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Does anyone’s RTE extend into the base of the outer shaft of the penis, or are they always buried beneath the external penis inside the body?
I have 18 cm + 3 cm RTE and it feels like they can be felt at the base of my penis and the inflated cylinders starting about an inch above. Maybe it’s the RTE or an uninflatable portion of the cylinder?

My RTE,s are 5 cm and they run from almost my rectum inside my cruses to just below my pubic bone where the inflatable tubes begin.

Unfortunately this issue concerning the use of RTEs in implants will never be resolved. Please be mature enough not to criticize a brother who can't just change what his surgeon did to please you. Mind your own dam business. If you aren't capable of encouragement, please don't post your critical garbage. We need encouragement not condemnation. Thank you
donnie1954@mail.com

Tsanchez12369 wrote:Does anyone’s RTE extend into the base of the outer shaft of the penis, or are they always buried beneath the external penis inside the body?
I have 18 cm + 3 cm RTE and it feels like they can be felt at the base of my penis and the inflated cylinders starting about an inch above. Maybe it’s the RTE or an uninflatable portion of the cylinder?

I have explained this logic before in a longer post, I'm sure you can find it by searching.
But here is the short version:

You can actually measure this yourself quite easily.
The implant has 4.5 cm fixed part. This means you have 18-4.5=13.5 cm inflatable part.
If you try to measure how far from your penis tips the implant goes, then you know whether your fixed part of the implant is in your dick. It is for sure not the RTEs, since they are stacked on the fixed part ending up furthest back in your body.
Let us assume your implant tips go 1 cm from your penis tip.
Your inflatable part is 13.5 cm.
13.5+1 = 14.5 cm.
If your inflated size is 14.5 cm, your joint between fixed and inflatable part will be exactly at the base of your penis. If your dick is longer than 14.5 cm inflated, you will have some fixed part in your dick.
If your dick is 16 cm, you will have 16-14.5=1.5 cm fixed part in your dick.

Using the same very logical maths for another extreme hypothetical example would be of someone who has 18 cm implant and 5.5 cm RTEs.
His inflatable length is still same as yours, 18-4.5=13.5.
His fixed part will be the 4.5 cm from the implant itself and 5.5 cm RTEs, for a total of 10 cm fixed part.
If his doc did a good job and made sure his implant goes will into his glans, supporting it properly, there is another 1 cm of dick length on top of his implant.
So his maximum dick length without having his fixed part entering his dick is 13.5+1=14.5 cm (5.7"). Any longer dick than that and that length will be made up of fixed part entering his dick.

These two examples show that just adding RTEs to make the implant longer will not work for a longer dick. It wlll only extend the fixed part in to the dick. The inflatable part of the implant is decided by the implant itself, adding RTEs will never change that and a dick longer than 14.5 cm (5.7") will always have fixed part in the shaft with an 18 cm implant if the cylinders go well into the glans.

Ideally, you do not want any fixed part in your dick.
Actually, ideally you want as less fixed part as possible in the crus as well, but that is another story...

Hope this helps.

Donnie1954 wrote:Unfortunately this issue concerning the use of RTEs in implants will never be resolved. Please be mature enough not to criticize a brother who can't just change what his surgeon did to please you. Mind your own dam business. If you aren't capable of encouragement, please don't post your critical garbage. We need encouragement, not condemnation. Thank you
donnie1954@mail.com

Donnie, I agree that no one should criticise someone for what their surgeon does regardless of the surgeon or the problem. Those are situations that call for compassion and encouragement. Fortunately, I have seen none of that. What gets criticised is when someone actually advocated for a bad procedure or gives misinformation suggesting a bad or controversial procedure is good and should be sought after. This is a public forum with a splash page that says "A place where you can say anything". That means that you don't get to have a monopoly on what opinions can be shared. You don't get to share your opinion and then tell others they cannot present a factual counter-argument. That then becomes just as much our business. We then have the right, even the duty to then express our opinion if we think your statements are misleading others. Then we all get to share our evidence and arguments.

Donnie, there is a huge difference between saying:
1. I have 5 1 cm Rear Tip Extenders. My erection is good and stable and so far I am very happy with how everything works
and
2. Several Rear Tip Extenders result in a superior installation and are the way to go. Thanks to my totally awesome surgeon

Number "1" deserves some respect understanding. Number "2" deserves to be corrected immediately. You do not get to say "2" and then silence all facts and opinions to the contrary. This is a public forum where all sides get to be heard and challenged.

Speaking of being challenged, I have yet to hear you present one argument or one set of objective facts to support any of your claims. You just say it over and over as though that somehow establishes it as fact. I am open to any facts you have but so far there have been none.

The second statement was never made perhaps implied in your thinking. I am only sharing from my own experience with my surgeon's choice. A surgeon choses whether or not to use RTEs but I have never advocated the use or absense of them. Telling someone how stupid they were haveing them installed is childish and counterproductive. I am not referring to you. I am not required to provide documentation to anyone. I am only defending my own experience and my Surgeon's choice in using them when being attacked. I haven't asked anyone to prove anything to me. I really don't care about something I can't change.
donnie1954@mail.com

Donnie1954 wrote:The second statement was never made perhaps implied in your thinking. I am only sharing from my own experience with my surgeon's choice. A surgeon choses whether or not to use RTEs but I have never advocated the use or absense of them. Telling someone how stupid they were haveing them installed is childish and counterproductive. I am not referring to you. I am not required to provide documentation to anyone. I am only defending my own experience and my Surgeon's choice in using them when being attacked. I haven't asked anyone to prove anything to me. I really don't care about something I can't change.
donnie1954@mail.com

Donnie my friend I feel the need to point out a few things for you to consider. This should in no way be construed as an attack. In addition to this forum, I'm on two guitar forums, a sign industry forum, a songwriters forum and a graphic artists forum. On all of those, there is always one guy who repeatedly presents his same story ad infinitum and comes off as the ultimate authority. I'm not saying that is you on franktalk, but you seem to get into these scrapes with some frequency. By now every body is well aware of your pride in your dick. I do feel that you often attempt to do what is known as preemptive editing, that being your blatant statements against anybody contradicting your input. The guy's post immediately above your last one I quoted has some excellent points you should calm down and consider. Nobody has a monopoly on being right. Your presence here has been a blessing to many people, myself included with the phone call I made to you. I'd hate to see you tarnish that reputation with replies such as this one. I hope you can take this in the spirit that was intended.

I apologise Dave. I do tend to get defensive when attacked. I will chill as suggested. Thank you for your thoughtful insite. Enjoy life, love others, and be happy.
Donnie

Mine do not and I would be pissed if they did. It would basically be moving the pivot point where your dick can point down further from your body, create an unsupported connection which I think would cause it to fail, and create a fold or pinch point I would think.

When I pump mine up, I can bend my penis in all directions and feel where the tips and cylinders joint. The mode of flexibility is completely different from the two plus the fact tips do not deflate. Tips were hard to sit on for a while.

I understand tips accommodate fit to penis' that vary more than the few options some companies give in length, particularly Boston with 4 (?) so they do serve a purpose, especially at facilities that have limited inventory. One doctor described to me one time that when they have 6 implants in a row and run out of a certain size, the guys at the end get tip extenders. I hope that is a rarity just from the reduced expandable length.

I am no doctor. I am no engineer. I am no implant salesperson. I am a man who has a dick and have had 2 implants. Everyone may not agree but I can say my dick, my implant, and I all agree on this point. Who has ever heard of a committee who could agree on anything? Cheers.

Self reply to my comment above. Someone had photos one time of tip extenders that had split where they snap over the cylinder end and had to be replaced. Someone else had posted a picture one time of a tip extender that had come off the cylinder. Xray showed the 2 at differing angles and the cylinder and tip laying separate on the cloth at surgery after the surgeon fished it out. My opinion, coming off would be harder to happen in a properly fitted implant.