Are you happy with your implant?

The final frontier. Deciding when, if and how.



Do you regret getting your implant?

No, I love it
65
72%
It's okay
14
16%
I wish I persisted with other treatments
2
2%
Yes, I regret it
9
10%
 
Total votes: 90

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duke_cicero
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby duke_cicero » Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:06 pm

Mark1974 wrote:
Discovernew wrote:
Mark1974 wrote:I'm schedule to change to an AMS on 8/21, but I'm tempted to just explant


What's the point of explanting?

It would natural again, albeit mortally wounded

I would look down at the shriveled. useless 2 inch fibrosed organ and touch the shaft full of scar and my own biological shit tissues and the glans that will have shrunken, but free of tips and warm again and I should be revolted, but my first thought would be "thank god those rods aren't in there"


I don't know that there's any way to know for sure that you'll be satisfied with explantation, especially long term.
Born 1990. ED since age 20 after a bicycle accident. Coloplast Genesis malleable implanted December 2024.

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Mark1974
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby Mark1974 » Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:15 pm

duke_cicero wrote:
Mark1974 wrote:
Discovernew wrote:
What's the point of explanting?

It would natural again, albeit mortally wounded

I would look down at the shriveled. useless 2 inch fibrosed organ and touch the shaft full of scar and my own biological shit tissues and the glans that will have shrunken, but free of tips and warm again and I should be revolted, but my first thought would be "thank god those rods aren't in there"


I don't know that there's any way to know for sure that you'll be satisfied with explantation, especially long term.

Satisfied?
Born 6/15/74. I have substantial venous leak with fairly severe hour-glassing, but no hard plaques. My urologist is Dr. Laurence Levine who performed a Doppler Ultrasound and diagnosed me with VL in 2020. Surgery scheduled for Coloplast Genesis 5/19/25

Discovernew
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby Discovernew » Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:17 pm

Mark1974 wrote:
Discovernew wrote:
Mark1974 wrote:I'm schedule to change to an AMS on 8/21, but I'm tempted to just explant


What's the point of explanting?

It would natural again, albeit mortally wounded

I would look down at the shriveled. useless 2 inch fibrosed organ and touch the shaft full of scar and my own biological shit tissues and the glans that will have shrunken, but free of tips and warm again and I should be revolted, but my first thought would be "thank god those rods aren't in there"


Mark, it depends. Do you want to have sex? if the answer is no, then explant it and forget about it.

But if you do want to have sex, then get an ipp. You are saying the rods bother you, but on the ipp when deflated you will not feel the rods so that will not be an issue at all. You will feel a pump near your testicles though, hope that doesn't bother you
Implanted October 11, 2024, Dr Karaman. Infla10 AX 20cm +1cm RTE.
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ED about 14 years. Pills worked for 12 years, later worked 50%. Tried almost everything, nothing worked: Shockwave-Testosterone-PRP-Stem Cells-Botox, Etc

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Kodixx
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby Kodixx » Thu Jul 10, 2025 4:45 pm

Mark, FWIW, I look at my implant a lot like I imagine someone might look at their prosthetic below the knee. Sure it's not the same as the lower leg once was. But, together with the rest of the leg, it enables walking. And to the degree that it's part of the solution to be able to walk again, it is a good thing.

The IPP will never make your penis exactly like it once was. But, together with the rest of the penis and pelvic parts, it enables PIV (or other) sex. And, to the degree that it's part of the solution to be able to have PIV (or other) sex again, it is a good thing.

- Chuck
Mark1974 wrote:I'm schedule to change to an AMS on 8/21, but I'm tempted to just explant
Feb 2025 - 58 yo, 38 with greatest wife ever
AMS CX, Tenacio, Dr Broghammer (excellent) - pre-op L:7", post-op @ 5 mo L: 6.75" G: 5.5"
2 wks pain, cycling-sex-lifting @ 7 wks, only minor discomfort @ 10 wks, felt like 'new normal' @ 16 wks

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SWorks17
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby SWorks17 » Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:14 pm

Kodixx
The IPP will never make your penis exactly like it once was. But, together with the rest of the penis and pelvic parts, it enables PIV (or other) sex. And, to the degree that it's part of the solution to be able to have PIV (or other) sex again, it is a good thing.


You got that right Chuck :!:

SWorks
Age 67, Garden Ridge Texas, Boston Scientific Rezum procedure for benign enlarged prostate 19 May 21, AMS LGX 18cm with 3cm RT's installed 5 Nov 2021 by Major Dr Shane Barney, BAMC, San Antonio, Texas, Married 36 years.
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Mark1974
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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby Mark1974 » Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:11 pm

Discovernew wrote:
Mark1974 wrote:
Discovernew wrote:
What's the point of explanting?

It would natural again, albeit mortally wounded

I would look down at the shriveled. useless 2 inch fibrosed organ and touch the shaft full of scar and my own biological shit tissues and the glans that will have shrunken, but free of tips and warm again and I should be revolted, but my first thought would be "thank god those rods aren't in there"


Mark, it depends. Do you want to have sex? if the answer is no, then explant it and forget about it.

But if you do want to have sex, then get an ipp. You are saying the rods bother you, but on the ipp when deflated you will not feel the rods so that will not be an issue at all. You will feel a pump near your testicles though, hope that doesn't bother you

I would like to still be able to orgasm. This part worries me, but I don't think I can do another implant
Born 6/15/74. I have substantial venous leak with fairly severe hour-glassing, but no hard plaques. My urologist is Dr. Laurence Levine who performed a Doppler Ultrasound and diagnosed me with VL in 2020. Surgery scheduled for Coloplast Genesis 5/19/25

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Re: Are you happy with your implant?

Postby wanttokno » Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:12 am

I’m very happy with my implant because I know what it’s like to fall down again and again with the struggle of ED. Due to a spinal injury I lost not only the ability to get an erection but also to orgasm and urinate freely, that was 28 years ago. There have definitely been some trials in the past almost eleven years with an implant. Almost exclusively due to surgeon created issues. But life with the ability to perform sexually is a definite improvement over not having that capacity and I was seeing my manhood shrink away with the passage of time. Even when the first eight years of implantation were painful much of the time. With my initial implant it took almost two years for that pain to resolve itself. And for my first revision I had raw nerve pain like a hot poker for the entire two years I had it.
HalleluYAH, it must be true, third times the charm because Dr. Terrel in Fort Smith Arkansas did what two high volume surgeons couldn’t do, and that was give me an implant experience that after an easy recovery was pain free.
And one of those jokers, I mean surgeons, ended up at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after leaving the Elsemere Delaware VA hospital while the other was done by a high volume doc at the University of Pennsylvania hospital.
I’m happy with it but even when it was a literal pain in the ball sack, I was happy because I could again function without drama or planning albeit with some pain.
62 yrs old
Implanted 04/14 w/ an LGX 18cm +3
Size 7.6-7.7 in L x 5 G
65 ml res w/45 ml
Revision 04/20
Titan 22 cm Size 7.5 in L x 5.5 G
125 ml res
Revision 11/22
Titan 22 cm + 1 Size 7.5 in L x 5.5 G
125 ml res filled


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