Colby-jack__ wrote:Headair123 wrote:I am 3.5 weeks post surgery and I am not allowed to start cycling for another 4.5 weeks - my doctor is worried about my pre-existing scars which may hinder recovery.
He inflated me to about 30%. But, I have been on a trans-Europe business trip for the last week (and will continue to do so till January). I find that I need to deflate my implant during the day while wearing a business suit and having multiple meetings. I re-inflate when I get back to the hotel to what I think is 30%.
I am really worried that I will not achieve my full size potential due to this weird program I am on.
The pain is still there, especially when I change the angle of my penis; when I go to the bathroom, when I take off my underwear for bathing and when I have do any other adjustment.
There is little bit of pain when I walk around naked and 30% inflated, but it disappears after a minute or two.
I really wonder what cycling is going to be like.
Huh, I probably should post this to my thread as well.
I know all Dr's are different.
And I followed mines instructions.
But i don't understand this approach.
Not cycling makes everything stiffen up and heal without stretching... only to then start stretching.
At best this means you have to heal twice but I could easily see how this could result in a shorter end result.
I had to take a week off cycling after my 3rd week and starting back up again was painful and I had to regain my elasticity.
If my dr told me to wait 6 weeks i would ask him if he might consider it ok to start sooner if my pain tolerance is high and I want to give it a try.
Obviously im not a dr. Just a patient.
There seems to be two distinct and fairly common approaches to cycling by surgeons. One is don't inflate post op and start cycling very early. The other is partially inflate the implant for a period of weeks, then "activate" the implant by the Dr fully inflating/deflating. Then you commence cycling.
My doc's approach is similar to yours Headair123. I was left 30% erect for the first 6 weeks before activation, which is awkward for many reasons, and uncomfortable. 30% was actually very erect and quite hard. Luckily I'm retired these days so I didn't need to worry about deflating for work reasons. But I would have had much the same problem as I had a similar working environment. BTW I don't think you need to worry about losing size due to the cycling protocol. After 8 months I've regained my original size and it's been back to that for some time. I've been cycling diligently since 6 weeks, minimum of twice day for 15 minutes. In addition I try and have a one hour plus session on as many days as I can fit it in. I also consider that sex counts as cycling as long as you are fully erect, so that's another three times a week on average for me. You'll be fine but the harder you inflate the more discomfort initially. Just start slowly and build up to what you can comfortably tolerate. I found that I started building up a tolerance after a few weeks and eventually it became quite comfortable unless I was too aggressive. I only start getting uncomfortable now after about an hour if inflated to the absolute max. for that whole time.
ElbowRoom wrote:Thanks for the feedback guys. I guess there's nothing to do but keep cycling, endure it and get to the other side!
Elbow you hit the nail on the head. Everyone here has a different experience and docs follow different protocols. But a common theme is that cycling hurts in the early stages regardless of whether you started a few days or many weeks after surgery. But as everything heals and the tissue stretches it does become far more comfortable.
I note that it does also hurt when you deflate, as someone else said. It's something that doesn't seem to be mentioned very often. That still happens for me if inflated very hard for a reasonable length of time. But it only takes a minute or so to be back to normal once deflated.
