harvey6389@att.net wrote:My question is this: why does nearly every post recommend needle depth standard1/2 inch? This seems to as in my case to be not only bad advise but sure to cause penile scarring infrequently to the penile artery and almost always to the penile septum which provlolks dorsal peyronies. My theory is, since in my case, on stretch my penis is about one inch in diameter. Using a half inch needle would put it dead center of the septum and possibly piercing the artery scarring both simultainiouslly. Common sense, half of one inch, 1/2, right? Half of that 1/4 inch the artery. Someone please correct me.
My first dose of bi-mix was in 1986. 29 gauge 1/2”.
Last injection was in Dec 2019, it was Quadmix (although I couldn’t tell that adding atropine did anything) using the same.
You ask why nearly every post recommend a 1/2” needle. The short answer is because that is what works best.
In my case the few misfires I had (I’m guessing about 10 out of almost 5,000 injections) it was because I was trying to be clever and use a 5/16” needle.
Yeah I am somewhat girthy but we aren’t talking beer can thick. But I had to be lucky and really stab to penetrate tunica with 5/16”.
After injecting that many times you could tell where you are by feel. 1/2” puts you into the corpora cavernosa. 5/16” might but not always.
A 29 gauge sounds worse than a 30 or 31 but reality is you need the rigidity to get thru tunica cleanly.
As far as scarring, I asked my surgeon to evaluate mine since I had been on shots for so long (roughly 32-33 years). He told me in recovery I was clean, no scarring, no problems.
