"Shrink To Fit" implant danger

[DougAnd]

I am no expert. but some things seem very obvious to me.
When my first uro warned me for years about implant down sides I was concerned. When his referred implanter showed me that he would shrink me about an inch, I was shocked. When my 2nd opinion Doc told me he couldn’t guarantee not to shrink me less than 2 inches or more if he thought that was best, I was terrified. But actually, these brilliant, high IQ, zero common sense, faulty program computer robotic specialists may have based their shrink to fit procedure on sound medical practices. Well, almost.
To see this procedure actually described go to “Surgeon’s bible.” The logic probably goes something like this: Wounded skin and tissue immediately begins to heal itself. An important part of the process is scarring. The body does this to strengthen and protect the wound from further injury. I think Larry very correctly said that scar tissue is like concrete. It is hard. This is to protect the wound and to allow for quicker safer movement of the area during repair. Unfortunately, it also shrinks the tissue to make it rock hard. Implant surgeons apparently use this natural process to safely shrink your penis tightly around the implant, giving you a very solid and snug fit. Great plan, right? Actually, not really.
Compare your newest and oldest scars. Depending on where they are and how old the scars you should see a stark difference between them. Over time scar tissue thins, softens and stretches. Again, based on his posts Larry would agree I think. Example, earlier this year I cut the top on my finger second joint down to the bone. Although the top scar was almost invisible in three weeks I had a large hump on top of my finger. Now the hump is only a small bump. My finger stretches the skin daily so in only a few months the scarring has become soft and pliable. When you inflate your penis the same thing happens.
I’m no expert but I’m sure that in many situations shrunken penises are future problems. Take me for example. ED and Peyronies had shrunken me from at least 6 7/8 inches to 5 3/8 inches, a loss of 1 ½ inches. But my Tunica was not affected. Only the inside of it. So I was able to VED back to normal, 6 7/8 inches. (I now realize that I used unsafe pressure but it did shred the plaque and stretch the scar tissue) But suppose I never did that, went to uro #2 and said nothing, just let him shrink me from 5 3/8 to about 4 ½. My tunica would still be 6 7/8 and with any implant but most especially the LGX I would have begun to stretch out, the tips would have come loose causing major pain and I would have been back in surgery again. Your math may add up to a life time of healthy sex, no problems in spite of your having been shrunk an inch by surgery. But guys like me would probably not have the same experience.
In my opinion surgeons who do not find out what their patients’ actual tunica length is BEFORE SURGERY are criminally negligent.

[oldbeek]

The tunica is like that hard ligament you find in a steak except it is a tube that holds the tissue that is engorged to make you hard with blood pressure when you are excited. There are 2 of them. They both attach in your cruse. The cruse,(one on each side) is wrapped with muscle on the side of your legs clear back to your anus. Mine was so tuff it took another stab to get an injection needle through it. It is so hard that it will actually bend the tip on a 31 ga needle.
Anyway, IT WILL NOT SHRINK ! The tissue around it will shrink with athropy. Only DURING the operation can the doctor measure the inside length of the tunica. One measurement from the incision into the base of the cruse and one measurement out to the glans. The combination of these 2 measurements is the TOTAL length of the implant. My Dr likes RTEs, so he put in a 5cm rte into my cruse with a 15 cm 700 lgx out to the glans. Some doc's do not use rte's and the total implant is inflatable. All of this can not be known before surgery.
I have wonderful 5 3/4 inch dick that is inflatable from my pubic bone to the tip of my glans. My Dr assures me with cycling daily I will regain my loss since my radical prostatectomy and be back to 6 1/2. Hope this long winded explanation clears things up.
To add more,, The tissue is not removed from the tunica. Just moved over to insert the implant tubes. Yes the tissue is damaged, But, in some cases it will still have natural engorgement as before implant if you have nerves still intact. ( I do not) This is winning the trifecta. You can always get hard and stay hard with added natural engorgement.