1 Month Post Implant - Results Meh

[Irish Lad 34]

Hi mate,

I just wanted to chime in because a lot of what you’re describing resonates with things I’ve felt earlier in my own recovery, and I think it’s completely valid to feel unsettled by the trade-offs at this stage.

You’re only a month out, though, and honestly this seems like one of those really awkward middle phases where the implant is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do mechanically, but the tissues, skin, and brain haven’t caught up yet. The “plastic” feel, odd flaccid behaviour, oval shape, thin-looking neck under the glans, all of that shows up repeatedly in early Titan recoveries. It doesn’t mean it’s permanent, just unfinished.

One thing others have mentioned here is that girth, especially in the distal half, is slow. Length often comes back quickly once cycling starts, but girth lags behind and can look worse before it looks better. The skin also takes time to re-drape and thicken again, which makes everything feel more artificial early on.

The flaccid issue is particularly jarring. Going from a natural flaccid to an early Titan “always semi” can really mess with your head and it’s not something most of us are warned about properly. From what I’ve been told, that usually improves a lot as the cylinders soften, the tissues relax, and you get more control over deflation.

I completely get the sense of loss you’re describing. It’s hard not to compare everything to a natural erection, especially when you remember how that used to feel. But from what I’m seeing, and what guys further along keep repeating, month one is way too early to judge shape, girth, or how “you” it feels.

You’re healing well, you’re cycling, and the mechanics are working. That’s actually the hard part done. The rest is slow, frustrating, and very non-linear.

I hope you stick around and keep updating. Posts like yours are important because they show the messy middle, not just the victory laps. And I genuinely think you’ll feel very differently a few months down the line.

All the best, and thanks for being honest about how it feels right now.

Hey bro. Thanks for chiming in I'll stick around and make sure I update my posts.

Can you link me a few other posts where people have written about losing/regaining girth in the distal half of the penis?

[Irish Lad 34]

So I’m still early along in the recovery process, 10 days postop from an AMS CX, but I too am surprised by the semi boner in the new flaccid state. I guess I was expecting it to be completely flat when deflated. Instead, it’s like a 30%-40% chub. I was worried that maybe there was something wrong with the valves and I wasn’t able to completely deflate because it still feels quite hard but reading these messages, maybe this is just the new normal. Or maybe (hopefully) it’ll start to soften overtime once I start cycling. I guess there are worse problems to have than hiding a bulge (like being limp when you’ve got a woman naked in bed and she’s begging for it) but at the same time, it’s a little uncomfortable to be stuffing this into my pants and walking around. We’ll see what happens next…

Hang in there bro. In the past few days I've seen big changes in terms of pain, discomfort and how the flacid feels. When you start cycling try get used to pointing it downwards or sideways and try get used to walking and wearing different outfits. I returned to the office for work in office trousers on Tuesday this week. It was unbearably sore and uncomfortable. I pointed the penis sort of sideways and hid behind a long coat fully zipped all day. I was so sore that I could not get out of bed for 2 days and went back to working from home, literally from bed. This weekend I've been moving around and wearing different underwear and I'm finding the pain and discomfort is mostly all gone and the flacid is now a bit after and easier to push down in tighter underwear, although still not ideal, but a lot more comfortable than what it was a few days ago.

[Irish Lad 34]

I’m coming up on 10 months post op, so a bit ahead of you. But still recent enough I remember the immediate post op period clearly.

My experience is that the flaccid will soften and begin to hang more naturally. It won’t feel so uncomfortable to get it to pack away. It won’t appear quite so erect when it is deflated.

The size and shape will continue to change with cycling. I can’t tell you exactly how, each of us is different. But it will continue to change.

But the shape will be different than before. I was told that would be the case. I was told to expect it would become the new “me”.

That is starting to be the case for me. My flaccid and my erect are becomeing “me”. They don’t seem so foreign anymore.

And damn…. It is DEFINITELY VERY functional. LOL. It is a bit of a super power now and I’m enjoying the hell out of that.

I'm sure I will adjust to it eventually just as you have and I'll find ways to embrace it but it will take time. I just have to accept that I have an implant now. I don't think I'll ever be a big fan of the flatter oval shape but I'll learn to adjust to it. I will probably consider things like penis sleeves and fillers in due course.

May I ask - when you're fully inflated for sex are you able to bend the penis or curve it a little for different positions? You know the way a natural erection does that.

[Yarak84]

What was the total price? I met with dr Rees for viridal injections and didn’t ask for implant costs yet as I plan to ride the wave with injections while they work

[LGXDownunder]

I'm sure I will adjust to it eventually just as you have and I'll find ways to embrace it but it will take time. I just have to accept that I have an implant now. I don't think I'll ever be a big fan of the flatter oval shape but I'll learn to adjust to it. I will probably consider things like penis sleeves and fillers in due course.

Irish, try and focus on the positives, keep cycling and let the healing process evolve. You may find that you don't need anything further.

May I ask - when you're fully inflated for sex are you able to bend the penis or curve it a little for different positions? You know the way a natural erection does that.

My experience is that my penis is much more rigid with the implant than a natural erection, when fully pumped up for sex.
If I try and bend it significantly, it just bounces straight back. Even during really vigorous sex it barely moves, but does have a very small amount of "give" if I move around, and it feels normal. I prefer it very hard for sex but you could try different levels of inflation for more flexibility.
That said I can slowly bend it in all directions at full inflation, as in for Perito exercises during cycling.

[ElbowRoom]

It will improve over time. The first few weeks my glans was pale Nd shriveled and never really engorged. Now that is much improved, I get good spontaneous glans engorgement fairly often. And continued aggressive cycling (I try for 100% inflation for one hour twice daily) has improved the shape and size of my penis.

[Irish Lad 34]

What was the total price? I met with dr Rees for viridal injections and didn’t ask for implant costs yet as I plan to ride the wave with injections while they work

£13,800 as a day case in London. He also does surgery at a hospital in Winchester. It was more expensive there, £15,100 in Winchester I think. Those prices are for a Coloplast Titan. Boston Scientific implants were a bit more expensive, and Rigicons were a bit cheaper, although I'm not sure if he's still doing Rigicon.

How did you find him during consultations? I was prescribed Viridal Duo too. Unfortunately for me the Viridial did not work consistently enough. It only sort of worked half the time, half the time it would not induce a good enough erection. I was hoping they would work because I would have rode them out for as long as possible myself as well.

I find those Viridal Duo shots are very convenient if they work, because you don't really need to mix anything or mess around with different components. You can easily carry one or two shots around in your pocket.

If shots worked for me I would have used the Viridal for spontaneous events or flexible events, and the Caverject for more organised sex. I had a public health card prescription for cheap Caverject and Rees practically gave me access to an unlimited supply of Viridal so I could have kept a stash of Viridal in the pocket and a stash of Caverject in the bedroom wardrobe at all times. If only they worked for me...

[Irish Lad 34]

It will improve over time. The first few weeks my glans was pale Nd shriveled and never really engorged. Now that is much improved, I get good spontaneous glans engorgement fairly often. And continued aggressive cycling (I try for 100% inflation for one hour twice daily) has improved the shape and size of my penis.

I hope so. Glans engorgement is not much of an issue for me. I've gotten glans engorgement many times since the implant. I'm now 5+ weeks out from surgery and I've masturbated a couple of times with fairly decent glans engorgement, however the girth and shape of the shaft isn't changing at all. After the first few cycles the length stretched out, as if the implant had been bundled up a bit like an accordion in my penis, but when I cycled it, it just kind of unfolded and stretched out. The length is not too bad, it's down about 0.5 - 0.7cm. I can fidget around withot it a bit and get it as close to maybe 0.3cm of my previous length, but it generally sits at about 0.5 - 0.7cm less than it did when fully pumped and fully engorged. I'm kind of OK with the length aspect, it's close enough for me. I don't really expect it to get longer tbh. However the loss of girth and change of shape in the upper half of the penis annoys me. It's hard to see how it could possibly get much better. I managed to cycle to 100% a few days ago. The pump got stuck and would not allow any more pumps, but I've only achieved that once so far. I do generally get to 90+% of max inflation every day though.

[fucked0ne]

I'm 1 month out from penoscrotal implant surgery. Fitted with a Coloplast Titan 20cm + 1cm RTE by Rowland Rees in London. Age 35.

I have probably healed well. No signs of infection or serious complications. I'm still a bit sore at times, but I think I'm well on the way to recovery. I started cycling 9 days ago.

I'm not jumping for joy with the implant although I can see now it will function very well, as in, it will be able to penetrate a vagina. It most definitely seems like a downgrade from a normal penis.

- The deflated penis very much annoys me because it's not like a flacid at all. It points out. It's stiff and hard and feels like plastic. It has to be forced into an uncomfortable position so that it does not look like an inappropriate erection in public.

- I have lost girth and the shape of the penis has changed. At the base I might be marginally wider than what I was pre-op. Mid shaft marginally smaller, but upper half of the shaft I've lost 0.5 inches. Down from appx 4.4 to 3.9 inches in the upper end. The upper left hand side has caved in. The consequence is when I'm pumped up and fully engorged the "neck" of the penis now looks very thin compared to the swollen glans. Length is only slightly shorter than what I had before; maximum with glans engorgement about 6.1 inches BP down from 6.3. Length doesn't concern me, but girth and shape do. Erect penis is now flatter, more oval and doesn't have that nice natural dimension of a natural erection.

- The penis feels more plastic and less meaty. The skin doesn't engorge the way it used to. It used to show visible veins and it had a nice warm pulsating feeling. Now it just looks and feels more like thin skin spread over an implant.

The positives are that it's easy to get an on demand erection that stays hard, but I just don't like the trade offs.

I'm looking into getting filler to make the shape a bit better and to fill in the upper half where I've lost girth. It would be nice to get some sort of soft padding between the skin and the implant.

I'm wondering will VED help puff out the skin a bit the way it used to pre-implant?

You have to cycle for at least 8 -12 months.

[browny30]

Hi, like others, post one month, I felt the same, I've just hit 10 weeks and there's a massive improvement, I'm only about 1 centimetre smaller then pre implant and I feel that it would still grow.
I can now have sex, admittedly it's not amazing as I feel sore for the rest of the day, but this is slowly getting better.
I still get cycling pain but that's only when I pump to the max. I can tell another 3-4 months It'll be ok