider wrote:I was under the impression that once you get an implant, you can never go back.
Even if some better solution to ED comes out in the future, you're stuck with the implant because your natural penis parts have been removed for good.
Is this not accurate?
Pretty much accurate.
Some operation procedures ("tissue-sparing") attempt to keep some of the corpus cavernosum, which MIGHT enable a man to retain some of the little erectile function he has before the implant. Not something to count on, but sometimes it works. Never works very much, but even a little is heartening to a man.
So, the erectile parts may or may not be removed or damaged. You can count on their ability to function will be made worse (except in a few, very marginal, cases that have been documented).
Usually, even the most gentle, conservative surgery disrupts the blood inflow and the erectile tissue (corpus cavernosum) 100%, leaving the man 100% impotent (except for the implant making him 100% potent-as long as the implant works).