Pump bulb
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SunsetEyes1977
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Pump bulb
This thing gets easier to pump right? I might need to start forearm exercises again lol.
46 yr old. Married swinger. Implanted AMS 700 in Nov 2023. ED started in mid 40's with diabetes. TriMix worked but had scar tissue.
Re: Pump bulb
It does get easier with use - and faster with frequent use. Early on I was switching hands for relief - but now I can pump with either hand - sure helps no matter what the other hand is doing 
Somewhere on the journey after prostate cancer surgery 2019 - AMS 15/5 IPP 2 years later - saved by a very supportive wife and a great surgery team at Johns Hopkins.
Re: Pump bulb
SunsetEyes1977 wrote:This thing gets easier to pump right? I might need to start forearm exercises again lol.
The pump bulb is stiffer when it's new. I use my right index finger on the side of the finger between the knuckle and the first bend in the finger and the lower part of my thumb below the knuckle, that way you are using your forearm muscles rather than the finger muscles. It makes it a lot easier to pump and allows you to get more half pumps in when the tubes get full and you've let you tissues stretch a little bit.
S-Works
Age 66, Garden Ridge Texas, Boston Scientific Rezum procedure for benign enlarged prostate 19 May 21, AMS LGX 18cm with 3cm RT's installed 5 Nov 2021 by Dr Shane Barney, San Antonio, Texas, Married 36 years. Dick of the Day pg75 and pg131
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ThailandBound
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Re: Pump bulb
I’m 10+ months postop. Titan classic pump. I can only pump up to about 60% 1-handed. Gotta finish the task two handed. Hand over hand. I’m no weakling either. I can’t imagine having grip-strength issues and doing this.
I used to worry about pump failure. Still do. But now i worry about hand failure!
I used to worry about pump failure. Still do. But now i worry about hand failure!
Active, athletic 63 years old. Sexually, still 33 in my mind and spirit. Pills and injections all worked, until they didn’t. Diagnosed with veinous leakage in 2022. Coloplast Titan. 22 CM. No RTE. Peno-scrotal. Implanted 1/4/23. Dr. Clavell.
Re: Pump bulb
ThailandBound wrote:I’m 10+ months postop. Titan classic pump. I can only pump up to about 60% 1-handed. Gotta finish the task two handed. Hand over hand. I’m no weakling either. I can’t imagine having grip-strength issues and doing this.
I used to worry about pump failure. Still do. But now i worry about hand failure!
Titan here.
It was a good year and a half before I started feeling that the pump was getting softer. Now, at 4+ years, nice and soft.
And yes, for those with newer Titan implants, adding hand and forearm strengthening will help. As well as a dry hand and scrotum.
Cycle twice a day...every day...a MUST.
If you must, use the two hand/thumb-over-thumb method to squeeze the bulb.
stmfttr
78 - Married 54 years - Coloplast Titan, 22cm and no RTE's - Installed June 2019 Nebraska Medicine, Dr. Deibert (urologist/surgeon)
Update: Replaced implant due to pump failure. New implant Nov.19th, 2024 - Coloplast Titan w/OTR pump - 22cm + 1cm RTE
Update: Replaced implant due to pump failure. New implant Nov.19th, 2024 - Coloplast Titan w/OTR pump - 22cm + 1cm RTE
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ThailandBound
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Re: Pump bulb
stmfttr wrote:ThailandBound wrote:I’m 10+ months postop. Titan classic pump. I can only pump up to about 60% 1-handed. Gotta finish the task two handed. Hand over hand. I’m no weakling either. I can’t imagine having grip-strength issues and doing this.
I used to worry about pump failure. Still do. But now i worry about hand failure!
Titan here.
It was a good year and a half before I started feeling that the pump was getting softer. Now, at 4+ years, nice and soft.
And yes, for those with newer Titan implants, adding hand and forearm strengthening will help. As well as a dry hand and scrotum.
Cycle twice a day...every day...a MUST.
If you must, use the two hand/thumb-over-thumb method to squeeze the bulb.
stmfttr
Exactly!
Active, athletic 63 years old. Sexually, still 33 in my mind and spirit. Pills and injections all worked, until they didn’t. Diagnosed with veinous leakage in 2022. Coloplast Titan. 22 CM. No RTE. Peno-scrotal. Implanted 1/4/23. Dr. Clavell.
Re: Pump bulb
stmfttr wrote:If you must, use the two hand/thumb-over-thumb method to squeeze the bulb.
stmfttr
That's exactly what I've done from day one.
Venous Leakage (which I believe caused by my overuse of the Bathmate VED)
Dr. Clavell, August, 2022. Titan One-Touch, 24cm XL cylinders and trimmed off 0.5cm
Dr. Clavell, August, 2022. Titan One-Touch, 24cm XL cylinders and trimmed off 0.5cm
