has anyone had an implant removed without replacing it?

[sweaterfan]

Other than being unable to have an erection once removed, were there any other consequences?

[Waynetho]

The answer is YES, it's called "EXPLANTATION". People have chosen to remove but not replace their implants for one reason or another. I can't envision why anyone would do so because they rarely will be able to have any degree of erection afterward, unless they are re-implanted with some sort of device.

As to who if anyone who frequents Frank Talk having made that choice, I would imagine there's someone but doing so in my mind would be almost like giving up and in so doing they probably would no longer post here unless they did so only temporarily for some reason such as infection or complication where the damaged device was injuring them and they couldn't afford a revision to replace it and chose only to remove the old one for now. That's still a bit of a stretch though.

[Waynetho]

Other than being unable to have an erection once removed, were there any other consequences?

Also, to answer your second question, the consequences are

A: no more erections and
B: penile atrophy due to no further erections to stretch the tissues.

To add to "B", the loss of arterial blood flow from the natural erections may also cause tissue atrophy from reduced oxygenation of the tissues so other conditions might set in, such as micropenis, peyronies, buried penis, etc.