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Due to a motorcycle accident years ago, Im set for surgery on 2/17 with Dr. Eid and getting the Titan OTR implanted. A few final questions for the group before this Friday. Being single, Id like to hear from anyone who has an implant and the experience in dating and telling/not telling a woman. Also if anyone can me their experiences with the following:

After having the implant for a number of months or years, do you always feel its presence?

Can you sleep on your stomach?

Any experience going thru an airport scanner and was it noticed?

Can you have other procedures done without affecting the implant? such as a colonoscopy which I get ever 3 years. The good Dr. said its not a problem but Id like to hear from anyone who has had this done.

Whats your experience on a bicycle or rowing machine when exercising?

THank you for any information before my big day....This group has been very helpful in making my decision to get any implant.

Jerry --

Hope it all goes well for you. As I think you know from PM's with me, I'm scheduled with Dr Eid five days after you. I think we're both having the procedure at the same NYC surgi center. I will be anxious to hear how things go... though I doubt anything I would hear would cause me to abort.

Can't help with your other questions though. I too am currently single (divorced) and have had the experience of telling women about my ED, and most recently about the impending surgery... but that's not your question. What to say after you have the implant, and after you know it works (hopefully), would be quite a different matter, I imagine. I'm inclined to tell future partners if I think there will be an ongoing relationship, though whether to tell in advance or after the first encounter (or two or three) seems like a tactical question.

From what I have read, some of the younger men who are going thru multiple partners do not tell them, and mostly get away with it. I have read of other older (50's+) men who generally tell their partners. As my primary physician said to me recently, any woman in her 40's and up with any experience (or friends with experience) will hardly be surprised to encounter some kind of ED related issue, and many of those women have their own medical issues, sexual related or otherwise, that they may find difficult to talk about too. So opening up about it is often a nice ice-breaker that forms a stronger bond. Not always, though, I'm sure.

Since your new theme song will be "All Day, All Night", I think the rest doesn't matter.

Greg
Baton Rouge

Welcome Jerry,
First of all, best of luck with your upcoming Titan OTR Implant procedure with Dr. Eid.
After developing ED Post-Prostatectomy in February 2004, I underwent the Coloplast Titan Penile Implant Procedure in December 2007. This completely corrected my ED and I have had no problem with it in the past 4+ years.
From my personal experiences, I will attempt to answer some of your questions.

After having the implant for a number of months or years, do you always feel its presence?
After about 6 months it just became part of my body and I do NOT always feel its presence --- feels very natural to me.

Can you sleep on your stomach?
I have no problem sleeping on my stomach or using hamstring machine in the gym which requires lying on my stomach.

Any experience going thru an airport scanner and was it noticed?
I have gone through airport scanners a number of times without incident.

Can you have other procedures done without affecting the implant? such as a colonoscopy which I get ever 3 years. The good Dr. said its not a problem but Id like to hear from anyone who has had this done.
I had a colonoscopy since my Titan Implant with no problem. I'm scheduled every 5 years.

Whats your experience on a bicycle or rowing machine when exercising?
Since my Implant, I have used every machine and free weight in the gym with no problem.
It does not interfere with any of my physical activities.

I hope this has been of some help.

Bob
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Age: 73; Developed ED in February 2004 (After Open Radical Prostatectomy); Pre-op PSA 2.2 with positive DRE; Gleason 3+3=6; Post-op PSA remains undetectable as of 12/13/2011; Implanted December 13, 2007 (Coloplast Titan).

Good Luck guy.. your almost there.

Cajun Jeff

Thanks to all for the responses and encouragement.