LetoMan wrote:Let me try to make this as simple as possible.
Different types of materials can be a fixed length. For example, you could have six inches of medical pipe, or a six inch inelastic condom.
No matter what you do with the pipe, it will always be six inches. You can’t fit a six inch pipe into a five inch space. But the condom can bend, scrunch, twist, turn. It’s pliable. You could fit a six inch condom into a five inch space.
Please note I am not saying implant “cylinders” are like a condom. But they are much closer to a condom than a pipe. The material is designed to become rigid when inflated. But when uninflated it has a lot of “give” to it. It bends, it twists.
When the doc puts an implant inside the tunica, the tunica is what restricts the full extension of that implant.
The doc “sizes” the implant to you by giving your dick a super-stretch. They do this while you are under anaesthesia after cutting you open, and run a string through your penis and poke it through your glans to measure the distal length, and poke deep into your crus to measure the proximal length. Put them together, and that’s the size of the implant you are going to get, including extenders.
What they are measuring using this super-stretch is the limit of how far your tunica can stretch, and how deep an implant can go into your crus.
Once measured, they shove this semi-rigid condom/balloon-like thing into your dick, both distal and proximal. For example, I got a 21cm implant with 3cm of rear extenders. I have a total of 24 cm of implant, about 9.5 inches.
But! Without my dick being super-stretched, the space it was being shoved into was only about 8.25 inches. That’s not a big difference… you could easily fit a 9.5 inch condom into an 8.25 inch space with a minimum of scrunching and twisting.
The result: after surgery and swelling going down, when I inflated my implant, I had about 4.75 inches distal, and 3.5 inches proximal; i.e, I had a 4.75 inch cock.
The reason why is because my tunica could not initially replicate the super-stretch measurement with only the internal force of the expanding implant. Even when inflated, my implant remained scrunched in a space smaller than its fully-extended size.
The tunica is sort of like a pliable rubber hose. It doesn’t really want to stretch, but it can. It REALLY doesn’t want to stretch when it is unaccustomed to being stretched, such as when it is coming off an extended period of ED. The super-stretch can get it fully extended (while you are under anesthesia), but just inflating the implant doesn’t quite get it there.
So, what happens when you cycle? You start stretching the tunica. And whether it happens little by little or all at once, the tunica eventually responds to the stretching by “giving” more, hopefully eventually fully extending itself to the super-stretch measurement.
That’s what happened to me. Eventually my tunica gave me additional space, such that now when fully inflated I have a 6 inch distal cock, with 3.5 inches in my crus.
Make sense? The implant doesn’t expand. The tunica does, and that allows the implant to fully extend.
A malleable implant is not inflatable. It doesn’t scrunch. It’s sorta what you guys are thinking an IPP is like. With a malleable, you get what you get… a certain size malleable means a certain size dick, because a malleable can’t gently stretch the tunica, which is why malleable measurements are undersized relative to IPPs, as they are dependent on the tunica size at the time of implant, and can lead to erosion problems (the malleable poking through the tunica) if they are oversized.
And that’s why a “flaccid” IPP is slightly shorter than an erect IPP… the implant can scrunch and bend, and your dick is shorter and not erect as a result.
I hope that all helps. If it doesn’t, talk to your docs!
Be well, Leto
Leto, thank you so much for the detailed explanation! Now all my questions are answered! It couldn't be more clearer!!
Could you please tell me if your MS-pump releases with one press? Or do you have to hold the button down, like the Titan?