How do you know if the implant failed?

[Johnm1]

I haven't even taken it out for a test drive yet and don't anticipate any issues but ... I read about the failures and got to wondering. What actually fails and how do you know? It doesn't pump up? It doesn't deflate? Something else?

[nerdynerd]

From the posts I have read here, the most common failure is the inability to inflate due to either a failure with the pump or a leak in the tubing. I don't remember reading about anyone who had a problem deflating, but I haven'r read all of the thousands of posts.

[Tmansdorfer]

The failures that I have had are that the pump runs out of fluid and doesn’t fill back up , also the cylinder came out into scrotum and I could feel a large bulge in the scrotum that got bigger when I pumped it up

[Rider1400]

I’ve read on this sigh for years and seems you can develop a leak weather it’s in a tubing,pump or resivour. Probably no way to know which till after it’s removed. Either way it just pumps and runs out of fluid. Dr Eid stated in a video that he’s only seen one failure in the actual implant in all his years and that’s 1000s of implants. Issues are mostly in the tubing, pump and resivour..

[JohnHC]

I've had 2 failures. First implanted in April 2023 and about 8 days or so after the operation ( they leave you partially inflated ) it leaked down and you could hear the air in the system because if the squishing it did as you tried to pump it up. Re-implanted in June. This failure on my second unit, no warning - worked Tuesday like normal, went to pump it up Thursday evening and got maybe 5 pumps before the bulb flattened out. First was a pinhole leak in the left cylinder that leaked out the fluid, this one - who knows? Won't find out till they remove it and test it, but it definitely has leaked but from where isn't known. I just know I didn't cause it as I don't ride bikes, or do any kind of power lifting or anything that could even remotely cause any kind of damage down there. It's always been the way my luck runs, I've had 4 back surgeries, I've had 4 stricture surgeries, heck maybe my body thinks we got to do this in 4's ( I hope the heck not )