How does Cycling affect size?

[Stampede]

thanks for all the replies!

So in short: nobody here has a clue? We got some assumptions about cylinders stretching and softening and we got some 3% numbers, which both would not explain a length increase of 1-2 inches if we talking a few weeks after surgery vs. a year after surgery. Then we have Eid who said, cylinders dont stretch in length.

Intersting. cycling for sure works to get your length back, I dont doubt that, but nobody can explain why?

[Discovernew]

There are others who can explain it better than me, but my personal experience is this:

I was implanted June 3, and after 6 weeks I began cycling. It was just over 5 inches erect. Yikes. I was 6 7/8 pre-op.

But cycling is showing growth in both girth and length. On Sept 3 I was about 6 inches erect. I plan to measure only once per month, bone-pressed from the top. The side measure is not correct and will add false length.

You are stretching and softening the cylinders and your little friend as you cycle and stretch it all out. Plus, I think cycling is fun now. It hurt and was difficult for the first month.

From what I have seen on FT, a dedicated cycle for 12 months should get you back to at least close to your pre-op length. Size varies, so maybe a little less and maybe a little more.

Hi happycamper, i am wondering how your size is nowadays, 6 months after this post?

[Discovernew]

thanks for all the replies!

So in short: nobody here has a clue? We got some assumptions about cylinders stretching and softening and we got some 3% numbers, which both would not explain a length increase of 1-2 inches if we talking a few weeks after surgery vs. a year after surgery. Then we have Eid who said, cylinders dont stretch in length.

Intersting. cycling for sure works to get your length back, I dont doubt that, but nobody can explain why?

Stampede, how are you doing now, several months after your surgery, did you recover any length at all?

Edit: By the way, regarding your original post about the science behind gaining size. Personally i do not understand it myself either. I know for sure the regular implants do not expand in size (i have inflated them myself at the doctors table and they actually do not grow).

However, what i can imagine is that maybe the penis retracts and wants to "hide" in the body due to the trauma of the surgery, and over time it losens up a little bit so that more of the part that is inside of the body can come out (as we all have a big part of the implant inside of the body). Also maybe with time the penis engorges better and is able to regain some size due to engorgement. But except for that, i do not know. Really 1 inch or 2.5cm is a lot of length to gain from a non-expanding implant.

[jakerip]

Stampede was implanted 3 days before me. I was implanted 9/12/2024. I informed my doctor I will be cycling very aggressively and to ensure that I will not run out of fluid from my reservoir.
Stampede is 30 YO studly looking dude.
I am 67 YO that endured months of atrophy after COVID affected numerous aspects of my body.
I plan to contribute to this thread over the coming months. I am working on my journal so stay tuned for updates.
One way or another I will find out how cycling contributes or not to my personal progress.
I love a challenge so game on!

Hey man...I'm curious to know how cycling helped your progress. I'm also curious to understand what you're saying here about running out of fluid in the reservoir. I'm 6 months out and have run out of fluid. I cycled regularly.

[Discovernew]

Stampede was implanted 3 days before me. I was implanted 9/12/2024. I informed my doctor I will be cycling very aggressively and to ensure that I will not run out of fluid from my reservoir.
Stampede is 30 YO studly looking dude.
I am 67 YO that endured months of atrophy after COVID affected numerous aspects of my body.
I plan to contribute to this thread over the coming months. I am working on my journal so stay tuned for updates.
One way or another I will find out how cycling contributes or not to my personal progress.
I love a challenge so game on!

Hey man...I'm curious to know how cycling helped your progress. I'm also curious to understand what you're saying here about running out of fluid in the reservoir. I'm 6 months out and have run out of fluid. I cycled regularly.

Hey Jakerip, he probably meant to top him up with some extra fluid to make sure he will not run out. I know doctors do that especially for big penises like yours.

If the doctor feels you need more than is allowed in the reservoir, he will leave some extra fluid in the implant itself just in case.

For example is your reservoir is 110cc but doctor feels you might need 130cc, he would leave 20 extra in the implant.

If you feel you have run out of fluid but you would like more. I'm sure topping you up with more fluid is a relatively simple procedure.

[jakerip]

Stampede was implanted 3 days before me. I was implanted 9/12/2024. I informed my doctor I will be cycling very aggressively and to ensure that I will not run out of fluid from my reservoir.
Stampede is 30 YO studly looking dude.
I am 67 YO that endured months of atrophy after COVID affected numerous aspects of my body.
I plan to contribute to this thread over the coming months. I am working on my journal so stay tuned for updates.
One way or another I will find out how cycling contributes or not to my personal progress.
I love a challenge so game on!

Hey man...I'm curious to know how cycling helped your progress. I'm also curious to understand what you're saying here about running out of fluid in the reservoir. I'm 6 months out and have run out of fluid. I cycled regularly.

Hey Jakerip, he probably meant to top him up with some extra fluid to make sure he will not run out. I know doctors do that especially for big penises like yours.

If the doctor feels you need more than is allowed in the reservoir, he will leave some extra fluid in the implant itself just in case.

For example is your reservoir is 110cm but doctor feels you might need 130cm, he would leave 20 extra in the implant.

If you feel you have run out of fluid but you would like more. I'm sure topping you up with more fluid is a relatively simple procedure.

Ahh ok. Thanks for that. I had no idea that adding more fluid was possible without going in and replacing the reservoir. That's good to know. It's too bad my doc was Karaman. I suppose any local implant doc could do it though.

So you know if air bubbles cause issues? I hear this squeaking as I pump. Is that the case for you as well?

[Discovernew]

Hey man...I'm curious to know how cycling helped your progress. I'm also curious to understand what you're saying here about running out of fluid in the reservoir. I'm 6 months out and have run out of fluid. I cycled regularly.

Hey Jakerip, he probably meant to top him up with some extra fluid to make sure he will not run out. I know doctors do that especially for big penises like yours.

If the doctor feels you need more than is allowed in the reservoir, he will leave some extra fluid in the implant itself just in case.

For example is your reservoir is 110cm but doctor feels you might need 130cm, he would leave 20 extra in the implant.

If you feel you have run out of fluid but you would like more. I'm sure topping you up with more fluid is a relatively simple procedure.

Ahh ok. Thanks for that. I had no idea that adding more fluid was possible without going in and replacing the reservoir. That's good to know. It's too bad my doc was Karaman. I suppose any local implant doc could do it though.

So you know if air bubbles cause issues? I hear this squeaking as I pump. Is that the case for you as well?

Yep the rigicon pump is squeaky. There is not supposed to be any air inside, doctors make sure to remove all air from the system. But it still makes a bit of squeaky noise. It's common.

Adding fluid probably involves opening your scrotum (but not your cavernosa) cutting open the tube that goes to the reservoir, injecting the fluid, and then reconnecting the tube. I know this is possible because I had a revision where my implant was changed but reservoir was the same, they just reconnected it to the new implant. And new fluid was topped up to make sure the right amount was in. So just filling up the reservoir without changing anything should be doable too.

Who knows, maybe you still have more growth left on the table if you had more fluid to work with.

[jakerip]

Hey Jakerip, he probably meant to top him up with some extra fluid to make sure he will not run out. I know doctors do that especially for big penises like yours.

If the doctor feels you need more than is allowed in the reservoir, he will leave some extra fluid in the implant itself just in case.

For example is your reservoir is 110cm but doctor feels you might need 130cm, he would leave 20 extra in the implant.

If you feel you have run out of fluid but you would like more. I'm sure topping you up with more fluid is a relatively simple procedure.

Ahh ok. Thanks for that. I had no idea that adding more fluid was possible without going in and replacing the reservoir. That's good to know. It's too bad my doc was Karaman. I suppose any local implant doc could do it though.

So you know if air bubbles cause issues? I hear this squeaking as I pump. Is that the case for you as well?

Yep the rigicon pump is squeaky. There is not supposed to be any air inside, doctors make sure to remove all air from the system. But it still makes a bit of squeaky noise. It's common.

Adding fluid probably involves opening your scrotum (but not your cavernosa) cutting open the tube that goes to the reservoir, injecting the fluid, and then reconnecting the tube. I know this is possible because I had a revision where my implant was changed but reservoir was the same, they just reconnected it to the new implant. And new fluid was topped up to make sure the right amount was in. So just filling up the reservoir without changing anything should be doable too.

Who knows, maybe you still have more growth left on the table if you had more fluid to work with.

Thanks man. I will definitely pass on the adding of fluid. I'm willing to leave any possible size increase on the table to avoid another incision. That and I can't afford it anyway. Greed can lead to disastrous outcomes. I'm ok with where it is.

That said, I will keep cycling with the hopes it helps with the cylinder tips. I'd imagine that it'll at least make more room for engorgement.

Does your new implant squeak? Are things progressing well at this point?

[Discovernew]

Ahh ok. Thanks for that. I had no idea that adding more fluid was possible without going in and replacing the reservoir. That's good to know. It's too bad my doc was Karaman. I suppose any local implant doc could do it though.

So you know if air bubbles cause issues? I hear this squeaking as I pump. Is that the case for you as well?

Yep the rigicon pump is squeaky. There is not supposed to be any air inside, doctors make sure to remove all air from the system. But it still makes a bit of squeaky noise. It's common.

Adding fluid probably involves opening your scrotum (but not your cavernosa) cutting open the tube that goes to the reservoir, injecting the fluid, and then reconnecting the tube. I know this is possible because I had a revision where my implant was changed but reservoir was the same, they just reconnected it to the new implant. And new fluid was topped up to make sure the right amount was in. So just filling up the reservoir without changing anything should be doable too.

Who knows, maybe you still have more growth left on the table if you had more fluid to work with.

Thanks man. I will definitely pass on the adding of fluid. I'm willing to leave any possible size increase on the table to avoid another incision. That and I can't afford it anyway. Greed can lead to disastrous outcomes. I'm ok with where it is.

That said, I will keep cycling with the hopes it helps with the cylinder tips. I'd imagine that it'll at least make more room for engorgement.

Does your new implant squeak? Are things progressing well at this point?

All my pumps squeaqued a bit (it is not loud though, only in a completely silent room you would hear it).

I am still in recovery and have some time to go. Praying that eventually things will work out for me.

[LetoMan]

So in short: nobody here has a clue?

Haha, I’m not sure where you got that. Most guys gave you the standard explanation.

My doc put it like this: the “cylinders” are really balloons. They are designed to stretch when filled, to essentially fill the space they have been given. If you put a ballon inside a rubber tube and inflate it, it will expand to the limits of the tube and not further.

The rubber tube is essentially the tissues in your penis, most notably the tunica.

But, if over time you stretch out the rubber tube so that it gives more, the balloon will be able to expand more. And one of the ways you can expand the rubber tube is by having the balloon regularly pushing against it from the inside, slowly stretching the rubber tube itself.

Guys with ED have rubber tubes that have shrunk some due to not being stretched out regularly for a period of time. But they can be stretched again, by pumping up the implant on a regular basis, and/or by using a vacuum device.

That’s it, it’s pretty simple.

Guys have different results because they have different bodies. Some guys get an inch or two. Some guys get nothing. Personally I’ve grown about half an inch. I’m generally not attentive to my overall size numbers, though, I just like having a hard dick. And I don’t usually “cycle” for the sake of cycling. Instead I just actively use my dick. Most days where I don’t fuck I masturbate, or I pump it up to take a picture of it for one of my female friends, or whatever.

I think the cycling advice is mostly for guys that wouldn’t otherwise be pumping it up every day.

Be well,
Leto