Cycling advice?

[HardTimes26]

After my first couple days of cycling, I'm able to reach about half-mast. So far, the AMS Tenacio bulb is tricky to grasp — keeps slipping around. And the tiny deflate button is tough to find; it seems to sit right under the scrotum stitches. My doc says to depress it for 5 seconds, then squeeze the shaft to return to flaccid. Other sites suggest that pushing the button should be enough. Still figuring it out...

Also, I think somewhere I read that once pumped up, it's important to stretch/bend the shaft, so it will orient upward? Is that correct?

[LGXDownunder]

After my first couple days of cycling, I'm able to reach about half-mast. So far, the AMS Tenacio bulb is tricky to grasp — keeps slipping around. And the tiny deflate button is tough to find; it seems to sit right under the scrotum stitches. My doc says to depress it for 5 seconds, then squeeze the shaft to return to flaccid. Other sites suggest that pushing the button should be enough. Still figuring it out...

Also, I think somewhere I read that once pumped up, it's important to stretch/bend the shaft, so it will orient upward? Is that correct?

That sounds like you are starting to make good progress . It takes time to become friends with the various bits. You will eventually get to know their idiosyncrasies. You'll polish your technique over time and the whole process will become almost automatic. Always go with what your own doc tells you. For my MS pump the "standard" instruction is to press the tiny deflate button for 4 seconds. But over time it softened and now I can often just give a quick squeeze and it then auto deflates. But sometimes it doesn't and I have to press it again. Try not to get caught up in the wide variation of (sometimes conflicting) post op protocols by different surgeons. It will just do your head in. I don't know why either, it is what it is.

The bending while erect is optional but surgeons often seem to recommend it, I thought mainly to help regain size by adding more pumps. AKA Perito "The Exercise", it seems to have been made popular by US implant urologist Dr Paul Perito. My surgeon has his own take on it - bend the erect penis as far as possible at each of N,S,E,W, holding as long as tolerable in each position. My first priority was to reclaim my pre ED length and he told me to focus mainly on the downward position for that. I'm sure there are other versions. Perito himself has some good YouTube videos on his approach and the rationale behind it.

I don't know about stretching the shaft though. The implant cylinders are already doing that when you inflate the device.