Infection - My Story

[Grad777]

Thank you Principles. That was really helpful. One last question….I noticed at one time you had a total implant length of 26 cm and most recently 23 cm. Did the reduced cylinder length translate over to a noticeably shorter penile length for you when aroused ?

[principles]

I haven't kept accurate measurements, but visually, when fully aroused/engorged, perhaps 1 cm short, and I have a suspicion that is actually because my current Titan is tied up in all sorts of ways inside the tunica (proximally and distally) due to my previous infections and the proximal/distal perforations I had. I believe that restricts the full potential expansion of my engorged corpora, but this is a tangent of pure speculation. In short, when fully aroused, I notice very little size loss compared to my 25 cm or 26 cm implants. Thus, the ring. Without the ring, without any engorgement, the size is noticeably smaller than with the 26 cm implant.

[Grad777]

Well that is good to know there is something that will help. I will keep you posted on how things progress. Thanks for all the help. I’m going to have the catheter and drain removed tomorrow.

I forgot to add that he placed the implant through a transverse penoscrotal incision but placed the reservoir through a separate counter incision in the “lower left quadrant posterior to the rectus muscle “

I’m not sure why he had to do that. On my previous 2 surgeries he did everything through a single incision.