mike123 wrote:My own experience, your mileage may vary.
Before my implant, I was limited sessions lasting no more than about a minute. I had to come within that time or I would lose my erection and wouldn't come at all. When things got worse and I couldn't get hard enough for penetrative sex at all, I got the implant (after all the other treatments failed).
After the implant, there are no more limits to how long my wife and I can go. I'm limited to one orgasm, but I don't need to stop when I reach that point. After a pause of several seconds, we're able to start back up again. My wife is highly orgasmic and will orgasm several times in sessions lasting up to an hour or sometimes or more. I could never come close to that as a younger man with a normally functioning dick, so for me, the implant is a definite enhancement.
As many on this forum have said, my regret is not getting the implant years ago and waiting until almost complete impotence before taking the plunge. I missed out on a lot of years of great sex. Others in this thread and elsewhere on the forum have said to wait and keep your partially working dick for as long as it works. I disagree. I gave up too much waiting for as long as I did.
Mike123, my ED history is exactly the same as yours in all the details you gave (except I am not married, by my girlfriend's response is the same as your wife's and at my age, going for an hour is something I will yet have to work up to. I need to get more aerobic exercise to increase my endurance
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Exactly the same until the second half of the last paragraph.
mike123 wrote:Others in this thread and elsewhere on the forum have said to wait and keep your partially working dick for as long as it works. I disagree. I gave up too much waiting for as long as I did.
While I should have gone for the implant a lot sooner (at least 10 years), I could not be sure there was not an actual cure to be had. Implant is not a cure, it is a treatment, albeit a very good one. And, as you point out, actually makes me (and made you) a better "swordsman" than my (or your) natural functioning penis. But the implant operation does render a man functionally and permanently impotent - even more so than before the implant. If the implant should fail, he is like a man who traded bum legs for a rocket-powered wheelchair. For as long as the wheelchair rolls, great. If the wheelchair fails, no go. Until a replacement chair is obtained.
I do not regret my decision to get an implant, nor do I regret waiting until I knew there was no loss if the implant operation went awry. (If I had partial function and the operation was botched or did not work, I would regret the loss of function - but when there was no function to regret losing, I did not hesitate to pursue the implant.)
This is not to be argumentative. Just to present an alternate point of view. If I had known at 50 what I was able to conclude at 66, I would have gone ahead right then and there. But as it was, I did not know for sure that the implant was inevitable and still (in my 50s and 60s) did have some function remaining.