Penuma implant for penile enlargement?

[Flavio]

[...] This is just my story. I'm sure there are other men who have had similar procedures done without the complications I experienced.

Thank you for sharing your story, it is very helpful and informative.

On the Penuma website, it is said that the patient has to be circumcised to do this procedure. Any idea why?

[Flavio]

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Skin is very stretchy. Far stretchier than most of the other tissues in the penis, so it is the least to be concerned about. The urethra, nerve bundle, tunica albuginea etc. take longer time to grow larger in dimension.

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Thank you for your reply, Lost Sheep.

That is why comparing penile enlargement to breast augmentation seems so absurd to me. No, it's definitely not the same thing. The penis is an extremely complex and sensitive organ, any mistake could have permanent consequences.

[KenJ1947]

[But if the skin of the penis is limited, doesn't this mean that any penile enlargement surgery is too risky or impossible?]
The answer to your question is yes...and no.
I had multiple penile enhancement surgeries about 20 years ago. Lengthening was done by cutting the suspensory ligament. This doesn't make the penis longer but it allows 1-2" of "buried" penile shaft to emerge from the body cavity.
To enhance girth, the surgeon degloved my penis and grafted several layers of Alloderm around the shaft, which increased my girth by more than 1". HOWEVER, because of the Alloderm, my penile tissue became seriously necrotic and most of the skin on my shaft sloughed off. Amputation was a possibility.
Fortunately for me, surgeons at the Grossman Burn Center in California were able to successfully harvest skin from my scrotum and graft it over my penile shaft. I regained function but with some obvious cosmetic consequences and compromised sensitivity.
This is just my story. I'm sure there are other men who have had similar procedures done without the complications I experienced.

That's really a bummer of an experience, Barry. Would cosmetic surgery be a possibility, especially if you could win a lawsuit?

[barrylandon]

Facing the very real possibility of amputation, I was just delighted that option was not employed and to regain function. The cosmetic impact was a small price to pay and it's not horribly disfigured. Oh, and yes, there was a lawsuit that settled out of court in my favor.

[Waynetho]

Facing the very real possibility of amputation, I was just delighted that option was not employed and to regain function. The cosmetic impact was a small price to pay and it's not horribly disfigured. Oh, and yes, there was a lawsuit that settled out of court in my favor.

Barry, there was a member here until recently who had a similar surgical "hail-mary" to yours, using scrotal tissues to rebuild his penis. He had multiple botched/failed circumcisions and attempted repairs and finally got a plastic surgeon and a urologist to reskin his penis completely using scrotal skin but in the process, he looks like he has no glans. They stitched the skin directly to the corona of his glans and it looks sort of like a tube with a flat end and his urethal opening on the end. I went looking for his old photos but they've apparently been expunged even though his posts are still here (Larry10625 was his name). As I recall he posted his before and after photo combination quite some time ago (2017 or maybe earlier) which showed his before as an "INNIE" with no discernable penis visible. After reconstruction and a penile implant, he has a working penis albeit different looking.

[Gt1956]

I've seen those pictures within the last few months. I wonder if his photo hosting site dropped them?

[Waynetho]

Facing the very real possibility of amputation, I was just delighted that option was not employed and to regain function. The cosmetic impact was a small price to pay and it's not horribly disfigured. Oh, and yes, there was a lawsuit that settled out of court in my favor.

Barry, there was a member here until recently who had a similar surgical "hail-mary" to yours, using scrotal tissues to rebuild his penis. He had multiple botched/failed circumcisions and attempted repairs and finally got a plastic surgeon and a urologist to reskin his penis completely using scrotal skin but in the process, he looks like he has no glans. They stitched the skin directly to the corona of his glans and it looks sort of like a tube with a flat end and his urethal opening on the end. I went looking for his old photos but they've apparently been expunged even though his posts are still here (Larry10625 was his name). As I recall he posted his before and after photo combination quite some time ago (2017 or maybe earlier) which showed his before as an "INNIE" with no discernable penis visible. After reconstruction and a penile implant, he has a working penis albeit different looking.

I found another source for Larry10625's photo to which I was referring. I'm sure he wouldn't care that I post it since he had it up previously.

Larry10625 - before & after. Multiple botched circumcision and repair operations, scrotal tissue transplant (plastic surgery) and IPP are responsible for "AFTER" photo.

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[barrylandon]

Aside from having scrotal skin used in our reconstructive surgeries, the situation of Larry10625 and myself are totally different. For one, my transplanted scrotal skin was only placed on my penile shaft, under the glans. This other gentleman had a micro penis prior to surgery. Before implantation, I was a grower, not a shower so my flaccid penis was about 3-1/2" and my erect penis with engorged glans reached 6-1/4". With daily 1 hour cycling since week 4, now that I'm nearly 7 months post-op my flaccid hangs about 5 inches and 6-1/2" fully pumped.