Almost 3 weeks after surgery - advice on cycling

[Diego83]

Hi everyone, I am almost 3 weeks after my surgery, I started pedaling for 6 days. At this moment the bruises are almost gone, while I pump I feel little pain, while when I am inflated to the maximum I start to feel a lot of pain on the left side of my glans until it goes down after the scrotum almost to my anus, I wanted to understand if this is normal (I'm still at the beginning right?) The doctor also told me to move the penis when I am inflated but this also hurts a lot, I wanted to understand if I have to force these movements even if it hurts? and that I have to stand upright for 30 minutes and then deflate ... Yesterday I measured myself for the first time and I am 14cm (I was 16cm) I lost 2cm for now which is not a few ... but I read on a forum here that when the pump becomes hard and they are at their maximum if you wait a few minutes you could swell up again… do you have any advice on this? I simply stopped until yesterday when it didn't swell anymore. Of all this the most painful part is when I have to press the deflate button (it seems the pulp is turning counterclockwise and I find it difficult to find the button) but it is when I have to press that it really hurts I feel like nerves inside of the scrotum when I press and it's hard. I feel that the pump is resting inclined in the scrotum and the cables do not fall straight but make a curve that bump into the skin and it hurts a little…. what do you think ? suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[stephen54]

Hi everyone, I am almost 3 weeks after my surgery, I started pedaling for 6 days. At this moment the bruises are almost gone, while I pump I feel little pain, while when I am inflated to the maximum I start to feel a lot of pain on the left side of my glans until it goes down after the scrotum almost to my anus, I wanted to understand if this is normal (I'm still at the beginning right?) The doctor also told me to move the penis when I am inflated but this also hurts a lot, I wanted to understand if I have to force these movements even if it hurts? and that I have to stand upright for 30 minutes and then deflate ... Yesterday I measured myself for the first time and I am 14cm (I was 16cm) I lost 2cm for now which is not a few ... but I read on a forum here that when the pump becomes hard and they are at their maximum if you wait a few minutes you could swell up again… do you have any advice on this? I simply stopped until yesterday when it didn't swell anymore. Of all this the most painful part is when I have to press the deflate button (it seems the pulp is turning counterclockwise and I find it difficult to find the button) but it is when I have to press that it really hurts I feel like nerves inside of the scrotum when I press and it's hard. I feel that the pump is resting inclined in the scrotum and the cables do not fall straight but make a curve that bump into the skin and it hurts a little…. what do you think ? suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I'm sure you're about to receive a bunch of notes here advising you to have some perspective because it's only week 3, and that's going to be extremely good (but, I understand, difficult to follow) advice. But I urge you to follow it as best you're able and just patiently, methodically move forward in these early weeks, and to go easy on yourself with the new shit and the unknowns.

Even with the best surgeon, device, and process, your dick and scrotum have endured trauma and there is a slowly healing chaos down there.

Having said that - and I can only share my experience - there is discomfort and then there is frank pain. Important to understand and separate the two. Discomfort with implantation is a given. You're going to move a certain way, touch somewhere, and you're going to have dull, odd aches for a little while here. Normal and to be expected. Frank pain, however? It's worth report to your doc and discussing. When are you due back for a live office visit for a check-in? Be forthcoming and blunt about what you're experiencing.

The deflate thing - I entirely understand you there. I've described elsewhere here how mine was absolutely crazy difficult for me to get accustomed to. My deflate button orientation was not what I expected and not exactly how it was intended to hang in my sac, and I found it extremely difficult to get acclimated to pressing the button sufficiently to engage the deflate process. I was fishing around and felt the tubing also, and was very mindful to not be applying blunt force pressure to the tubing, but to gently work my fingers past the tubing to the button. And it was absolutely uncomfortable for a few weeks until the edema subsided. I ended up in a very rushed, very urgent visit to my surgeon the fist time I inflated at home on my own and panicked like a lunatic when I couldn't navigate the deflate.

But then over the course of a few weeks it was really surprising how, with the swelling down, it became easier and easier to navigate and discern what was hanging where and how to operate everything comfortably.

Stay the course, but ask your doc the questions.

[Txagq8]

ok Diego:

It sounds like you are doing the right things and actually are way ahead of the game.

Three weeks after surgery I was about 2 inches….not two centimeters…..short of my pre-surgical length. And it all came back to within 1/8”.

Keep doing what you’re doing, but be a little bit patient. You’ve still got some healing to do. Any surgery is an assault on the body and it doesn’t repair itself overnight.

[newbie443]

I think all this is normal but you need to ask your doctor how hard to push this. My cylinders go almost to my anus so that pain is the cylinder tips in your crus. You need to cycle every day. But you might want to reduce the time if you have pain. The protocol in my AMS 700 user guide had inflating to max and immediately deflating for the first few days then increasing the time left inflated every few days. As far as scrotum pain I have this with inflation if I am not in the correct area of the scrotum. There are painful places and you will learn to move the scrotal skin to places it dose not hurt as bad. Then over time that area will toughen so that there is no pain at all. This will be true of deflate button also. Right now you still have swelling and are weeks away from being fully healed. But cycling is important to get those 2cm back. So do as much as you can to follow your doctors instructions. I did long pump adding cycling and had increases out past a year. But I waited until I was fully headed. And you are weeks away from that and having trouble with just your regular cycling protocol. Contact your doctor for advice on your pain and how hard to push things now and ask about if and when you can start the pump adding inflations. We are different and your doctor has seen inside you and will be able to advise you better than someone else who is most likely different.

Good luck with this.

[Diego83]

Hi everyone, I am almost 3 weeks after my surgery, I started pedaling for 6 days. At this moment the bruises are almost gone, while I pump I feel little pain, while when I am inflated to the maximum I start to feel a lot of pain on the left side of my glans until it goes down after the scrotum almost to my anus, I wanted to understand if this is normal (I'm still at the beginning right?) The doctor also told me to move the penis when I am inflated but this also hurts a lot, I wanted to understand if I have to force these movements even if it hurts? and that I have to stand upright for 30 minutes and then deflate ... Yesterday I measured myself for the first time and I am 14cm (I was 16cm) I lost 2cm for now which is not a few ... but I read on a forum here that when the pump becomes hard and they are at their maximum if you wait a few minutes you could swell up again… do you have any advice on this? I simply stopped until yesterday when it didn't swell anymore. Of all this the most painful part is when I have to press the deflate button (it seems the pulp is turning counterclockwise and I find it difficult to find the button) but it is when I have to press that it really hurts I feel like nerves inside of the scrotum when I press and it's hard. I feel that the pump is resting inclined in the scrotum and the cables do not fall straight but make a curve that bump into the skin and it hurts a little…. what do you think ? suggestions are greatly appreciated.

I'm sure you're about to receive a bunch of notes here advising you to have some perspective because it's only week 3, and that's going to be extremely good (but, I understand, difficult to follow) advice. But I urge you to follow it as best you're able and just patiently, methodically move forward in these early weeks, and to go easy on yourself with the new shit and the unknowns.

Even with the best surgeon, device, and process, your dick and scrotum have endured trauma and there is a slowly healing chaos down there.

Having said that - and I can only share my experience - there is discomfort and then there is frank pain. Important to understand and separate the two. Discomfort with implantation is a given. You're going to move a certain way, touch somewhere, and you're going to have dull, odd aches for a little while here. Normal and to be expected. Frank pain, however? It's worth report to your doc and discussing. When are you due back for a live office visit for a check-in? Be forthcoming and blunt about what you're experiencing.

The deflate thing - I entirely understand you there. I've described elsewhere here how mine was absolutely crazy difficult for me to get accustomed to. My deflate button orientation was not what I expected and not exactly how it was intended to hang in my sac, and I found it extremely difficult to get acclimated to pressing the button sufficiently to engage the deflate process. I was fishing around and felt the tubing also, and was very mindful to not be applying blunt force pressure to the tubing, but to gently work my fingers past the tubing to the button. And it was absolutely uncomfortable for a few weeks until the edema subsided. I ended up in a very rushed, very urgent visit to my surgeon the fist time I inflated at home on my own and panicked like a lunatic when I couldn't navigate the deflate.

But then over the course of a few weeks it was really surprising how, with the swelling down, it became easier and easier to navigate and discern what was hanging where and how to operate everything comfortably.

Stay the course, but ask your doc the questions.

Thanks for your advice. I have an online visit next week with him, I will talk to him about these discomforts ... (even if they are topics that I have already discussed with him and he told me that everything is ok) position of the tubes and the top of the pump, I really hope it settles ... also because now the position of my balls is really strange ... (I have one ball in front, behind I have the pump and behind the pump I have the other ball. I hope this resolves over time.

[Diego83]

ok Diego:

It sounds like you are doing the right things and actually are way ahead of the game.

Three weeks after surgery I was about 2 inches….not two centimeters…..short of my pre-surgical length. And it all came back to within 1/8”.

Keep doing what you’re doing, but be a little bit patient. You’ve still got some healing to do. Any surgery is an assault on the body and it doesn’t repair itself overnight.

thank you for your advice .. honestly, the size was the least of my problems in this case, but I didn't think I was losing 2cm but your words help me ... I'll ask the surgeon about this
but you only recovered by pedaling right?

[Diego83]

I think all this is normal but you need to ask your doctor how hard to push this. My cylinders go almost to my anus so that pain is the cylinder tips in your crus. You need to cycle every day. But you might want to reduce the time if you have pain. The protocol in my AMS 700 user guide had inflating to max and immediately deflating for the first few days then increasing the time left inflated every few days. As far as scrotum pain I have this with inflation if I am not in the correct area of the scrotum. There are painful places and you will learn to move the scrotal skin to places it dose not hurt as bad. Then over time that area will toughen so that there is no pain at all. This will be true of deflate button also. Right now you still have swelling and are weeks away from being fully healed. But cycling is important to get those 2cm back. So do as much as you can to follow your doctors instructions. I did long pump adding cycling and had increases out past a year. But I waited until I was fully headed. And you are weeks away from that and having trouble with just your regular cycling protocol. Contact your doctor for advice on your pain and how hard to push things now and ask about if and when you can start the pump adding inflations. We are different and your doctor has seen inside you and will be able to advise you better than someone else who is most likely different.

Good luck with this.

Thanks for your advice, next week I have an online visit and I will tell him all these things. I have tried several times to move the position of the pump or tubes in the scrotum which are the thing that cause me the most pain but they always return as before ... I don't know if this can be useful over time

[crazyjoe]

Agree with following your doc's directive -- mine said starting cycling immediately -- that scarring starts on your way to the recovery room -- and that I could have sex in 3 weeks and this schedule worked for me with no pain whatsoever -- but that is the most aggressive schedule I have heard on FT.