Residual erectile capacity after implant?

[Toby799]

Hi everyone, just a quick question. I am due to have an implant in the UK in just under a week. I have some level of function but quite floppy and no good for sex unless I use injections and I really don't like the lack of spontaneity and erection that remains somewhat hard (and difficult to conceal) for hours after- issues I've come up against with the injections.

So I'm wondering if the blood flow I've got at the moment will still be there and augmenting the implant after the op or does the operation destroy all the tissues and mean that there is no natural blood flow/engorgement at all? Or is it dependent upon the surgical technique? Juts feeling quite nervous and wondering if I'd be better off sticking to the injections!

[Waynetho]

Never rely on having any natural erection left after implantation. Some men report that they retained some of their tumescence after implantation but considering the vigorous dilation required by the surgeon to make room for the implant, that is never guaranteed or even suggested as possible. My surgeon told me it was impossible for me to have any degree of natural erection or tumescence because he totally destroyed my erectile tissues in my corpora. That's not the case but it's never to be expected.

[Lost Sheep]

Look up "Tissue-Sparing Technique"

Here is an abstract. The full article is somewhere on the internet as wll.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20092840/

[barrylandon]

My surgeon said he pushed my penile tissue to the sides to make room for the implant, thus theoretically sparing the nerves in the tissues. However, despite this tissue-sparing procedure, my penile shift had virtually no sensitivity for 10 months and it wasn't until one month after that I had a significant enough return to sensitivity to orgasm and ejaculate regularly.

[dhiker99]

I’m not going to get into the matter of residual tumescence but I do want to be clear on this:
Nerve damage and loss or delay of orgasm should not occur if your surgeon has done his job well. I was able to have intercourse (although gently) to orgasm in less than 3 weeks after surgery. Now that I’m 4 weeks out and can be fully hard orgasms feel more powerful than they’ve ever been in my entire life