More Important than the Implant

[ElbowRoom]

After my years of having a Coloplast Titan a bigger threat has affected the ability to use it, my health status. It's my own damn fault for abusing my body for so many years, but now that it's too late other health issues have impacted the use of my implant.

I can still use my implant but my lack of conditioning, lung issues, and medication use have severely limited me. I knew better being a retired health professional, but never acted on what I should have been doing.

So more important that getting an implant is the ability to use it. If your body gives out it doesn't matter how rock hard you can keep your penis. Do all the things to help keep you healthy, exercise, limit tobacco and alcohol, don't use street drugs, get annual physicals and preventative immunizations. Don't be a me. And I'm stepping off the soapbox now.

So sorry for you with your health issues. I hope things improve for you, just getting out and walking even a short distance daily can have a great positive benefit.

We all want to live a long and healthy life, but life is to be lived and nobody's perfect. I try to exercise and do the right things, but I still love my ice cream! In my teens and early 20s I smoked and used drugs, so I understand how easy it can be to let inertia take you down an unhealthy path.

It's never too late to try to turn things around, at least somewhat. Stay positive and do what you can when you can.

[Old Guy]

Thanks everyone for your replies and insights. I was healthy all my life and had a very active profession. A truck wreck when I was in my 30's started a lifetime of issues there. Went to college after that and my profession had me teaching exercises and I would do them with my patients.
Getting the implant at 68 was my first surgery as an adult. Recovery was tough and set me on my butt for 6 months as I lost a lot of energy. It was the pandemic so going anywhere was not a good option, but once summer came I did get back to camping and taking care of the yard. Then my years of smoking hit, short of breath with any heavy exertion. Between the lack of breath and bad back any exercise either caused me pain then, or later. Lift anything heavy and hours later my back would be screaming at me. Now days can't recall how many needles and procedures I've gone through to lessen that back pain. Good thing my lovely wife will run the massager around my back any time I ask. Then my smoking habit hits again as I get bladder cancer. That happened about 5 months after I finally quit smoking. Treatment for that meant a lot of catheters inserted, a check every 3 months where the doc runs a camera up my urethra into the bladder. If that wasn't enough in Feb 23 I caught COVID, had pneumonia a month later. The heavy round of steroids they had me take caused sleep apnea, and still dealing with that. Now I'm the one saying I'm too tired to have sex. What a life!
As far as sex, yes we have found ways around that work. Most often it's the X position in bed. She does a lot of the work pulling on my backside with her legs. When her knee feels fine the doggy position works ok until I wear out. We also have a sex swing we use where I can rock her back and forth on me while I'm standing there. So, no giving in yet, just adapting the way of doing it. But it makes you want a do-over. But life just ain't that simple. Hopefully hearing my battles will keep one person moving in the right direction.