G'day

[Eveready]

After years of little but oral sex - which is by no means bad, but man and woman cannot live on caviar alone - I finally took up the ED question with the urologist I'd been sent to with elevated PSA levels. "First we'd better see how your prostate is ..."

8 months later, sans prostate, I'm 2 and a bit weeks into packing a concealed weapon in my trousers. The bride liked the look of the 60% inflation that I've endured until yesterday - but don't touch it yet, dear. Nurse struggled to find the valve yesterday, but eventually managed it, and so let it deflate a little.

Chewed some Viagra & used a pump to maintain blood flow in the interim, but from the time of the cancer diagnosis we were only going one way: the hydraulic engineering solution.

I'm supposed to be cycling it twice a day, but the deflation is a-killing feckin sore as all me boy-parts get used to another something new. And, between the swelling in the nuts and the cold Melbourne weather scrotum tightness, the valve is damned hard to get to at the moment. Hope that the 90 degree kink that's formed isn't permanent. Still, if it is I'll be able to surreptitiously piss on the bloke standing next to me at the footy, so it won't be all bad.

Cheers
Ken

[Bionic_by_AMS]

Eveready,
Welcome to the Bionic Brotherhood ...

For the scrotum tightness ... try sitting in a hot bath ... it works wonders!

[Eveready]

You are so right, AMS!
It's interesting to read others' experiences of using cold packs to soothe themselves: my one attempt at that left me in agony. Heat, on the other hand, has helped me a lot.
And that's just one aspect of the enormous range of our experiences of symptoms & treatment.