Cycling question with Titan

[Stewy78]

Hi guys, i has my revision surgery with Dr.Eid 20 days ago. I still have some pain and swelling in the scrotum and i started daily cycling just a few days ago.
I have a 24cm titan implant and I'm able to give about 35 pump squeeze (maybe not full squeeze) before feeling pain in the tips and shaft. At this level the penis has a good erection, but after some minutes, especially if I try to masturbate or i touch my penis, i feel less pain and it looks like the rigidity is then decreased since I'm then able to bend the penis a little bit. So i can give other few pumps, pain again and if I masturbate i notice again a little rigidity decrease and i can pump again.
Anyone had similar experience? What do you think it could be?

[Vagabond127]

Yes it happened to me.

What I think is happening is that the cylinders are softening and stretching. You will reach a point where the rigidity will stay. This should occur in a matter of minutes. Keep pumping for a few minutes and see what happens. Just my experience.

Best of luck to full recovery.

[hope794]

Keep us updated Steve!!!

[vajim1]

I think it is your penis stretching, does this to me and that is a good thing. Please keep us posted with results and share pix if you care too.

[Lost Sheep]

Hi guys, i has my revision surgery with Dr.Eid 20 days ago. I still have some pain and swelling in the scrotum and i started daily cycling just a few days ago.
I have a 24cm titan implant and I'm able to give about 35 pump squeeze (maybe not full squeeze) before feeling pain in the tips and shaft. At this level the penis has a good erection, but after some minutes, especially if I try to masturbate or i touch my penis, i feel less pain and it looks like the rigidity is then decreased since I'm then able to bend the penis a little bit. So i can give other few pumps, pain again and if I masturbate i notice again a little rigidity decrease and i can pump again.
Anyone had similar experience? What do you think it could be?

As the other posters who have responded so far, it could very well be your implant stretching out your tissues and the implant actually softening and stretching and letting you pump in more fluid. After all, 20 days is not that long and the material of which the Titan is made does soften and stretch over time. Months. And the first couple of weeks will be the most dramatic and slowing after that.

Tell us, please, does your girth (especially) and length increase with each cycle of additional pumping? If so, you have confirmation. The increase will be very small (linear dimensions you measure will be small compared to the volume change).

But, having said that, the purely hydraulic description you gave COULD be leakage back into the reservoir. 1) You pump up to maximum pressure - cannot squeeze any more into the implant. 2) fluid backflows into the reservoir, letting some of the rigidity and discomfort decrease. 3) You pump up to maximum again 4) the cycle repeats.

Two explanations come to mind. 1) The backflow could be a pressure relief valve set at a lower pressure than you are pumping to. 2) Or, more likely, the valve the prevents backflow is not seating fully. In the latter case, this will cure itself. I would expect that as time goes on the valve will seat in (the parts mate up more closely) and your implant will stay fully pumped as it should.

A call to the Coloplast Patient Liaison to describe what you are seeing should give you more assurance.

[Stewy78]

Thank for your replies guys. I just cycled it again and that same thing happened but I noticed an additional detail. Every time I give more pumps it seems to loose rigidity, but less than the previous pumps. So if I give more pumps in four steps, at the fourth step it seems to still loose something but less than the first or second step. Unfortunately I'm still unable to fully inflate it. I feel that the pump is not yet hard and that i can squeeze it more, but pain on tips and shaft is too much.
I also tried to measure it on each step and it seems there is just one or two millimeters of difference between the first step of the additional pumps and the last one.

[Lost Sheep]

Thank for your replies guys. I just cycled it again and that same thing happened but I noticed an additional detail. Every time I give more pumps it seems to loose rigidity, but less than the previous pumps. So if I give more pumps in four steps, at the fourth step it seems to still loose something but less than the first or second step. Unfortunately I'm still unable to fully inflate it. I feel that the pump is not yet hard and that i can squeeze it more, but pain on tips and shaft is too much.
I also tried to measure it on each step and it seems there is just one or two millimeters of difference between the first step of the additional pumps and the last one.

It sound to me that your tunica is stretching a little bit more each time you inflate. This, I think, is good news for your size.

I don't quite understand "Unfortunately I'm still unable to fully inflate it." You stated that you inflated to "a good erection" (in your original post) but also had pain in the tips and the shaft. It seems to me that your tunica is getting fully inflated by the implant to a full erection sufficient for penetrative sex but then your erection loosens (due to stretching of your tunica). Ultimately, your tunica will reach its limit and not stretch out any more and you will see this post-inflation loosening will no longer occur. Either that or your implant will reach its limit of stretching and no longer loosen. (as long as you don't run out of fluid).

Dr. Eid once wrote to me that the Coloplast Titan is "tunica dependent" and it seems to me that he meant that the Titan expands to the limit of the tunica (in much the same way your own corpus cavernosum tissues do). So, you just have a tunica that is still recovering lost size. Does that make sense to you and is it in concert with your pre-implant, pre-E.D. measurements?

I do hope Merrix spots this thread and weighs in. He has a Titan and is VERY knowledgeable. I have first-hand experience only with my own AMS device.

[Agfa13]

At this level the penis has a good erection, but after some minutes, especially if I try to masturbate or i touch my penis, i feel less pain and it looks like the rigidity is then decreased since I'm then able to bend the penis a little bit. So i can give other few pumps, pain again and if I masturbate i notice again a little rigidity decrease and i can pump again.
Anyone had similar experience? What do you think it could be?

I have had this experience, and I am glad I found this thread, I will do my usual 15 to 20 pumps get the pain of stretching, but then start to go, what I thought was, soft. NOW that I know what is happening, I am relieved. I have not gained much, but you better believe pumping is at the top of the list again!

[Stewy78]

Thank for your replies guys. I just cycled it again and that same thing happened but I noticed an additional detail. Every time I give more pumps it seems to loose rigidity, but less than the previous pumps. So if I give more pumps in four steps, at the fourth step it seems to still loose something but less than the first or second step. Unfortunately I'm still unable to fully inflate it. I feel that the pump is not yet hard and that i can squeeze it more, but pain on tips and shaft is too much.
I also tried to measure it on each step and it seems there is just one or two millimeters of difference between the first step of the additional pumps and the last one.

It sound to me that your tunica is stretching a little bit more each time you inflate. This, I think, is good news for your size.

I don't quite understand "Unfortunately I'm still unable to fully inflate it." You stated that you inflated to "a good erection" (in your original post) but also had pain in the tips and the shaft. It seems to me that your tunica is getting fully inflated by the implant to a full erection sufficient for penetrative sex but then your erection loosens (due to stretching of your tunica). Ultimately, your tunica will reach its limit and not stretch out any more and you will see this post-inflation loosening will no longer occur. Either that or your implant will reach its limit of stretching and no longer loosen. (as long as you don't run out of fluid).

Dr. Eid once wrote to me that the Coloplast Titan is "tunica dependent" and it seems to me that he meant that the Titan expands to the limit of the tunica (in much the same way your own corpus cavernosum tissues do). So, you just have a tunica that is still recovering lost size. Does that make sense to you and is it in concert with your pre-implant, pre-E.D. measurements?

I do hope Merrix spots this thread and weighs in. He has a Titan and is VERY knowledgeable. I have first-hand experience only with my own AMS device.

Thanks LostSheep. With not fully I mean that I know that there is still more saline solution to pump in, but I'm unable to do so for the pain. I can reach a good erection but I'm sure that it's possible to make it harder. I have this sensation because I remember that with my previous ams implant i reached a point where pump become super hard and no more solution to pump in. And i felt it a bit harder ( an almost unnatural hardness). I feel I'm unable to reach that point yet with titan.

[Minnesota]

If you're asking specifically about the pain, IMO and experience, you're probably not fully healed yet. I have found that in both of my implants that there was still some type of discomfort at week # 4, 5, and 6 post surgery. My discomfort was usually solved with time. S

That said, since you're able to be very active with it now, I'd say you're doing great!