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I had my AMS 700 pump installed in 08/2011 and have never had issues until two days ago. I pumped one time and the ball would not re-fill. I then pressed the deflate button and the ball did re-fill. After attempting this same procedure several times this was the only action I could get out of my implant. Does any one in this group have any experience with the AMS 700 implant? Any information at all would be great!

I had problems after 10 months of my revision. But mine started acting up from the start. It seemed to me like the valve on the MS pump would get stuck, then it would make like a popping sound and it would work. Finally it completely stopped working. I had a partial revision in Feb 2019 and everything seems to be working perfect now. I went into surgery thinking they were only going to change the MS pump even though I could tell he did not like to just change the pump. He told me that AMS would not let them do that. So I called the representative for AMS and they said that they did not mind a partial as long as it was less then five years the last operation I had. So on the last surgery they did not replace the cylinders, he just pulled them more into the gland so the tips would be right around the center, but he told me they replaced the MS pump and they also installed a bigger reservoir. Replaced the rte's to the correct length. But the surgeon still would not admit that it was a bad MS pump. Even though I am a retired mechanical engineer and understand exactly how these things work. He said he still did not know what caused the failure. Maybe to protect AMS or maybe to protect the previous surgeon, but I never got a straight answer. He done a great job on this revision. I was all healed up within three weeks.

So, you are not able to inflate the implant to a full (or even partial) erection?

You need to get that MS pump replaced. Pretty sure that is the problem. Simple operation if they do just that, but sometimes these surgeon will do more.

But if the ball stays collapsed the valve is not resetting itself. It got stuck on the open position and will not hold the saline that is pushed into the cylinders. Pretty sure that is what happened with mine.

Contact Jamie. She's an AMS patient service specialist. If anyone can walk you through getting a pump to work again (unless it truly is broken) it's her. I've spoken with her before and she was a big help. All numbers listed below are her work numbers BTW. Hope this helps.

Jamie Matson, RN
AMS Patient Service Specialist
(952)930-6261 Office
(303)591-8599 Cell

Jamie is nice in a world full of idiots. Very helpful. I asked for my old pump beca use I wanted to cut it apart and study it. I was told it is not allowed. AMS, now Boston Scientific, soon to be who knows next like Coloplast, is well known to have glitchy pumps. I learned to deflate mine again and try over if it did not work or squeeze as hard as I could from the wrong sides to break it loose to work. Plastic does not make a real good medium for a hydraulic pump. Expands and contracts more than metals and hangs up more due to distortions. If any other manufacturer of a product produced with such a reliability record, it would be recalled. My Titan pump gets a spell once in a while, but nothing like the Asthmatic Mental Select-a-sex pump did.

RayChez wrote: I was all healed up within three weeks.

A bummer to realize an AMS defect is even possible...after all the pomp and circumstance leading up to and including the surgery and then 6 weeks of healing before activation, what an extreme drag it would be to find out the unit was defective and you have to go thru all that yet again !

Lost Sheep wrote:So, you are not able to inflate the implant to a full (or even partial) erection?

Not at all! I am in a pickle...No fun for me (or my wife).

RayChez wrote:You need to get that MS pump replaced. Pretty sure that is the problem. Simple operation if they do just that, but sometimes these surgeon will do more.

But if the ball stays collapsed the valve is not resetting itself. It got stuck on the open position and will not hold the saline that is pushed into the cylinders. Pretty sure that is what happened with mine.

If you don't mind me asking...what specifically went wrong with yours and what was it doing or not doing?

Lunatech wrote:Contact Jamie. She's an AMS patient service specialist. If anyone can walk you through getting a pump to work again (unless it truly is broken) it's her. I've spoken with her before and she was a big help. All numbers listed below are her work numbers BTW. Hope this helps.

Jamie Matson, RN
AMS Patient Service Specialist
(952)930-6261 Office
(303)591-8599 Cell

AWESOME!!! Thank you very much for the info.