I’m going to be about a stone heavier (87kg) than usual (80kg) when I have the implant done next month. I’m worried that when I lose the weight and get back to normal that the recession of fat around the waist will expose the reservoir, poking out of the skin.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Waynetho is sounds as though in your case the end of the corpus covernosa is so far into the glans that it nearly reaches the tip...is that right?

Thanks so much for the feedback all. I spoke further to David Ralph’s team who re-iterated that the cylinders will not go into the glans. They said “Your glans will engorge if it does at the moment”, to which I said if everything engorged properly I wouldn’t need the op in the first place. Despite t...

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