Cycling Challenges After AMS 700 Penile Implant Looking for DMV Support

[LGXDownunder]

Reason for Implant: I had a prostatectomy due to a family history of prostate cancer. After weighing the options, this felt like the best decision for me long-term.

Sounds like a wise decision, but I imagine a very difficult one. I had to have a radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer and only found out recently that at least one relative had died from the disease. Unfortunately previous generations didn't discuss such things, but it might have been helpful if the information was shared. I'm just curious - How long did you put up with ED before deciding on an implant?

[Kodixx]

Newlyimplantedbro, welcome to the bionic brotherhood ! I echo the good advice above, and there's a wealth of tips, recommendations and words of wisdom -- never alone in this forum

- Chuck

Hey everyone, I recently received an AMS 700 penile implant, and while I'm thankful to be on this path toward restored function and confidence, I’m learning that cycling is proving to be quite a task, both physically and emotionally. I'm reaching out to see if anyone in the Washington, DC (DMV) area has been through this experience or has any tips, support group recommendations, or even just words of wisdom. I’ve got so many questions, and sometimes it helps just to know you’re not alone. If you’re open to connecting or sharing resources, I’d greatly appreciate it.

[SWorks17]

Thanks so much for the warm welcome, appreciate the support and encouragement from you all. It really does help to know I’m not alone in this.

Here’s a bit more about me:
Age: 48
Surgery Date: 6 weeks post-op
Reason for Implant: I had a prostatectomy due to a family history of prostate cancer. After weighing the options, this felt like the best decision for me long-term.
As for my implant details:

Model: AMS 700 CX (Controlled Expansion)
Pump: Momentary Squeeze (MS)
Cylinder Length: 24 cm
Rear Tip Extenders (RTEs): 2 cm on the right side only
Total Length: 26 cm on the right, 24 cm on the left

Still getting the hang of cycling and deflating can be a challenge some days, but I'm treating it like part of my recovery job. Confidence is growing little by little, and it helps to hear from others who’ve made it to the other side of this. Grateful to be part of the brotherhood — looking forward to learning more from you all.

Thanks for the info Newly,
I'm sorry about making the big decision about removing your prostrate due to family history. You didn't say when you had that surgery for the removal of your prostrate. I can't help in that area, I still have mine but I did have a prostrate procedure to reduce the size of my benign enlarged prostrate with the Boston Scientific Rezum procedure which injects small amounts of steam into the prostrate to kill tissue and shrink the prostrate.

On cycling, you're at 6 weeks and I could barely get in 10 pumps when the nurse deflated me and gave me instructions how to deflate and pump. I still had pain and numbness in my new bionic dick at that point.

It just takes some time to get the cycling going and trying to get in enough pumps to stretch out the tissue and help get back your original erection length.

I had to find a way to squeeze the pump the best way. I looked at several videos made by Boston Scientific where they would show different methods. The best one for me that I use is, I use the knuckle of my right index finger and the middle of my right thumb to squeeze the pump which uses your forearm muscles rather than your finger muscles to squeeze.

It still took time to strengthen up the forearm muscle so that I could get in good quality wall to wall pumps.

You've got a lot of implant to get to the max inflation, so just pump as much as you can. My docs cycling protocol was pump twice a day to the max that I could pump in for 20 minutes in the shower, for a total of 40 minutes each day. After showering I would shave with it pumped up.

I would start having pain in my glans toward the end of 20 minutes of inflation and that took many months to get where I could stay pumped up to the max for more than an hour.

I also did extra cycling in a large garden tub, I would fill it with very warm water to help with the pain. I would pump up to 50 to 70 percent and bend my dick in all directions for 5 minutes and then I would pump it up to the max and see how long I could handle max inflation without crying uncle.

I know you'll have more questions,
Follow your doctors cycling protocol and do extra if you can
Hang in there!
SWorks

[Newlyimplantedbro]

Reason for Implant: I had a prostatectomy due to a family history of prostate cancer. After weighing the options, this felt like the best decision for me long-term.

Sounds like a wise decision, but I imagine a very difficult one. I had to have a radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer and only found out recently that at least one relative had died from the disease. Unfortunately previous generations didn't discuss such things, but it might have been helpful if the information was shared. I'm just curious - How long did you put up with ED before deciding on an implant?

What I initially wrote didn’t come across the way I intended, so I wanted to clarify. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022, and given my family history with the disease, I elected to have a radical prostatectomy that same year, in April. After my surgery I tried penile injections for about 2.5 years and did experience some success. Ultimately, though, I decided to move forward with the implant in April 2025. It definitely wasn’t an easy decision, but it felt like the right one for my quality of life. I can relate to what you shared—earlier generations in my family didn’t talk about prostate issues either.

[SWorks17]

Reason for Implant: I had a prostatectomy due to a family history of prostate cancer. After weighing the options, this felt like the best decision for me long-term.

Sounds like a wise decision, but I imagine a very difficult one. I had to have a radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer and only found out recently that at least one relative had died from the disease. Unfortunately previous generations didn't discuss such things, but it might have been helpful if the information was shared. I'm just curious - How long did you put up with ED before deciding on an implant?

What I initially wrote didn’t come across the way I intended, so I wanted to clarify. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022, and given my family history with the disease, I elected to have a radical prostatectomy that same year, in April. After my surgery I tried penile injections for about 2.5 years and did experience some success. Ultimately, though, I decided to move forward with the implant in April 2025. It definitely wasn’t an easy decision, but it felt like the right one for my quality of life. I can relate to what you shared—earlier generations in my family didn’t talk about prostate issues either.

Newly, thanks for clearing that up about your prostrate removal. I know I probably would have done the same thing, if I had a family history of bad outcomes with prostrate cancer.
I was able skip injections and go straight to the implant.
I hope that the cycling of your implant gets better; keep asking questions, so we can help when we can.

SWorks

[LGXDownunder]

Reason for Implant: I had a prostatectomy due to a family history of prostate cancer. After weighing the options, this felt like the best decision for me long-term.

Sounds like a wise decision, but I imagine a very difficult one. I had to have a radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer and only found out recently that at least one relative had died from the disease. Unfortunately previous generations didn't discuss such things, but it might have been helpful if the information was shared. I'm just curious - How long did you put up with ED before deciding on an implant?

What I initially wrote didn’t come across the way I intended, so I wanted to clarify. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022, and given my family history with the disease, I elected to have a radical prostatectomy that same year, in April. After my surgery I tried penile injections for about 2.5 years and did experience some success. Ultimately, though, I decided to move forward with the implant in April 2025. It definitely wasn’t an easy decision, but it felt like the right one for my quality of life. I can relate to what you shared—earlier generations in my family didn’t talk about prostate issues either.

I hear you, thanks for sharing and clarifying. I'm maybe only a month or so ahead of you and have been on a similar path. Looks we had our surgeries around the same time, I had my radical prostatectomy in March 2022 and implant in March 2025. Pills didn't work so eventually I also tried Trimix penile injections, but only had around 6 months of success before they became unreliable, then stopped working altogether due to fibrosis/scarring. I then commenced focal shockwave therapy, which did nothing. After that nothing but frustrating VED use until my implant - best decision ever. Hang in there, I'm sure you'll enjoy yours once you get used to it. As SWorks said please keep asking questions as you go, lots of guys here have been on the same journey.