ElbowRoom's Implant Experience Journal

[Jgoody]

Good luck today. You're definitely as prepared & informed as one can be. Stay positive as best you can & you'll be fine. Look forward to hearing of your success

[ballhog47]

good luck! ice ice ice

[staphylococcusecoli]

ICE ICE ICE ICE and ICE. Wish you well!

[LGXDownunder]

Best wishes ElbowRoom, you may well have been implanted and recovering by now.
I've been following your journey for some time and I know you have done the due diligence very thoroughly.
I think that will help you enormously through the recovery process and I'm sure you can look forward to a great outcome.
Be patient and be kind to yourself as you go through it .

[ElbowRoom]

Sorry to keep you all hanging. Surgery went well! I ended up with a 28cm Titan with Classic pump. I have mixed feelings, it’s nice to get such a big implant, but it means RTEs are in my future for any revisions. Oh well, nothing is perfect!

The facility Hakky uses is the modern outpatient surgical center at Northside hospital in Lawrenceville, just outside of Atlanta. It’s a very nice facility.

hakky went over everything we had already decided to confirm. He asked me if the implant was right on the edge if he should upsize or stay a little smaller. I said “upsize of course”. He did say that could lead to shaft pain on aggressive inflation for the first three months, but I’m okay with that. Hakky was thorough but fast, he was obviously super busy on a surgery day and I get that.

The nurses were top-notch, very friendly and joking with me. I appreciate that and don’t really like when healthcare providers treat you like a piece of meat or a lab frog they are dissecting.

Once I was positioned they turned on the juice, a little push at first relax me, then they started asking me questions and I knew they were putting me under and gauging my level of sedation. That didn’t last long and I was out. What UFO abductees call “missing time”.

I woke and could feel the dressings on my groin and I was pretty groggy for a few, but quickly woke up. I could feel my dick felt heavier, even besides the dressings, but kinda just normal too. Pretty numb from the nerve blocks (and still is 6 hrs later. Hakky came by and talked to me. The highlights:

* The surgery took 15min longer than usual, as he found some scarring/fibrosis that hadn’t shown on the doppler, that needed to be removed during dilation of the corpora. No problem there and he got it done.

* He said I’m a “true” 28cm, didn’t really need upsizing. Not sure if he was being serious, but he said I was the first true 28cm implant he’s needed to do on a Caucasian. Maybe he says that to all the girls, but it made me feel good.

* He left me about 30% inflated, it will stay that way until the first follow-up and cycling in one week. Even at 30% it feels kinda stiff.

* He had to do a version of a hernia repair stitch to secure the reservoir. I’m pretty slender and the space of Retzius is pretty small on me. The reservoir kept wanting to slide up and become visible under the skin, so he secured it. I appreciate the extra effort to make it look better.

* The reservoir was slightly overfilled, 5ml, to make sure there was plenty of fluid for full inflation.

So I made it home and everything seems to be going well. No reach pain yet, but there are the beginnings of some twinges in the head of my penis, and I *think* I can feel the reservoir when move enough to engage my lower ab muscles. The biggest issue is urination, I have been peeing a lot and it kind of feels like I always have to pee. Sometimes a little drop of urine will just ooze out. I assume it’s because the tight wrap is compressing things and not letting me fully empty. The wrap comes off tomorrow afternoon and that will show me more.

Also if I flex my pelvic floor muscles, things feel a little different. Like the muscles are engage around the implant instead of pushing blood through structures. Just different and I’ll get used to it.

I have some pics but I’m having trouble getting my iPad to shrink the images enough for the forum to accept, so I’ll post them as soon as I figure that out.

Cheers!

[UpNorth]

Awesome
Ice and sleep.

[ColoplastTitanUpOver]

Congratulations. 28cm??? You're a pornstar. Remember, in this house we trust only one deity: ICE. Ice and ascend. Amen and congratulations again.

Welcome to the bionic brotherhood.

Don't forget - ICE.