Ams700 implanted guys

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How your implant have been working? I'm wery interested to hear good and bad things....

Over 6 years on mine and it still works. That is, it inflates and deflates. I have all the original parts. Not a perfect install and a perforation repair. But the device is still working. I had a sticky pump that caused some trouble and still will every now and then. I hope it lasts the rest of my life.

What kind of perforation repair? Where did it occur? I had thought that if there was erosion anywhere, you would need to have it all replaced. If a repair can be done, that would be comforting.

If you look in my signature at the bottom of my posts you will see it listed as proximal. That is as closer to centerline of the body or point of attachment vs distal as is farthest away from centerline or point of attachment. So, this is deep inside my body. Very difficult to get to. Used to be game over. But then the sling repair was developed. The development of the Brooks dilator has helped reduce the proximal and distal perforations during surgery. They still happen though in cases where there is scar tissue and other difficult dilations to make room for the cylinders where sharp tools need to be used. Or in cases where a doctor does not use a Brooks or other smooth dilator. I had seen a video of one other man that had a proximal perforation from a surgery by the same doctor that did mine. This is a drawing of the sling suture repair. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sut ... _270649537

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Is it now normal to develop these perforations during surgery and they just fix it with the sling technique? Do you feel any instability or unevenness cause of this? I wonder how many patient records show they have such a perforation and need this fixed with the sling. In one of Clavell’s videos, he made it sound like it’s an easy fix but I’m curious if patient notices it.

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The AMS 700 operation overall process and parts worked out well. But my concerns, is the pump. I think their pump is made or ceramic material. It's a rock or a stone. Nothing flexible about the pump. It would be great if the pump was flexible or easier to pump. It's like you need vise grips of a set of cushion pliers to activate the pump. So far the AS700 parts and the operation and healing was a 9 - 10 rating. But the pump bulb, rated a 1, if that. Seven weeks post surgery.

I was implanted January 2nd of this year, inflated until six week mark, but couldn't cycle until about the 12 week mark. And I've been hitting that like my life depended on it. Cycling, Perito in the morning, then cycling and VED in the evening. I'm only down 3/8" of an inch or so at this point. I only lost about 5/8" after surgery and not being able to cycle for so long. I don't bone-press because I think there is tubing or something hard there, but I do measure from the same spot to keep track of relative progress.

Yes, sex partner, you can squirm and move all you want but this dick isn't going anywhere. Man, what a good deal that is.

Yes, the bulb is hard as hell. I have good hand strength and after about the 10 pump mark, I'm using two thumbs on it. I hear it will get broken in, but that apparently doesn't happen in the first 5 weeks for me. Also, mine is too high and crowds my right nut into hiding. It's easily felt below the base of my penis about an inch and very prominent. I'm seeing the surgeon in a few weeks and will discuss a tweak to relocate it. His P.A. said it's a fairly simple procedure relative to the initial surgery.

Please let us know how that goes. It sounds similar to the procedure I am going to have done to fix where I healed improperly to the tubing and pump (which hurts). My pump didn’t “break in” as promised until the 5 month mark, where it suddenly started deflating properly and doesn’t auto-inflate anymore. I hope the break-in process is faster with the brand new AMS pump.

Can I ask what issue you had that needed a fix? Did you end up having another surgery?