jl33ur wrote:Hello, greetings, could people under 40 implanted years of age respond to this post and what situation did they have before making the decision?
My current situation is venous leakage, 31 years old, I don't respond to almost anything... just a little with 100mg viagra but the erection is lost over time and caverject 20mg is maintained but it is not rigid enough... I am considering prostheses Rigicon brand next year. A lot of fear and uncertainty, I think the most difficult decision of my life.
I was implanted much later in life than 40 but I think my input is on point.
Suffering from ED (venous leakage) for decades before recognizing what it was, I would have had the implant in my mid to late 30s if I knew then what I know now. My clinical condition was that I had to maintain constant stimulation to maintain an erection. Eventually the stimulation required to maintain an erection (the floor) approached the stimulation that would result in orgasm (the ceiling), ejaculation and refractory collapse of the erection. So, every time I had sex it was a race to keep the erection up before the "window of opportunity" between the floor and the ceiling closed.
Needless to say, my frustration and the frustration of my partners did not help during the foreplay required to even start the erectile process.
I took the oral medications, which worked well enough for many years until they lost effectiveness. I eschewed injections and urethral suppositories and used a VED (Vacuum Erection Device) for sex only twice (unsatisfactorily) and for a year therapeutically (to maintain penile health, elasticity and size) while arranging for a surgeon acceptable to me.
If your ED is truly due to venous leakage rather than some other cause (arterial insufficiency, anxiety, smoking, diabetes, blood pressure, etc) I would counsel implantation. Just be sure. I took that step ony after determining that my sex life would/could not get any worse than it was, even if I never had another erection again for the rest of my life.
If you are at that point, that even if your penis fell off, things would not be any worse but that if the operation were a success, you would feel restored, go for it.
Here is an answer I posted in another thread some time ago that I think is also on point, especially with regard to how your partner(s) might feel about their lover being implanted. Some women might (it is speculated here on Franktalk) feel the naturalness of a spontaneous erection is more important than the quality of that erection.
Forty years ago, my erections were adequate for sex, but rarely lasted long enough for my full satisfaction and almost never long enough for my partners' satisfaction. I got orgasms reliably and penetrative coitus but my girlfriends almost never did. But I was able to satisfy most of them by other means. But, still, I did not ever get married. Was that by my choice or theirs? And if theirs, because of the sex? At what point from my 30s to my 70s would I (should I) have opted for an implant? For me, the answer is sooner rather than later. For you, I do not know. How important is it to your partner that your erections spontaneously self-erect under your lover's ministrations. Would sexual activities other than penis action be satisfactory? Just a few of the physical factors. Then there are the emotional/relationship factors. Many people do not place all that much importance on sex compared to other factors in their relationships.
Like I said, it is a HIGHLY personal question and I cannot answer for anyone other than me. Hard even for me to answer for myself except in retrospect. As it was, when the opportunity for an implant (I had been using oral medications for a couple decades-to less and less effectiveness over the years) presented itself, the answer was easy. Unequivocally "Yes".