Postby Kiwias » Wed Dec 03, 2025 3:36 am
Post-Op Sensations and Healing – My Week-One Experience (with ChatGPT-Assisted Explanations)
I’m just past the first week after my infrapubic Titan implant and wanted to summarise the various sensations and healing stages I’ve experienced. Throughout this first week I’ve been documenting every symptom or sensation to ChatGPT and getting real-time explanations about what each change likely represents in the normal recovery process.
This post is a consolidated version of that discussion.
Overall, things have gone smoothly, but the sensations have been strange, variable, and sometimes surprising. None of this appears abnormal.
1. Nerve Sensations (Twinges, Zaps, Pinches)
Several days in, I started getting intermittent “zaps,” twinges, and pinchy/stretchy sensations deep on the ventral side of the shaft, especially around the urethra. These occasionally shoot toward the frenulum. Some are quick stabs, some feel like an electrical flick.
ChatGPT explained that this is consistent with deep nerve branches reawakening:
early return: urethral & perineal nerves
later return: more superficial sensory nerves to the glans and frenulum
twinges ease when the penis is supported or repositioned — which matches my experience
These sensations come and go, sometimes disappearing entirely for a few hours.
2. Scrotal Sensations
On the left side of the scrotum (just under the penis), I’ve had deeper pinchy, stretchy “waves.” These tend to ease when I lift the scrotum or reposition things. On the right side I get tiny, superficial pin-pricks.
ChatGPT said this asymmetry makes sense because:
the pump sits behind my left testicle, so deeper nerves there are irritated
the right side is getting more “skin-level” nerve return first
It all fits normal postoperative nerve recovery patterns.
3. Glans and Shaft Sensation Changes
This part was particularly interesting. Early on, the glans was completely numb. Over the past few days, I’ve noticed:
some itch-like signals at the tip
slight “internal” sensation despite the skin being numb
familiar “corporal bumps” inside the glans when I palpate the cylinder tips
ChatGPT explained that glans sensation returns in layers:
deep>middle>surface.
So you can feel internal structures long before the outer skin wakes up — exactly what I’ve been experiencing.
The shaft skin is mostly numb, but ventral shaft sensation is returning earlier than dorsal. Again, that matches the known nerve pathways.
4. Changes in Urinary Urge Sensation
One thing I didn’t expect was a change in how my bladder urge feels. The urge is present but somehow muted or different. Urination is normal.
ChatGPT explained that this is common because:
the catheter irritates urethral nerves
retractors and cylinder insertion stretch the urethra
swelling in the spongiosum blunts sensory signals
Apparently this can take weeks to feel “normal” again.
5. Wound Healing and Incision Sensations
My infrapubic incision is now:
dry
brown and crusty
slightly raised
with pink edges
and the skin around it moves freely
It’s starting to lift and crack as the glue layer detaches. ChatGPT confirmed this is the normal transition from the protective crust to the softening scar beneath.
This phase is exactly where most guys are between days 6–12.
6. Palpating the Tubing
I can feel the tubing on the left side, deep in the fat pad at the root of the penis, tracking down to where it contacts the pubic bone.
ChatGPT explained this is exactly where the tubing is supposed to be for an infrapubic implant:
exits the rear of the cylinders
travels through the fat pad
runs against the pubic bone
drops into the scrotum to the pump
It’s firm silicone, so it feels like a “hard cord.” Apparently it will be less noticeable over the next few months.
7. Not Feeling the Reservoir at All
I can’t detect the reservoir in any way.
According to ChatGPT, this is the ideal outcome for a midline infrapubic reservoir.
It sits:
deep behind the pubic bone
in the retropubic space
beneath multiple fascia layers
Most men never feel their reservoir, even when trying.
8. Other Minor Symptoms
Just documenting these for future readers:
two small glans scabs (one already fell off)
some dry, flaky scrotal skin
a sense of “heaviness” in the genitals early on (now resolving)
a persistent “pinching” left-base sensation that has mostly faded
random nerve zaps in both shaft and scrotum
All of these are consistent with resolving swelling and nerve recovery.
Conclusion
Everything I’ve experienced so far appears to be textbook recovery.
The numbness, the deep urethral sensations, the glans waking up from the inside out, the tubing palpation, the absent reservoir, the shifting urinary sensations, the incision behaviour — all consistent with the normal healing sequence after an infrapubic Titan.
Posting this in case it helps someone else understand the weird assortment of sensations in the first week or two. Happy to answer questions, and I’ll update again once cycling begins.
66yrs. Radical prostatectomy 2017. ED last 3yrs. Mild Peyronies Jan 2025. Current 7.8L, 4.3 G. Previous 6.5 L, 4.0.G. Improvement comes from using RestoreX and VED both to treat Peyronies and prepare for implant.
