A New Reality

[gregorbehr]

YAYAYAYAY, congrats buddy. So glad it went well!

Greg

[Steven1111]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the warm welcome to the Brotherhood... It fees good to be a member finally. You sound like you've had a great experience with your Titan and I hope for the same with my AMS CX. I woke up in a lot more pain today then I had been in and I'm not sure why but maybe I've been too active. Just walking some in the gardens to stay healthy, but I've also been laying down a lot too. Gotta take it easy I guess. And more ice!

Hope you and your wife celebrate many more years of wedded bliss.
Steve

[Steven1111]

Hey Greg,

How nice to hear from you! Thanks so much for the good wishes and expressions of happiness from you. I really appreciate it. How are you doing? I hope you're healing up well and getting ready for your next try whenever you're able to. I think about you often and hope things are going better for you. I'm doing well with my healing so far, but still in pain too of course. And I'm a lot smaller, tho I expect that'll change as I pump it up and use it some in a few weeks time when my doc approves it. I can hardly wait...

take good care of yourself my friend,
Steve

[Steven1111]

Day 6 since the implant and things seem to be going very well. I'm not swollen anymore so I can feel what's what down there and can feel my balls and the pump and even the deflate button, which I'm steering clear of... The pump is resting on the base of my scrotum which is where the doctor said he wanted it tho he said to tug it down. But there's no place to tug it so I guess I get to miss out on that pain. Good. But the ball is so heavy feeling it's like it's weighing down my scrotum too much and it hurts quite a bit. It feels so good to hold the jock strap off everything and cup my pump in my hands to take the pressure off for a bit now and then. And to lie down a lot instead of sitting or walking, which I do too to stay mobile and limber.

I see my doc a week friday and have a few questions for him. One will of course be about length and such. When I stretched myself out before the surgery I was about 5 ½ “ but after the surgery I could only get to about 4”. Quite a loss, but expecte so I'm not upset, just curious. So today after it's not swollen and it's been warmed up in a few hot showers I can stretch it out to almost 4 ½ “ without pumping yet. I take this as a good sign. I can feel the loose skin over my cock sliding up and down it and across too. So I think I have plenty of room to strecth it out in both width and length if it'll do it. I assume once I start to pump it up that'll happen. I sure hope so..

I'm still taking 2 x 4mg dilaudid every 6 hours, down from 2 every 4 hours yesterday. I take a bunch of morphine and dilaudid both on a daily basis for chronic pain so I'm just taking more of it now instead of any other meds and it's working well, but I have to cut back cause I'm using the extra I saved up from my usual allotment for this surgery. I'm so glad I did. It's helping me a lot but it's time to cut back so I don't run out. Ibuprofen messes with my stomach so I can't take that, darnit...

All in all I think I'm very happy tho in pain and uncomfortable. But it's been less than a week so it feels like good progress to me. I'm grateful to all the guys on here who’ve been so supportive of me in this surgry, both before and after. It's a great site and resource and we're lucky to have it. Thank you all.

Cheers,
Steve

[Bionic_by_AMS]

When I stretched myself out before the surgery I was about 5 ½ “ but after the surgery I could only get to about 4”. Quite a loss, but expecte so I'm not upset, just curious. So today after it's not swollen and it's been warmed up in a few hot showers I can stretch it out to almost 4 ½ “ without pumping yet. I take this as a good sign. I can feel the loose skin over my cock sliding up and down it and across too. So I think I have plenty of room to strecth it out in both width and length if it'll do it. I assume once I start to pump it up that'll happen.

You can't really judge your size that way now (by stretching) since the Implant does not really allow your penis to stretch as it did before. While at the URO ask him what size cylinders were used ... that is what determines your length. The "CX" model does not expand lengthwise ... although you will see some as the cylinders fill with fluid. However the CX model uses stiffer cylinders (material) so given your intended use, it should work out better for you.

Don't stress so much on the "size" and focus more on the positives ... that it will "get up" each and every time ... no more disappointments. The best thing you can do for your size ... is to reduce your "fat pad" this will give you more "usable" length.

[Steven1111]

Thanks for your feedback. I'm really Not stressing on size that much. As I said I expected to lose length so I'm not upset, just curious as to what things will look like when I do pump it up. I know the CX doesn't expand length wise, but I assume that when you pump it up that there is more fluid in the cylinders so that would make you longer in itself, tho it doesn't exactly "Stretch " you, right? It seems like it would "fill you up" wouldn't it, and that would make you bigger in itself. I will ask my doc what size cylinders he used, it's on my list in fact... And I am focusing on the positives as far as I can with the pain. I'm happy as I said with the results and will be happy whatever length I turn out to be. But I would like it to be a little longer I'll admit. Don't most guys feel this way? Seems to be true - from all the posts I've read it's about the most asked question there is. So I think I'm just responding normally to the situation. I don''t expect miracles, just to be bigger when I have an erection. I think that's realistic to expect isn't it? Anyway, I'm focusing on my healing right now and will worry about the rest of it when I get there. I was just asking for some more input on the CX since there's so little posted about it compared to the LGX or the Titan. I wish more guys with the CX would post their experiences. Now I have more info. and that helps me. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Steve
PS. I've lost a few pounds in the last week alone, tho I don't know if I can keep it off, but I don't have much "fat pad" to begin with so I guess it'll look like it does as it is. That's cool. Shaving helps you look bigger too btw...

[Dave92014]

I have the CX and I don't have any appreciable change in length from flacid to erect. I don't think there can be any. I can feel my cylinders when flacid and they protrud about half way into the head. So since the CX cylinder length is not going to change, that means the penis length won't either.

Regarding the pain in the scrotum, my doc had me wear two pair of the Jockey pouch shorts as two pair at the same time gives more support to the scrotum during the healing phase. He also had me put a couple of 4 inch surgical pads between the two pair to cause them to support the scrotum even better. However, the surgical pads caused the whole thing to rub my legs when I walked so I discontinued the pads a few days after surgery. I asked him how long I should wear the pouch shorts and he said "as long as you have pain". I wore two pair for a few weeks and then dropped back to one pair.

From what you say you are well on the road to bionic happiness.

Dave

[rlm1818]

I have the CX and I don't have any appreciable change in length from flacid to erect. I don't think there can be any. I can feel my cylinders when flacid and they protrud about half way into the head. So since the CX cylinder length is not going to change, that means the penis length won't either.
Dave

I have a Titan OTR, not a CX, but both are similar in that they don't stretch lengthwise. However, the difference between flaccid and erect is about 0.75" for me. For a few other Titan owners I've read about, its closer to an inch. In the flaccid state, my Titan collapses a little and even has a slight kink near the base. The effect of that is to make the flaccid a bit shorter than when erect. I would think the same could happen for at least some CX people.

In my case the tips of the cylinders are also about halfway into the glans in the flaccid state. When fully erect, there might be a fractional additional movement of the cylinder tips into the glans. (Actually, I think the cylinders always stay within the cavernosa, and it is the cavernosa that extend into the glans.)

[Steven1111]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for writing again and providing me with some definitive facts. I guess I'm a bit taken aback by realizing that I won't get any bigger when erect than when I'm flaccid. I thought even the CX allowed for that. I can also feel the cylinders well into the head of my penis so I think I was sized correctly. I'll go back to my original expectations that I'd be much smaller and just enjoy it. I'm very happy that I'll get hard again and so is my partner. I'll be Ok, because it doesn't really take a big cock to satisfy a gay man with anal sex because it's pretty easy to reach the prostate, that source of such heavenly pleasure...

I am also wearing a tight jock strap and jockey pouch underwear and they help a lot. But it still gets tiring and I want to take it all off now and then and just lie in the wind. It feels good to just relax now and then for a few minutes.

Thanks again for all of your assistance and knowledge based on your own experience. It helps a lot.
Cheers,
Steve

[Steven1111]

Hi Rim,

Thanks for writing. Geez, now I'm confused again. You say that you do gain something when you're erect with your Titan. That's what I expected with the CX. Not a lot but at least a little bit. So I guess I'll just have to wait and see since it'll be up to my anatomy in the end I suppose, that and the CX cylinders. Time will tell as I heal up and can finally pump it up at 4 weeks time. Maybe then I'll see something different. I'll ask my doc next week what he thinks. I never had that conversation with him because I read so many posts on here that said you got bigger in most circumstances, and I also expected to lose something, just not an inch and a half! I don't have any scarring or prior problems, just a normal healthy cock. I'm sure things will work out well regardless so I'm very happy.

Thanks again for your comments and your experience. It's encouraging.
Best to you,
Steve