LGXDownunder wrote:splitpeach wrote:My Dilemma: I'm late 30s, ED since teen. Been using injections for last seven years.
If I get an implant it will be a Rigicon. I have the option of getting one implanted by a leading surgeon in 3 weeks. I need to let them know now.
My dick is fine, nice size, good shape etc. Injections still work for me in some way but they're becoming less effective, less longer lasting and I'm getting tired of having to obtain them, carry them and sneak off to take them.
What would you all do?
I'm concerned about penile shortening, sensation loss but most of all shape change.
And of course there's no turning back.
Too young?
Too functional (with injections)?
Its a departmental trial they're doing so Rigicon may not be offered otherwise with them for some time after this. That's the other issue.
I want the Rigicon and I want it done by this surgeon.
Also, I wanted to do it after summer if anything. Why go through recovery all over summer. I want to be recovering in the "off season" over winter.
splitpeach, I have been reading your concerns for some time. I do get your dilemma, but ultimately no one can make that decision other than yourself.
If it was me I would go for it immediately, but I'm about 30 years older, had zero erectile function and every other solution had failed.
At your age the main concern for me would be how many revisions you may need during your lifetime, assuming no further medical advances improving implant longevity, or making them redundant altogether. Some of the other concerns are a risk, but most of us seem to have successful outcomes and those fears are never realised.
By all accounts you have possibly the best and most experienced implant surgeon in the UK. Sure, he gets the odd complaint like they all do, but I would have been very keen to have him do my surgery if he operated here.
I don't have the Rigicon AX but my AMS LGX has similar properties and I haven't noticed any significant shape change. Possibly very slightly more oval, but it's so trivial that no one would notice other than me. I did have temporary shortening post op (very common), which I recovered over a period of months with regular cycling. I also had some numbness at the base of my shaft above the penoscrotal incision, but it has almost gone now and has never affected the most sensitive parts or my ability to orgasm.
I live in a mild climate, so the recovery period timing wasn't a consideration. But in my experience post op conditions like cold glans and pain are worse in cold weather. I would actually prefer to recover over summer, especially in a colder climate. And the typical recovery period usually isn't all that long, to get to a point of relative comfort. Sex can often resume fairly quickly, depending on your surgeon's protocols and your own healing progress.
Yes it's a one way street, but I have no regrets having 24/7 on demand, robust, adjustable erections within seconds, that only retreat when you want them to. And over time I regained my pre ED erect size, orgasm 100% of the time from PIV sex, and now have an impressive flaccid hang as a bonus.
It really depends on how bad it is for you as things stand. I'm with Old Guy, if it's broken fix it, but it depends on your own definition of broken.
Thanks very much for this. I do think if I was older it would be straightforward. Or for that matter if injections were failing, but they're still workable for now.
I've had a brutal winter. Went through the wars. Very little sex and so I also think I need to give myself a summer before going into winter again. There's so much more sex to be had in spring and summer and as I'm getting older I'm counting them down!
Will wait for the MRI this week and take it from there.
What was your recovery like? Pretty much there after 2 months?
